is it possible to still have progress during my baseball season?

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dUtch.

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ok so heres the deal: ive been working out 4 times a week for a couple months now since i got a gym membership. i really enjoy it, but i feel like theres so much that i don't know that i need to know. when i got my membership i paid for like 3 sessions with a trainer to kinda get me started. he helped me set up a split routine doing lower body monday/thursday and upper body tuesday/friday. i make really healthy food choices and try to eat every 3 hours, but i know i don't eat enough because im losing weight.

im 16 yo, 6ft, 170lb

im skinny, but its not toned/defined. so i would call it fat skinny (skinny fat?). theres a layer of fat pretty much all over my uper body. my goal is to put on lean muscle while getting rid of some of the fat i have.

i wasn't worried about achieving this (maybe even by summer to some extent) until i realized that baseball is starting and i have no idea how much ill be able to get into the gym.
i talked to my trainer and he said that as long as i can get in once or twice a week, i shouldn't lose any progress that ive made in the last couple months (even tho i don't feel that ive made any progress in the last couple months).

so i was wondering what i should do? should i disect my split routine and turn it into a full body so that if i only get in one time in a particular week, i won't only work lower body or upper body?
is there any hope to make progress even through baseball and maybe have some kind of result before summer?
and just to let you know im not like trying to get results fast. i know its gonna take time and alot of hard work, but i enjoy the work so its not a big deal.

any and all info and comments are appreciated. thanks,
dutch.
 
You can get a pretty good workout in just 20 minutes, 4 times a week (2 upper and 2 lower) if you need to. 2 sets of 12 reps on a pushing movement (overhead press/bench press) and a pulling movement (rows/pullups/pull downs) and maybe a couple of isolation exercises (curls and triceps extensions?), 2 sets of 12 reps each if you have time and for lower 2-5 sets of 5-12 reps of a quad dominant movement (squats/leg press) and 2-3 sets of 5-12 reps of a rear chain dominant movement (dead lift/rdl/sdl) is enough to make some progress.
 
so how does this look:
monday/thursday: leg extension, leg curl, leg sled, and a calf exercise.
tuesday/friday: chest press, pull ups, barbell curl, and tricep pushdown.

i noticed you didn't mention anything for abs?

right now my trainer has 3x12 on the ab bench and also a core strengthening excercise on my leg days.
i injured my back last year and thats what the core excercise that my trainer gave me is for. so i would really like to keep that in my routine. i could do that on my off days at home maybe?
 
You might want to include some rear chain exercises like romanian or stiff legged dead lifts to strengthen your back. Start with light weights and high reps (12-15) and gradually increase the weight as your back gets stronger. That helped my bad back.

If you do heavy squats or something similar you get a lot of indirect core and ab work without doing direct core or ab exercises. there is nothing wrong with doing a couple of sets of abs if you have the time and energy.
 
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