Agree but you forgot arguably the most important exercise for the baseball player! The power clean! Developing the power clean allows the baseball players rate of force development (power) to maintain and go up proportionately with the slower strength exercises. It also teaches timing, coordination, balance, foot speed. If properly taught and learned it is phenomenal and a must for a player looking to stay athletic and quick. The power snatch can also be a great sub and arguably better for the baseball player with the longer range of motion/slightly lighter weight and faster bar speed than the power clean.
I love the part where he says kids come in and say they want to gain weight and they are doing their all but we know they aren’t. Don’t lie to me or yourself man. Great video man
5:30 this is actually brilliant. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the thought process literally helped you build muscle and caused your body to respond.
Great video Matt, and 100% true. The higher up you go in sports, the harder you have to work. My brother is a Doctor of Exercise Physiology who has worked extensively with professional athletes. He’s worked with the Giants, A’s, 49ers, Raiders and Warriors, and the one trait that runs through all the athletes he’s tested, besides being good natural athletes, is that all these players worked their asses off to be the very best they could be. There is no free lunch, even those that take PED’s still have to put in the work. Just wanting to be the best isn’t good enough, it’s the work that makes it happen.
My son did gain 35 lbs went from 145lbs to 180 lbs got his to his Juco school they could believe it. He started playing fall ball and He’s a Huskies player now! It can be done 6 meals a day, no junk food and no skipping and great weightlifting with resistance bands. Thanks for your message!
Could you make a video showing some good workouts to perform at a gym or home to get a better baseball body? I’m looking to try to get stronger before the spring season.
I agree with what you said about the hardgainers not gaining weight...I used to think I was a hard gainer, and while I did have a good metabolism, I wasnt eating enough even though I thought I was eating a ton. For those who really want to gain weight, I'd say take a weeks log of everything you are eating. You then have to eat a surplus amount of calories to gain weight since you are also weightlifting. Believe me, you're going to be eating like 5 times a day and you will be hungry every few hours, and you're not going to enjoy food after awhile! But your body will gain weight..if you're not gaining weight, you either arent getting enough or have a tapeworm, lol
This is good information for Highschool players to take in. I wish I would have weighed more in highschool I might have played in college. I weighed 140 pounds. 15 years later. I now weigh 210 pounds and am a lot stronger and I can definitely hit a baseball further.
I graduated from hs in 2020, had my hs season and all of my freshman college year/season scratched for covid, now finally getting ready for my sophomore year. Started hs 4’11 100lbs soaking wet checked in my hs season at 6’0 150-155 lbs. by the beginning of my sophomore year i was 180-185 lbs. Gaining weight is tough in highschool I felt like, wake up at 6 eat some eggos drive 25 mins to school eat some pb&js for lunch, 3 hour practice after school with 1-2 hours of extra work stuff after then do homework and by the time thats all done, its 10 and its either stay up late to eat and be tired tomorrow or give in and sleep, 5 days a week + sundays usually. I look back and think maybe I should have done more but it was just so hard
for me i was 132 lbs in march and put on 33lbs but i found success not going till failure. i always try to do my workouts with an rpe of 9 or 1 rep left in the tank after each set. when i was doing things till failure i always had been too fatigued to train the next time i worked a body part
Tenants of growing muscle. 1.food. Track everything you eat. Find your "baseline" caloric intake aka how many calories you can consume everyday and neither lose or gain weight. Track everything you eat (there are tons of free apps for this nowadays) for 3-5 days and weigh yourself to see any changes. And i mean EVERYTHING! That includes ketchups, bbq sauce, snacks at night. Buy a scale from Target or amazon and take it dead serious. Everyone is different. I personally am at 2200-2300 everyday to neither gain nor lose. i have a friend that is 3300. he has to eat 3600 calories everyday to gain weight. if you want to lose weight take your baseline and drop 200 calories from it(eating at a deficit). if you want to gain weight add 2-300 calories(eating at a surplus). when you lose weight your body will burn some muscle in the process. Your weights can and will still go up, but naturally it will wear on your body more and i would recommend fewer "max" or "failure" days. it is easier to build muscle without loss if you're eating at a surplus, but be aware if you put 25 lbs on your bench and 15 lbs on your belly it may not be a "healthier" you. This is what body builders have been doing for 50 years. A "bulk" cycle is a period of time in which you eat at a surplus and push your