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Strength & Conditioning
Day 1 (Home/Gym)
Here are the video’s and demo’s of the exercises that you will find in your program. There will be variations for those athletes who are working out at home with out Quality Circuit Bowler Squat Spiderman Bear Crawl Power Circuit Lateral Jump Pallof Press Side Lying External Rotation Strength Circuit #1 Single Leg Squat to … Continue reading
Exercises – DB Phase 1.2
Band Resisted Lateral Jump – loop band around waist Impulse Split Squat (go faster than seen here – virbrate with 6 inch range of motion) Alt Side Plank Dynamic Blackburns Landmine Squat Alt Glute Bridge MB Side Toss Lateral Overloads MB Jump Squat Quarter Get Up – doesn’t have to be a KB – DB … Continue reading
Customized Mechanics – How Strong and What Kind of Strong?
How strong do you need to be to throw a baseball really, really hard? This is a tricky question to answer since there are a lot of factors at play. For example, I mentioned way back in the antropometrics article that you wouldn’t expect Aaron Sanchez to lift the same amount when bench pressing or … Continue reading
Baseball Athlete Profiling System
The goal of this profiling system is to give the front office a tool that can be used to gather a lot of valuable information about how well an athlete can produce power. The graph below quickly allows us to quantifiably assess an athletes ability in 5 vital areas needed to produce power. The results … Continue reading
Sprinting Cues
External Cues for acceleration Posture – Head to heel strong as steel, Front Side – break the glass (w/ knee), punch the mitt, sprint up the hill Backside – push the ground away, drive back, power over quickness Arm action – throw spaghetti at the wall, bread to ducks chasing you Sprinting cues Posture … Continue reading
Squat analysis – JD Ney
This squat has a lot of room for improvement and once this is cleared up we will have an athlete that moves a lot more efficiently. Plus we can start to load up this movement and build a strong and powerful lower half. Do this in front of mirror so that you can see if … Continue reading
Strength & Conditioning 2.2
Sets & Reps Round A 2-3 rounds 1 RFESS – Goblet Grip 10/ 2 Chest Supported Row 10 3 Pushup 10 Round B 2-3 rounds 1 Heel Touch/Single Leg Box Squat 8/ 2 Landmine Press 12/ 3 Supine Pullaparts 12 C 2-3 rounds 1 Back Extensions 12 2 Alt SB DB Press 8/ 3 … Continue reading
Athletic Circuit – 2.2
Jump backs – 5 per leg slowly jog forward then easily hop forward onto one foot stop n’ pop backwards if you can’t slow yourself down and move away in less than one second then you jumped too agressivly pretend your are running and you just saw a snake and you need to jump back … Continue reading
Lehman’s Baseball
- Does throwing with a radar gun help you throw harder? Short article with tons of great info
- Kinogram #1 – Paul Skenes
- Shapes and Sizes of Cuban Pitchers
- Kinogram – a simple yet effective tool to improve mechanics
- Million Dollar Arm 2.0 – Part 2 (Testing for Mobility and Phyiscal Abilites)
- Million Dollar Arm 2.0 – Scouting Pitchers Outside of the Baseball World
- Bigger Arms = Bigger Velocity?!?!?!
- Pitcher’s in the NL West -Average Joes
- Shapes & Sizes: NL Central Average Joes
- The Freaks & Outliers: NL East Pitchers
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