Stress is seen, sometimes, as a precursor to injury. One might hear a coach say quite frequently that “x” exercise is bad because it is too stressful for the arm, knee, etc. Coaches say this quite frequently when it comes to weighted balls and upper-body exercises in the weight room. I’ve heard it my whole [...]
“Assess Don’t Assume,” is a great phrase that I heard a long time ago form one of the coaches that I look up to the most, Eric Cressey. He and Mike Reinold were doing an assessment of an overhead athlete and they were talking about assessing athletes before making assumptions based on how they move [...]
The more and more that I talk with hitters I am surprised with just how many go up to the plate without a definitive approach. Going up to the plate without an idea of what you want to do is like taking a trip without a map. Can you imagine taking a two-thousand-mile trip [...]
Those are some of my favorite words that I ever heard as a player. While training in the off-season I took a trip to my pitching coach’s facility in Montgomery, Texas: The Texas Baseball Ranch. While I was there I learned a lot of different training drills and throwing protocols in order to help me [...]
DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START? MENTALITY IS A GOOD PLACE All too often as coaches, parents, and mentors we are too quick to jump on the mechanics bandwagon. If something is wrong the first thing that often gets looked at is the mechanics of the hitter, and sometimes rightfully so. But more often than not [...]
Hitting is undeniably hard. There is no question to that. It is a moving ball with less than .4 seconds to recognize what the pitch is, where it is going to be, and deciding whether you should swing or not. On top of that you actually have to hit it if you do swing. It [...]
Are you soft? This is a blog directed at the athletes themselves. The reasons for that is because my generation and the one coming up behind me, have been awarded an extraordinary opportunity in life to live in comfort, peace, and tranquility. But it has made the majority of us soft. Soft is a mentality, [...]
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