weights as far as possible, then that is usually followed by a "cut" cycle in which you eat at a deficit and attempt to lose any extra weight gained and retain muscle mass. But mind you this, for most, is the most ideal way to gain true muscle mass efficiently, if your purpose for gaining mass is more athletic such as being a baseball player with little to no off season, a gymnast, a swimmer, or a soccer player i would recommend a more balanced approach year round. Never let yourself become a ballooned semi fueled on chocolate milk and ham sandwiches because you "need to eat to gain weight". Protein and creatine if you're over the age of 18 and it's allowed by your sports governing body. If you're not in a sport, creatine is basically the only supplement in the world that truly will make a night and day difference aside from steroids. it's $10 for a jug of it. there's 30 years of research on it. BUY IT 2. Find a workout plan, commit to it, write down every single set and rep. It's daunting when you don't understand anything i know i was there once but the internet is amazing. Reddit and bodybuilding(dot)com have 1000's of work outs. And there are some great youtubers as well. Track everything. Make yourself responsible. Buy a blank notebook at the dollar store or wally world and make it your sacred book. I personally am one of those people that is most at home when i have no workout plan and just go in the gym and freestyle it, so i get it if that also doesn't appeal to you. But i also have years of experience lifting weights, and i have 1000 many workouts saved in the back of my brain. Even then that works for a few months and i'll start getting spaced out and lose my energy and i'll break a book back out and force myself to write down everything and it reignites my dedication. WRITE. IT. DOWN! 3. Become a student of the game. This is a mix of 1 and 2 and so much more. If you want to truly maximize your body and mind you need to study this stuff. Sorry if it doesn't interest you, but the dividends should. Better on the field, better in life. Girls will be more friendly to you, your physical confidence will go up which feeds directly into your confidence you have elsewhere, and you will just be healthier all around. you cannot complain about your size but also not put in the hard work to change it. Look at it as if it's life or death. tell yourself if i dont gain or lose what i need to gain or lose i'll never achieve what i want to achieve and attack it with that mind set. different sets matter. different rep counts matter. doing 3 reps vs 12 reps builds muscle completely different. and your desired results should keep that in mind. if you bench 405 twice you might be able to hit the ball far twice then be gassed. if you bench 315 31 times you might not hit the ball as far but you will probably be able to hit it hard 30 times. 4. Never give up on cardio. I hate cardio. If you're a bodybuilder sure it's not the most important thing until competition time comes close. but if you're an athlete you want to be game ready year around. If you think getting in game shape is hard now, just wait until you've packed on 15.20.30 lbs to your frame. and life always happens. Don't give yourself a timeline to "get your cardio up" with a hard date if you're in sports. I've been there. In highschool i was on track to get my cardio to peak just before the fall sports season. Boom viral pnuemonia out of nowhere. I wasn't allowed to run for a month. by time week 3 rolled around i was in the worst cardio shape i had ever been in in my life. Sure i would've lost some of my conditioning being laid up for a month, but had i stayed on it year round instead of cramming it into the last 60 days i would've been better off. Also for all the young lads, cardio increases the size of your veins over time. Women do like vascular men. if you're doing it for the aesthetic, you want that.
I've struggled to gain weight over the last year and a half now because of medical reasons, two years ago I weighed 185lbs at 6" but then I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2021 and dropped 58lbs due to a flare up, it took me a bit but by December of 21 I was up to 150lbs and 6'2. Then I had another flare up earlier this year which dropped be down to 124lbs in May and as of typing this now I am at 146lbs. So, I have had my struggles with gaining.
at what age do you recommend this for youth players? my son is turning 13 at the end of the month. I played college FB and started lifting for explosiveness in the 7th grade but football is a different sport. Is it unreasonable to start pushing my son with Olympic lifts for explosiveness and cone/agility training at this age? He is driven and plays travel club ball up a year from his age but I don't want to push him too early... or too late. thanks
Focus on the intensity/failure, progressive resistance training, proper protein/fuel intake, REST aspects. Also note M.A.'s Mindset when it came to overcoming his ego wanting to bail on the only reps that actually count.
Lifting heavy and going to/beyond failure always provided the best results when I did strength training. Working with a friend/spotter is the key. Makes sure you get those last couple reps in safely and really shocks the muscles.
