Category: Lehman’s Research
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Are you Primed for More Bat Speed? Add some POP to your bat with PAP in your Muscles!!!
When the umpire yells’s “Play Ball!!” you want your muscles to be primed, excited and ready to go. The best way to make this happen is through a good warm up. A good warm will reduce your chances of injury which is of the upmost importance because you can’t play if you’re hurt but a great warm up…
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Accelerate Your Game: How to Improve Your Game Speed
Today’s article is going to focus on running speed as it relates to the game of baseball. The kind of speed that raises your batting average with infield hits, the kind of speed that makes infielders rush plays. These are examples of real baseball speed. When you think of the fastest athletes in the world…
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You need stronger legs to Pitch than we thought!!!
We all know that you need strong legs to pitch but a new study, which isn’t even published yet, is telling us that they need to be stronger than we originally thought. Jonathan Broxton, now with the Royals, needs his big tree trunk legs to handle his big frame (6’4″ – 295lbs) and produce his big…
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Jogging Kills Your Power – Studies You Should Know About
Baseball is a game of POWER, power pitchers and power hitters dominate the game and get the attention of coaches, scouts and fans. Every play in baseball lasts only a few seconds and the two main actions, swing and throwing, requires less than a second. Despite these facts endurance training has been emphasised for years which…
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Pitching 8 months a Year Might not be a Great Idea – Studies you should know about
The study in question today comes from the Dr. Andrews lab in the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama. Risk Factors for Shoulder and Elbow Injuries in Adolescent Baseball Pitchers By: Samuel J. Olsen II, MD, Glenn S. Fleisig,* PhD, Shouchen Dun, MS, Jeremy Loftice, and James R. Andrews, MD What did they want…
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