Category: Weight Room

  • Long-Toss Part 2 – Mechanical Differences and Similarities

    It’s been a long time between part 1 and part 2 of this series on long-toss, pun intended.  My two main excuses are that I got side track preparing for my presentation at Lantz Wheeler’s Pitch-a-Palooza in Nashville but it went well and it provided me with a ton of great info from the other…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Tis’ the Season for Size & Strength

    There is a magic formula for adding lots of muscle in order to become bigger and stronger and the three components are: Eat Lots of Food Get Lots of Rest Lift Lots of Heavy Weights There is no better time for the college baseball player to take advantage of this size and strength formula then the…