When I tried out for JV freshman & sophomore and varsity my junior year, I was very overweight. I thought my glove and outfield arm would get me on my team, but I couldn't run or hit. Prior to senior year, I lost over 40 pounds, worked on my swing, cut 3 seconds off my home to 2nd run time, and made the team senior year.
I tell my players all the time you need to train until failure or your body does not face a great enough threat to produce the adaption response of getting stronger. Simple as that. Good message
Also make sure you're sleeping enough, at least 8 hours, and decompressing your spine through dead hangs and stuff after heavy full body exercises like squats and deadlifts. Because all of these things relieve the stress out on your spine from lifting and will allow you to grow to you max height regardless of your lifting.
I have the theory that What you do at puberty is crutial and will set your body up for your whole life. So lift like mad (Look at strongmen and top bodybuilder pros) and eat like a damn freight Train (just eat everything you can grab every 2-4hrs, and do not overdo fastfood and sweets). Thatll set you up. Basically thats what future NFL pros do...
What were your dieting strategies if any for bulking and cutting? I'm assuming bulking lots of carbs and up the fat and for cutting drop the fat and up the protein?
Big Lenny & Andrew Collura post-workout Butter Shakes: whole milk, stick of butter, eggs, peanut butter, and flaxseed oil. So thick it's like drinking cement. -
That’s insane! Calories from predominantly saturated fat! Put a little flax seed oil in there just to make it appear healthier for you is silly. In my opinion 40:30:30 ratio of carbs, protein, fat is great for building as much muscle as your body genetically will while maintaining lower body fat. Need to eat frequently though, every 3-4 hours should be plenty. Consistency is key and is often the most difficult to maintain! Now, if your goal is to be an NFL offensive lineman and as heavy as possible, then maybe the butter plan is the way to go but definitely not for baseball.
Everything that you said is absolutely correct. Also, for what it's worth, it is clear to me that you were never on steroids. As big as you got, you never had any of the tell-tale signs.
It is kinda crazy. I used to think I ate a lot until I started counting calories. I realized I wasn't getting as many calories as I thought. I think it's because I would eat larger meals but less frequently. I would just remember sitting down and eating a lot at once, and confuse that with eating a lot of calories per day. I'd think I ate a lot because I'd remember sitting down and eating almost a whole pizza, but forget the fact that besides the pizza, I ate little that day, leading to a low calorie count for that day.
My biggest fear as a kid was not being able to make enough weight for mlb. I remember I would try to look up players height/weight on video games who I thought were skinny to try and lessen my worries. I’d be like “Phew! Ok well David Ecstein and Jaun Pierre made it so I might have a shot but damn 170 pounds! That’s still alot.” Lol I was like 9 years old at the time stressin and I would constantly stress out about it in highschool.
I did think about taking hgh in highschool. I was pretty buff but just couldn’t gain alot of weight on the scale. I would drink ovalteine and milk like crazy haha but yea I definitely could have ate more. I was like 5’3 94 pounds when I was a freshman and 5’10 135 pounds senior year.
My kid (who is 14) and is very skinny about 120 lbs. I know eventually he will grow heavier and stronger, because he is very young. How can I, his dad, get him to gain a little weight? besides eating all he can eat at home!! Gracias senor
1. steroid bodies don't look the same as what Matt looked like in college or the pros. 2. Matt's a perfect example of simply having a true competitor's mentality about what he loved but for whatever reasons we still can't figure out, the sports gods just choose some who otherwise would've been amazing but they just get those injuries. It's heartbreaking BUT it's still beautiful because what he has done and can keep doing to help kids. Especially with him having the competitors mentality, it's not the same thing you'll get from a coach who doesn't have one. He can do everything else any other coach can do but he has that competitive edge too.
They took that from college my freshman year and never changed it. I was listed at that every year of my college and professional career but rarely played at it
@@AntonelliBaseball man but 6-1 and 195 lbs is still pretty good man for real, but 223 that's just nuts, I am 5-11 and I used to be a pitcher when I was like 16-17 years old, and my weight was 170 lbs, I trained with vicente Palacios, former major league pitcher, obviously in Mexico, so I hurted my shoulder and quited pitching and start focusing on getting bigger and I did the same as you, I did not go to a gym with a instructor, just lift weights, one day I worked my chest and my biceps, the next day my back and my triceps, next my shoulders and finally my legs and two days of pure cardio and it worked I gained like 15 pounds in 6 months no protein powders, no steroids just gym and food, now I am 31 and I don't go to the gym nore, I just run, pushups like 150 everyday and some bottoms and my weight is 183 currently hopefully I can play baseball again greetings Matt big fan from mexico
My metabolism retired the moment I started college. I gained about 15-20 pounds of bad weight my freshman year, after being lean and muscular all through high school. I can’t get away with eating garbage anymore.
