Stack TV has a series of hitting, workout & training video clips featuring Evan Longoria from the Tampa Bay Rays.  These cover aspects of his baseball specific workouts in the weight room that target power development through the lower body and core muscles, as well as training the upper body for stability.  Just as important to the training, especially considering the daily repetition and long duration of the baseball season, is his mindset of taking quality reps in each area in order to maximize the training effect of his effort.

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Swingtraining.net has joined with Perfect Competition sports performance facility in order to provide comprehensive strength, speed, and hitting specific workout programs in the Southeast Florida area.  Perfect Competition already has a well established reputation for their MLB Performance Enhancement program, and now Swingtraining.net will add the most specific hitting training available.

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A couple of years ago, I made a post about resistance training for bat speed that outlined a weight lifting program that has been demonstrated through research to improve strength for high school baseball players.  It’s basic multi-joint movements and progressive overload principle provide exellent results.

Something I think that was overlooked there was that the original NSCA article by Dr. David Szymanski also includes a simple protocol for increasing bat speed using overload/underload weighted implement training:

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More from the Texas Rangers…..their Major League strength and conditioning coach, Jose Vazquez, has a series of instructional videos on baseball strength and conditioning, which include strength exercises, core stability, medicine ball work, and also stretching.

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What follows below is information I first wrote in January 2006.  I’m reposting it because I want to have the info on the ‘new’ version of the site (rather than just the old link) and also because it’s pretty good stuff.

There’s a video clip to show the progression, and the text details a number of things:

• increasing bat velocity
• reaction training
• transition from ‘training’ to ‘hitting’
• points of emphasis for mechanics and drills
• strength training

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Since I have pretty much directed most of my work to MLB analysis, I thought it would be good to get back to a bit of the training side of things.

This is a recent article on resistance training for bat speed written by Dr. David Szymanski, who is one of my professors here at Louisiana Tech.

For you high school coaches out there, this may be a good guide especially for players who are not experienced with weight training.  This protocol was used in a few previous studies by Dr. Szymanski and I experienced it myself this past fall in a study we did (which is not published yet, but referenced in this article).  Also, if you have limited facilities, this is a basic way to help young players get stronger.

This is an overview, but you’re going to want to read the whole article:

The article explains general, special and specific conditioning and also explains possible differences in training high school and college players.

I’ve got to throw this in here too, because it was pretty cool to see:

These are references to the studies we have done so far, which have been a great experience.  Maybe someday I’ll have my own publication?  We’ll see…