Baseball Down Under

Sure, people a baseball player means you’re going to be training with baseball specific exercises. But you also need to be an athlete!

Part of being the best that you can be at a young age is doing different style of training to allow your body to adapt and learn how it moves and what it needs to improve on.

It’s been scientifically proven that doing a wide variety of sport specific training growing up produces the best athletes on the planet.

Even if baseball is your sport and you know you only want to play it, you still need to train like a 🏈 or ⚽️ star to best prepare yourself for the long haul!

Trying to stop casting on your swing?

Use this drill to focus on having your back shoulder and hands travelling at the same time.

The focus should be on not letting whatever is on your shoulder fall off too soon. If your hands separate too early, then the object will fall off before you’ve hit your swing stride.

Keep the hands close to the body at all times and you’ll have an abundance of success at the plate.

Have you ever been told “lead with your hip” while pitching❓

What we’re trying to do with this drill is get your body used to creating momentum down the mound to accelerate an effective push off from your back leg.

Give this loaded hold variation a try and feel the power you’re able to create with a solid lead hip❗️

P.S. apologies for the shaky camera. It was a very windy day 😅

Often times people ask me how many arm injuries I’ve had to either my elbow or shoulder.

The truth is, I’ve had a lot.

But if I had known about the activation of the glutes and how important is it to get them warmed up at a younger age, I would have been able to reduce the amount of injuries I’ve had.

The truth is, the more you use your legs, the less torque you need to put on your upper body when delivering your pitch.

So if you can add in some glute activation exercises like this one here to your routine, you’ll be in a better position to have success.

This is Leeuwin’s second pitching session with me and he’s already throwing flat ground strikes after never pitching a day in his life before 🙌🏼

But as so many other pitchers before him, he found out right away that if the focus isn’t there entirely, that ball can fly any which direction without any control.

Non-baseball players don’t understand the mental difficulty of the game.

They think baseball is easy and that anyone could do it.

But when it’s just you, on a bump, with the ball in your hands and the fate of the game on your next pitch, there’s no telling what could happen.

That’s why we fall back on our mechanics to do the job without us having to think about it, because we’re often contemplating a dozen other decisions trying to play that game within the game 👌🏼

Pitching is made up of hundreds of different mechanical movements that come together to create your pitching mechanics.

Sometimes we need to break down specific movements to have more efficient energy transfer instead of being maximum effort guys.

This drill is focused on our landing point and forcing hip separation from the start.

This allows for effortless weight transfer and increases our velocity by understanding the way our body should work!