@@AntonelliBaseball Thanks for all of your videos. I watch them because my son is in Spring Training with the Phillies in Clearwater. Just had his first mound appearance Tuesday and it went well.
Looking at that picture from 2008 and at least 25 of that 225 is just in your pants, bro. I'm not even a little bit gay but let's call this what it is. God damn that is quite a hog you got there. They obviously don't even make cups that size or else you would have surely protected that prized anaconda. Do you think maybe that is what ultimately slowed you down? When you dropped down to 180 did you have to chop it off to get that light? Did you need two shower stalls at the ball park? Did you have your own bat boy to help you carry that thing around? Did the people at Louisville Slugger get jealous? God damn son I can't even watch your videos the same way anymore.
OMG your cap is driving me nuts your a Gen X or a millennial bro! We curve the bill of our caps. Stop trying to look like a noob Zoomer with the straight bill cap BS.
2008 Anto was an absolute unit of a man.
My weight: 246lbs January 2020
Today: 214lbs October 22, 2020
Holy cow m8, that’s awesome!!
Congrats dude, way to go!
Erik, you dropped this 👑
good way to take advantage of quarantine
Congrats man. Keep it up!
Highly recommend starting strength method. Basic barbell exercises. Squats, deadlifts, bench press, and chins
this is also perfect for in season lifting, that way you can get the fundamentals without overtraining by doing too much
barbells are overrated. Dechambeau doesn't do squats, bench, dead, clean and he bombs it farther than anyone.
@@patrickmcgowan1252 Golf isn't a sport though. We are talking about real athletes.
Agree but you forgot arguably the most important exercise for the baseball player! The power clean! Developing the power clean allows the baseball players rate of force development (power) to maintain and go up proportionately with the slower strength exercises. It also teaches timing, coordination, balance, foot speed. If properly taught and learned it is phenomenal and a must for a player looking to stay athletic and quick. The power snatch can also be a great sub and arguably better for the baseball player with the longer range of motion/slightly lighter weight and faster bar speed than the power clean.
I love the part where he says kids come in and say they want to gain weight and they are doing their all but we know they aren’t. Don’t lie to me or yourself man. Great video man
Thanks!
I experienced the same. Was a zero power guy until I got to around 200 lbs, all of a sudden I was a powerhitter.
This was low-key very inspirational
5:30 this is actually brilliant. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the thought process literally helped you build muscle and caused your body to respond.
Great video Matt, and 100% true.
The higher up you go in sports, the harder you have to work.
My brother is a Doctor of Exercise Physiology who has worked extensively with professional athletes.
He’s worked with the Giants, A’s, 49ers, Raiders and Warriors, and the one trait that runs through all the athletes he’s tested, besides being good natural athletes, is that all these players worked their asses off to be the very best they could be. There is no free lunch, even those that take PED’s still have to put in the work. Just wanting to be the best isn’t good enough, it’s the work that makes it happen.
My son did gain 35 lbs went from 145lbs to 180 lbs got his to his Juco school they could believe it. He started playing fall ball and He’s a Huskies player now! It can be done 6 meals a day, no junk food and no skipping and great weightlifting with resistance bands. Thanks for your message!
Could you make a video showing some good workouts to perform at a gym or home to get a better baseball body? I’m looking to try to get stronger before the spring season.
I would love to see a video about that.
In his road to 400 season, he did show some of the stuff he used to do, but a specific video on it would be cool
How he did it: Burgers & fries during Covid :)
and a chocolate shake
Lol
Covid in 2008
This was an excellent video! This was exactly what I needed right now.
I like Pablo Sandoval have no problem with weight gain. My secret: cheeseburgers, Ben and Jerry's ice cream, and pizza.
