Baseball Conditioning: Without a Weight Room

Every year, I get emails, texts and calls from our baseball alumni that they would like to come back and use our weight room over their Winter Break to keep up with their conditioning program. Assuming the weight room isn’t too crowded (which it usually is because we had 48 players in it every day […]

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Posted in Conditioning, Practice Organization
Dec, 18, 2014
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Adding Agility Drills to Improve Baseball Footwork

This is the second in a series of posts we will be doing on off season conditioning specific to baseball players. In this post, we will focus on footwork and agility. Any experienced coach will tell you that most errors, especially throwing errors are a result of poor, lazy, or improper footwork. We often just […]

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Posted in Conditioning
Nov, 10, 2014
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Pitcher Safety Part II – Post Pitching Recovery

Similar to the controversy surrounding the use and over use of youth pitchers, the debate of whether pitchers should use ice after a start rages on in some circles. Many pitchers (including myself) just iced because it’s what we are supposed to do. Many pitchers ice because they are afraid not to. Some truly believe […]