Inseason Idea

Just a suggestion...

I would do regular squats instead of front squats.

Also pull-ups and its variations are a good workout for your back shoulders and lats. Try adding that to your workout.

I have heard of many people (baseball players) seriously injuring their shoulders from military press...I would stay away from this.

Hope this helps,

B-Rod

The purpose of doing front squats is that they are better preparation for olympic lifting than back squats.

I've never hurt my shoulders by playing ball and doing military presses and I've been doing these since I started lifting when I was 14. I read somewhere that the influx of shoulder injuries has been on the rise when the idea that overhead lifts were bad for you was spread. People stopped overhead lifting and weight lifting in America became "Weiderized" with heavy emphasis on bench and biceps, leading to postural imbalances in the shoulders.

Upstate, you're right about imbalances, but the to balance out the shoulder girdle you need to do some pulling exercises to work the upper back. I wouldn't necissarily say cut out military press, but adding in pullups or lat pulldowns should help balance everything out.

It's too specialized in-season. I certainly like all the lifts but again too specialized.

Military Presses (standing) are fine. The only people who get hurt by this are using too much weight. It's really as simple as that. And anyone who thinks these are bad for the body simply don't understand it...

Jon, how exactly would I "unspecialize"?

More variety. more complexes, larger selection of exercises.

The goal of in-season training is quite simple:

1. Mainatin or slightly improve reactive strength/speed and neurological connection.

2. Recovery/Regeneration work

So for more exercises I will add pull-ups as everyone has recommended. To recover, I do HIIT the day after every game for 10 minutes. I'm not really sure what complexes are, so anything you can tell me about that would be great.