I agree with what you said about the hardgainers not gaining weight...I used to think I was a hard gainer, and while I did have a good metabolism, I wasnt eating enough even though I thought I was eating a ton. For those who really want to gain weight, I'd say take a weeks log of everything you are eating. You then have to eat a surplus amount of calories to gain weight since you are also weightlifting. Believe me, you're going to be eating like 5 times a day and you will be hungry every few hours, and you're not going to enjoy food after awhile! But your body will gain weight..if you're not gaining weight, you either arent getting enough or have a tapeworm, lol
This is good information for Highschool players to take in. I wish I would have weighed more in highschool I might have played in college. I weighed 140 pounds. 15 years later. I now weigh 210 pounds and am a lot stronger and I can definitely hit a baseball further.
I graduated from hs in 2020, had my hs season and all of my freshman college year/season scratched for covid, now finally getting ready for my sophomore year. Started hs 4’11 100lbs soaking wet checked in my hs season at 6’0 150-155 lbs. by the beginning of my sophomore year i was 180-185 lbs. Gaining weight is tough in highschool I felt like, wake up at 6 eat some eggos drive 25 mins to school eat some pb&js for lunch, 3 hour practice after school with 1-2 hours of extra work stuff after then do homework and by the time thats all done, its 10 and its either stay up late to eat and be tired tomorrow or give in and sleep, 5 days a week + sundays usually. I look back and think maybe I should have done more but it was just so hard
You had a big ‘why’ and you got it 👍🏻👍🏻
for me i was 132 lbs in march and put on 33lbs but i found success not going till failure. i always try to do my workouts with an rpe of 9 or 1 rep left in the tank after each set. when i was doing things till failure i always had been too fatigued to train the next time i worked a body part
Tenants of growing muscle.
1.food. Track everything you eat. Find your "baseline" caloric intake aka how many calories you can consume everyday and neither lose or gain weight. Track everything you eat (there are tons of free apps for this nowadays) for 3-5 days and weigh yourself to see any changes. And i mean EVERYTHING! That includes ketchups, bbq sauce, snacks at night. Buy a scale from Target or amazon and take it dead serious. Everyone is different. I personally am at 2200-2300 everyday to neither gain nor lose. i have a friend that is 3300. he has to eat 3600 calories everyday to gain weight. if you want to lose weight take your baseline and drop 200 calories from it(eating at a deficit). if you want to gain weight add 2-300 calories(eating at a surplus). when you lose weight your body will burn some muscle in the process. Your weights can and will still go up, but naturally it will wear on your body more and i would recommend fewer "max" or "failure" days. it is easier to build muscle without loss if you're eating at a surplus, but be aware if you put 25 lbs on your bench and 15 lbs on your belly it may not be a "healthier" you. This is what body builders have been doing for 50 years. A "bulk" cycle is a period of time in which you eat at a surplus and push your weights as far as possible, then that is usually followed by a "cut" cycle in which you eat at a deficit and attempt to lose any extra weight gained and retain muscle mass. But mind you this, for most, is the most ideal way to gain true muscle mass efficiently, if your purpose for gaining mass is more athletic such as being a baseball player with little to no off season, a gymnast, a swimmer, or a soccer player i would recommend a more balanced approach year round. Never let yourself become a ballooned semi fueled on chocolate milk and ham sandwiches because you "need to eat to gain weight". Protein and creatine if you're over the age of 18 and it's allowed by your sports governing body. If you're not in a sport, creatine is basically the only supplement in the world that truly will make a night and day difference aside from steroids. it's $10 for a jug of it. there's 30 years of research on it. BUY IT
2. Find a workout plan, commit to it, write down every single set and rep. It's daunting when you don't understand anything i know i was there once but the internet is amazing. Reddit and bodybuilding(dot)com have 1000's of work outs. And there are some great youtubers as well. Track everything. Make yourself responsible. Buy a blank notebook at the dollar store or wally world and make it your sacred book. I personally am one of those people that is most at home when i have no workout plan and just go in the gym and freestyle it, so i get it if that also doesn't appeal to you. But i also have years of experience lifting weights, and i have 1000 many workouts saved in the back of my brain. Even then that works for a few months and i'll start getting spaced out and lose my energy and i'll break a book back out and force myself to write down everything and it reignites my dedication. WRITE. IT. DOWN!
