Baseball ready, Strength & Conditioning

Baseball ready, Strength & Conditioning

The strength & conditioning program for baseball is designed to improve performance and reduce risk of injury. To improve performance you have to increase sport-specific strength, speed, endurance, flexibility, and power. To prevent injuries you have to condition the entire body to perform the explosive and repetitive tasks encountered in game play.

The baseball season is a marathon, not a sprint.... Most college and high school athletes play all year-round. MLB plays 162 games and the Minor Leagues play 142. The key to effective, injury-free performance is consistency. You have to work on some aspect of your game and fitness every day. You can't play yourself into shape in Spring Training. You can't stop working out on Opening Day. You just can't have a hit-and-miss program and expect to play your best.

How to train is important. For max results and steady gains, use my comprehensive, year-round program based on a periodization model that systematically varies the exercises performed, the intensity of the workout, and the volume of the workout done from week-to-week and month-to-month, 365 days a year! If you or your son have a goal to make the "Major Leagues", then please ask me how I can help!

Tip: As a pitcher, there is a 3-link chain that is a big concern for a power pitcher; generating force through your legs and applying it with your arms, but that energy must be transferred through the trunk.

By Charles Miskel, Personal Trainer.  e-mail: mrmiskel@yahoo.com