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Swingtraining.net & Perfect Competition

October 1st, 2009 No comments

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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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Simple Bat Speed Training Program

August 25th, 2009 No comments

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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Bob Alejo talks bat speed

August 15th, 2009 No comments

Bob Alejo is the strength and conditioning coach of the Oakland Athletics.  This video from the strength power hour is from the 2007 NSCA sport-specific conference and he gives some baseball training tips, drills and exercises that address these areas of hitting:

You can check out more on Bob Alejo at his website.

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Mailbag #3 – rotational strength and bat speed training

August 12th, 2009 No comments

I am trying to use my larger muscles more when I swing and I thought perhaps you had some type of specific drill with a medicine ball or some weight that would help develop my rotational strength.

Check out this post I made on Resistance Training for Batspeed.  The article in there covers a lot of basics about general, special and specific training for bat speed.  Each of the protocols referenced there were used successfully with high school and college athletes.


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Texas Rangers S&C videos

August 3rd, 2009 No comments

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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Off-Season Pro Baseball Training Protocol

August 2nd, 2009 5 comments

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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