3. Become a student of the game. This is a mix of 1 and 2 and so much more. If you want to truly maximize your body and mind you need to study this stuff. Sorry if it doesn't interest you, but the dividends should. Better on the field, better in life. Girls will be more friendly to you, your physical confidence will go up which feeds directly into your confidence you have elsewhere, and you will just be healthier all around. you cannot complain about your size but also not put in the hard work to change it. Look at it as if it's life or death. tell yourself if i dont gain or lose what i need to gain or lose i'll never achieve what i want to achieve and attack it with that mind set. different sets matter. different rep counts matter. doing 3 reps vs 12 reps builds muscle completely different. and your desired results should keep that in mind. if you bench 405 twice you might be able to hit the ball far twice then be gassed. if you bench 315 31 times you might not hit the ball as far but you will probably be able to hit it hard 30 times.
4. Never give up on cardio. I hate cardio. If you're a bodybuilder sure it's not the most important thing until competition time comes close. but if you're an athlete you want to be game ready year around. If you think getting in game shape is hard now, just wait until you've packed on 15.20.30 lbs to your frame. and life always happens. Don't give yourself a timeline to "get your cardio up" with a hard date if you're in sports. I've been there. In highschool i was on track to get my cardio to peak just before the fall sports season. Boom viral pnuemonia out of nowhere. I wasn't allowed to run for a month. by time week 3 rolled around i was in the worst cardio shape i had ever been in in my life. Sure i would've lost some of my conditioning being laid up for a month, but had i stayed on it year round instead of cramming it into the last 60 days i would've been better off. Also for all the young lads, cardio increases the size of your veins over time. Women do like vascular men. if you're doing it for the aesthetic, you want that.
Great stuff Matt. Thank you for sharing.
This video is exactly what I needed very inspirational and very helpful. Thank you for this video it was great to know for extra help:)
I've struggled to gain weight over the last year and a half now because of medical reasons, two years ago I weighed 185lbs at 6" but then I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2021 and dropped 58lbs due to a flare up, it took me a bit but by December of 21 I was up to 150lbs and 6'2. Then I had another flare up earlier this year which dropped be down to 124lbs in May and as of typing this now I am at 146lbs. So, I have had my struggles with gaining.
at what age do you recommend this for youth players? my son is turning 13 at the end of the month. I played college FB and started lifting for explosiveness in the 7th grade but football is a different sport. Is it unreasonable to start pushing my son with Olympic lifts for explosiveness and cone/agility training at this age? He is driven and plays travel club ball up a year from his age but I don't want to push him too early... or too late. thanks
Focus on the intensity/failure, progressive resistance training, proper protein/fuel intake, REST aspects. Also note M.A.'s Mindset when it came to overcoming his ego wanting to bail on the only reps that actually count.
Great video Matt!
I’m eating 3700 calories a day and gonna be back in the gym next week been training with light weight during COVID
Lifting heavy and going to/beyond failure always provided the best results when I did strength training. Working with a friend/spotter is the key. Makes sure you get those last couple reps in safely and really shocks the muscles.
Massive gains bro!
When I tried out for JV freshman & sophomore and varsity my junior year, I was very overweight. I thought my glove and outfield arm would get me on my team, but I couldn't run or hit. Prior to senior year, I lost over 40 pounds, worked on my swing, cut 3 seconds off my home to 2nd run time, and made the team senior year.
Congrats!
@@redwingsfan1136 Thanks! This was back in 1988/89 and it's a moment in my life that I use as a life lesson, just like Matt does.
@@RCfromtheNYC That's awesome!
Thanks coach this is amazing stuff especially me (an undersized 15 year old) this is gonna help me gain weight
I tell my players all the time you need to train until failure or your body does not face a great enough threat to produce the adaption response of getting stronger. Simple as that. Good message
I’m 14, eating about 2700 calories a day. Lots of protein. Going to the gym 5x a week. Lifting heavy. Is this a good start?
Get your calories up to 3500-3700 calories and your golden
@@bw5845 thanks
Also make sure you're sleeping enough, at least 8 hours, and decompressing your spine through dead hangs and stuff after heavy full body exercises like squats and deadlifts. Because all of these things relieve the stress out on your spine from lifting and will allow you to grow to you max height regardless of your lifting.
RUclips the get big routine and eat more and drink chocolate milk
@@coryjohnson1768 thanks, I drink lots of chocolate milk, probably the Wisconsin in me.
