Do I Have To? Baseball Training in Clifton, NJ

Nope… You absolutely don’t have to do anything… EVER!

I just received the video down below from my buddy Zach Even-Esh, the Underground Strength Coach (actually he forwarded it from another genius strength coach, Martin Rooney), and it answers a question that I hear way too many times every day – Do we have to do this? Is it Mandatory or is it Optional?

I used to simply glare at the ballplayers and tell them that they had to do everything that was on their worksheet for the day. Now I simply shrug my shoulders and tell them to do whatever they want…

Does that make me a bad coach? Maybe, but one thing that I can tell you is that the ballplayers that choose the option of doing the harder more challenging work get the results on the field and have the opportunity (hmm, sounds kinda like option, huh?) to play at the higher levels.

Quite frankly, if you choose NOT to put in the extra effort I don’t want you in my workouts and you aren’t going to get very far in your baseball career. I’m sorry, did that offend you? Good! Maybe it’s the eye-opener that you need to get your attitude straight to really advance your career.

Let me point out a few of our ballplayers at the Baseball Strength Academy in Clifton, NJ.

First up are a couple of my college guys that worked out all summer long at 6am… even Saturdays! No, I didn’t require them to workout that early. They requested that time because they had to go out and work to earn the $ to be able to afford the training!

Let’s look at their options: Don’t work hard all summer long -> Don’t have to pay for training -> Don’t have to work to earn the money to pay for training -> Have a relaxing summer hanging out with buddies and having a grand ol time!

Their Other Option – The option that they chose: Sign up for the most intense training they have ever done – Find a summer job that allowed them to pay for the training – Schedule workouts before the sun came up so that they could finish their workouts and still get to work on time – Go to bed earlier then their friends – Miss out on a ton of summer relaxation – Gain 10-15 pounds of Hard Earned Muscle! – Earn an invitation to compete for the starting 1B job at one of the states best baseball programs – Solidify the role of Conference Starter as a Sophomore!

How about one of my softball players that drives an hour each way to take hitting lessons and workout?

She doesn’t get home from school, hitting, & her workout until 10pm or later… then she has to make sure she gets her homework done!

Does she have to do this? Nope, it’s completely optional!

But she has a burning desire to dominate at the high school level and use softball as a tool to go to any college that she chooses. She’s already a great softball player, so why choose to put in all the extra effort and work to get just that little bit better? Because She Can! Good enough isn’t good enough for her. She is settling for nothing less than being the absolute best that she can be and that requires her to make serious sacrifices that are completely optional… but not in her mind!

So, what about you?

Are you choosing the easy way out saying that you are good enough to get by or are you choosing the harder options to put in the extra effort, take the extra BP, field the extra grounders, block the extra pitches, run the extra sprints, lift the extra sets, do that little bit extra -

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra!” – Jimmy Johnson

Are you motivated to choose the harder options and do the extra work?  Are your friends & teammates?  Visit us at Baseball Strength Academy & Hit the facebook “Like” button at the top or bottom of this post and challege your teammates to step up their game and choose the option of make themselves and your team better simply by having the attitude to do whatever it takes to succeed!

Enjoy the video and leave your comments in the section down below!

Dan

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