Strengthen your on-field performance with Complete Conditioning for Baseball. With customized workouts for position-specific skills, this book and DVD combination provides you with the exercises, drills, and programs designed to generate more hitting power, increase the velocity of throws, improve quickness, and enhance your overall abilities.
Until now, only the pros and some major college players had access to sport-specific training advice for developing their bodies to excel on the field. >Complete Conditioning for Baseball> is the first comprehensive training book to show baseball players and coaches at all levels how to get in the best possible shape so they can hit the ball harder, throw it faster, and run with greater agility and speed.For players, >Complete Conditioning for Baseball> is a year-round conditioning manual that they`ll take to the weight room as well as to the practice field. For coaches, it`s the ideal team and player training guide that they`ve wished for years they had.The book`s all-star lineup features:- 105 photographs illustrating correct exercise technique and game action;- 26 tables containing training workouts and programs;- 39 strengthening exercises for building the muscles used most in baseball;- 46 drills for developing greater power, speed, and agility;- nutritional guidelines; and- 12-week, sample training programs for pitchers and position players, off-season and in-season.The authors are two of the best authorities when it comes to maximizing the performance potential of players through baseball-specific conditioning. Pat Murphy, who brought Notre Dame`s baseball program from the bottom to the top, now is at Arizona State piloting one of the country`s best college baseball programs. Jeff Forney is the strength and conditioning coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Murphy and Forney present exercises and drills that transfer directly to the playing field for winning performance.
Strength Training for Baseball will help you create a baseball-specific resistance training program to help athletes at each position--pitchers, catchers, middle infielders, corner infielders, center fielders, and corner outfielders--develop strength and power that will serve them on the field.
Provides instructions for a variety of exercises designed to prepare the body for martial arts, including karate, taekwondo, judo, aikido, jujitsu, and others, and includes advice on nutrition and recovery, as well as fitness evaluation.
Baseball from the ground up -- everything you need to know to play like a pro. New York Yankee Dave Winfield, one of the true greats of thegame, now shares his years of major league experience in a one-of-a-kind step-by-step guide that will help you play to win. From on-field technique to off-field conditioning, it's all here in this detailed baseball "bible" for young and old, for rookieand veteran alike. Learn the game-winning secrets of: Attitude and Psychology Fitness and Conditioning Pitching Hitting Fielding Baserunning Plus: coaching and managing...choosing your equipment...how to compile you stats...and much much more. With invaluable tips on how to fine-tune your game from someof the greatest names in baseball: Don Mattingly...Johnny Bench...Kirby Puckett...Tommy John...Harold Reynolds...Dave Righetti...Vince Coleman...Gary Gaetti...Ozzie Smith...and many others.
In Fit to Pitch, baseball's best pitching expert, Tom House, shares the coaching secrets that helped Nolan Ryan sustain a long, successful career and Randy Johnson win a Cy Young Award. With House's pitcher-specific training program, you'll strengthen your body and your arm so you can take the mound in top condition.
This guide starts with a conditioning programme before tailoring the training exercises and drills to the development of sport-specific performances. The training programme is designed for peak performance during the competitive season.
Complete Conditioning for Pitchers provides answers on how to condition, strength train, and maintain arm health of the pitcher. Sports performance coach Sean Cochran lays out the fundamental training principles, protocols, exercises, and programming in this book. Sean Cochran with his over 15 years of experience in professional athletics, positions with 2 MLB organizations, the training of multiple world renowned athletes, Cy Young Award winners, and multiple 1st round draft choices provides you the tools as a pitcher to excel in this game. Over 200 pages of information explain and illustrate the proper guidelines, exercises, and programs to follow when developing a pitcher specific strength and conditioning program, allowing you the potential for optimal performance, arm health, and increases in velocity. Regardless if you are a high school pitcher, minor leaguer, big leaguer, or a coach working with pitchers. Complete Conditioning for Pitchers is the definitive guide for developing all aspects of a pitcher for long term arm health and success on the mound.