Thanks for this Anto
You are welcome!
I have the theory that What you do at puberty is crutial and will set your body up for your whole life. So lift like mad (Look at strongmen and top bodybuilder pros) and eat like a damn freight Train (just eat everything you can grab every 2-4hrs, and do not overdo fastfood and sweets). Thatll set you up. Basically thats what future NFL pros do...
Few people have the talent to play high level at any sports and even fewer people have the dedication
My son has the opposite problem he is 6'3" and weighs 225 and he's only 12 years old we are working on him cutting his carbs down
6’3” at 12 holy hell!
Starting to workout again I gained 5 pounds.
How did you feel with the added muscle?
Do you feel better at your natural weight?
I felt a little slower when I was 225ish. I was best at around 205-210
This is crazy. I put on 50 lbs. in 4 months using the exact same strategy!!
What were your dieting strategies if any for bulking and cutting? I'm assuming bulking lots of carbs and up the fat and for cutting drop the fat and up the protein?
Your best video maybe
Great video,thank you
Thanks!
I'm not sure if you've ever answered this but why were you number 9?
Big Lenny & Andrew Collura post-workout Butter Shakes: whole milk, stick of butter, eggs, peanut butter, and flaxseed oil. So thick it's like drinking cement.
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That’s insane! Calories from predominantly saturated fat! Put a little flax seed oil in there just to make it appear healthier for you is silly. In my opinion 40:30:30 ratio of carbs, protein, fat is great for building as much muscle as your body genetically will while maintaining lower body fat. Need to eat frequently though, every 3-4 hours should be plenty. Consistency is key and is often the most difficult to maintain!
Now, if your goal is to be an NFL offensive lineman and as heavy as possible, then maybe the butter plan is the way to go but definitely not for baseball.
At that point we’re you still middle infield or playing 3b?
2B
40lbs - SHEESH, THAT'S easy - have a Mexican cook for you
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Everything that you said is absolutely correct. Also, for what it's worth, it is clear to me that you were never on steroids. As big as you got, you never had any of the tell-tale signs.
Im currently 6'3 192 lbs. Hoping to get up to 220 by next year.
It is kinda crazy. I used to think I ate a lot until I started counting calories. I realized I wasn't getting as many calories as I thought. I think it's because I would eat larger meals but less frequently. I would just remember sitting down and eating a lot at once, and confuse that with eating a lot of calories per day. I'd think I ate a lot because I'd remember sitting down and eating almost a whole pizza, but forget the fact that besides the pizza, I ate little that day, leading to a low calorie count for that day.
Dorian Yates and Big Lenny are the ambassadors of high intensity training.
What was your max squat?
"I Gained 40 Pounds! How I Did It"....Oreos, whiskey, and beer
Baconators for the win!
The support from your mom helps.
Greg Doucette “ train harder than last time “
Inside the mind of a professional athlete.
10 boxes of Lucky Charms and 20 “Antonelli Special” pancakes per day.
Young athletes, both male and female, are highly susceptible to eating disorders because coaches focus attention to their weight.
I only coach male athletes, but weight is a big part of the recruiting process and on field success unfortunately
+Antonelli Baseball Did you ever think about transitioning to first base after your manager told you to get smaller?
We had Adrian Gonzalez there so wouldn’t have been a good idea
I can't gain weight....so no one over 35 ever :D
My biggest fear as a kid was not being able to make enough weight for mlb. I remember I would try to look up players height/weight on video games who I thought were skinny to try and lessen my worries. I’d be like “Phew! Ok well David Ecstein and Jaun Pierre made it so I might have a shot but damn 170 pounds! That’s still alot.” Lol I was like 9 years old at the time stressin and I would constantly stress out about it in highschool.
And when I was a freshman my coach was like you’re really good but you gotta gain weight. He told me to eat steak and eggs at 3 in the morning lol
I did think about taking hgh in highschool. I was pretty buff but just couldn’t gain alot of weight on the scale. I would drink ovalteine and milk like crazy haha but yea I definitely could have ate more. I was like 5’3 94 pounds when I was a freshman and 5’10 135 pounds senior year.
If Laura would’ve been your nutritionist you would’ve been 123 lbs by giving you 2 meals a day.
Just kidding, keep up the good content Matt?
123 is TINY! I weighed 128 as a scrawny HS freshman, and I'm only 5'9".
