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Baseball Training!
Welcome to the Baseball Training Homepage! You will find everything you need here to improve your bat speed, enhance your baserunning speed and increase your arm strength!
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Training Considerations for Baseball Pitchers
David Lasnier
Baseball places a beating on the shoulders, especially those of pitchers. With many pitchers throwing in excess of several hundred pitches per week, and with glenohumeral rotation velocities reaching 7000°/second (1), it is expected that players develop adaptations in both bone/joint structure and soft-tissue length/quality. For example, pitchers, like other throwing athletes, develop retrotorsion at the humeral head (a longitudinal posterior rotation in the bone, allowing for increased external rotation ROM) which results from years of high velocity throwing (2). From a training standpoint, there isn't much that can be done about these bony adaptations. In fact, these adaptations are likely advantageous, and therefore it would be undesirable to change them. On the other hand, soft-tissue related issues are something we have some control over. These are important to address because soft-tissue adaptations can result in significant ROM losses in the throwing arms of baseball pitchers (3), but I digress, as this could be the topic of an entire article in itself. . . .
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Training Considerations for
Pitchers
John Pallof, PT, OCS, COMT, CSCS
Consider for a moment the amount of money that is invested in pitchers every year at the professional level - from signing bonuses for new draftees, to the mammoth contracts signed by pitchers like C . . .
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Swing Speed: From the Floor, Through the Core Part II
Joe Bonyai, M.Ed., CSCS
Part I of "Swing Speed" covered the relationship of movements throughout the body during rotational actions. In the second half of this series, I'll provide a bunch of exercise descriptions and rationale aimed at developing the mobility and stability requisite for safe and powerful rotational movement.
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Swing Speed: From the Floor, Through the Core Part I
Joe Bonyai, CSCS
Training for rotation-related sports requires an understanding of technique and specific biomechanics just like training for any other skill. The goals for this article are to review how force is produced during rotational movements, explain what the body must endure to allow this force to be transmitted efficiently, and to depict the similarities of movement between different sports. . . .
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Strength Training for the Shoulder: Should Throwing Athletes Lift Weights Overhead?
Robert Panariello MS, PT, ATC, CSCS
Should throwing athletes lift weights overhead? During the Rehabilitation and Performance Training of throwing athletes, especially baseball players, this is a common concern often expressed by both players and coaches. The specific baseball athlete where this topic appears to generate the greatest concern is the pitcher. The apprehension displayed by both coaches and players, is due to their fear of the possible adverse effect of this type of overhead training on the shoulder, and more specifically the rotator cuff, and throwing performance. Prior to determining if this type of strength training is not only safe, but of benefit to the throwing athlete, it is necessary for the rehabilitation/sports performance specialist to understand shoulder anatomy and biomechanics, as well as the performance of overhead strength training. . . .
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An Inside Look at How to Train Professional Athletes!
Bob Alejo
Almost nobody know as much about training elite and pro athletes as Bob Alejo (Personal Conditioning Coach of Jason Giambi, Former Strength and Conditioning Coach of Oakland A's and UCLA). Here, learn what it REALLY takes to train pro athletes including in-season and off-season conditioning strategies. . . .
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