There's a trendy exercise sweeping weight rooms: trap bar jumps. Coach Mike thinks it's one of the dumbest ideas in sports — and when it showed up in his son's college program, it turned into something bigger. In this episode: why landing with weight in your hands is a problem, what weighted baseballs and donut bats already proved, and the ten-second sentence every young athlete needs to be able to say to a coach, a doctor, or any adult in charge.

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