She would have gotten him some Dominoes
Big deal I gained 40 pounds of non muscle by eating fast food. lol
Nice😈😈🥵
I never count reps when I work out. I just go to failure.. I only count sets.
My kid (who is 14) and is very skinny about 120 lbs. I know eventually he will grow heavier and stronger, because he is very young. How can I, his dad, get him to gain a little weight? besides eating all he can eat at home!! Gracias senor
And go Pats, and Bucs with Tom and Gronk
Want to make him mad
@@chaimweingarten7219 hahaha, I said go Pats first though.
1. steroid bodies don't look the same as what Matt looked like in college or the pros. 2. Matt's a perfect example of simply having a true competitor's mentality about what he loved but for whatever reasons we still can't figure out, the sports gods just choose some who otherwise would've been amazing but they just get those injuries. It's heartbreaking BUT it's still beautiful because what he has done and can keep doing to help kids. Especially with him having the competitors mentality, it's not the same thing you'll get from a coach who doesn't have one. He can do everything else any other coach can do but he has that competitive edge too.
This video has 420 views as of me watching it. Is that a hint of how you gained the weight? Haha.
Umm, Matt all this could answer all the questions you pose about Jasson Dominguez...
Yes some of it, but is typically tougher for a 17 year old to do that vs a 23 year old
If you think gaining weight is hard trying being 52 and trying to lose some weight. Now THAT's a challenge!
Hard gainers are full of crap. Like Matt explained in the video, they don’t ever eat enough.
Just ate sumthing. Yes
What college did you play for?
Wake Forest
6.5? Holy smoke
in baseball reference you are listed 6-1 and 195 lb
They took that from college my freshman year and never changed it. I was listed at that every year of my college and professional career but rarely played at it
@@AntonelliBaseball man but 6-1 and 195 lbs is still pretty good man for real, but 223 that's just nuts, I am 5-11 and I used to be a pitcher when I was like 16-17 years old, and my weight was 170 lbs, I trained with vicente Palacios, former major league pitcher, obviously in Mexico, so I hurted my shoulder and quited pitching and start focusing on getting bigger and I did the same as you, I did not go to a gym with a instructor, just lift weights, one day I worked my chest and my biceps, the next day my back and my triceps, next my shoulders and finally my legs and two days of pure cardio and it worked I gained like 15 pounds in 6 months no protein powders, no steroids just gym and food, now I am 31 and I don't go to the gym nore, I just run, pushups like 150 everyday and some bottoms and my weight is 183 currently hopefully I can play baseball again greetings Matt big fan from mexico
If I watch this video in reverse, will I learn how to lose 40 pounds?
Eat something, lift something.
I can easily gain weight but I’m afraid I’ll gain a lot of body fat
Mcdonald’s for a year
I know i would be a beast if i gained 40 pounds lmao
My metabolism retired the moment I started college. I gained about 15-20 pounds of bad weight my freshman year, after being lean and muscular all through high school. I can’t get away with eating garbage anymore.
I did it- easiest thing I did.
Tough MLB career...
I enjoyed it!
@@AntonelliBaseball Thanks for all of your videos. I watch them because my son is in Spring Training with the Phillies in Clearwater. Just had his first mound appearance Tuesday and it went well.
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Looking at that picture from 2008 and at least 25 of that 225 is just in your pants, bro. I'm not even a little bit gay but let's call this what it is. God damn that is quite a hog you got there. They obviously don't even make cups that size or else you would have surely protected that prized anaconda. Do you think maybe that is what ultimately slowed you down? When you dropped down to 180 did you have to chop it off to get that light? Did you need two shower stalls at the ball park? Did you have your own bat boy to help you carry that thing around? Did the people at Louisville Slugger get jealous? God damn son I can't even watch your videos the same way anymore.
Finally got to 140 because I started doing 250 push ups a day
Were you a bride?
HaHa I can hear the wokey wokesters now..."He's body shaming!" :D
I'm 152 at 14
OMG your cap is driving me nuts your a Gen X or a millennial bro! We curve the bill of our caps. Stop trying to look like a noob Zoomer with the straight bill cap BS.
lol @ namechecking i-yit-ho in peabody
HIT training. It works. It’s how Mike Mentzer, Dorian Yates, plus a lot of other guys worked out that way.