Performance System – Ultimate 52-Week High-Performance Softball Training System
Are you very serious about reaching your maximum potential? Are you hard working? Then, this complete and breakthrough Ultimate 52-Week High-Performance Softball Training System is for you! This MONSTER 466-page system contains simply the best and most comprehensive softball workouts on the planet! These are the same softball training workouts, advanced training methods, and innovative exercises all the best softball softball players in the world use to achieve extraordinary performances.
WARNING: This advanced training system is very challenging and is designed only for serious, hard-working elite players.
Performance System – How to Perform Your Best at Your Next Tryouts
Most players fail to deliver their best performance when trying out because they (a) choke under pressure, (b) are not well-prepared and/or (c) don’t really know what to expect.
If you aren’t well-prepared, don’t know how to handle stress, and/or don’t know what to expect, you will fail to show the best of yourself, choke and leave a bad impression with the coaches. And you will definitely not make the team.
Sleep Deprivation in Softball
Eight hours of sleep seems like a colossal waste of time, doesn’t it? After all, in the hectic world we live in, those precious hours could be put to use for many other more useful things. So why is sleep important and why do we need so much of it? This report discusses the most overlooked performance factor in softball and how it really can affect your game.
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Rotator Cuff Injuries
When you throw the ball, some muscles are responsible for accelerating the arm while others are responsible for decelerating it. The rotator cuff is a group of 4 muscles located in the back of the shoulder responsible for the deceleration of the throwing arm. Because of the high velocities generated by the throwing motion, the repetitive nature of the action, and the fact that these 4 small muscles are often weak and untrained, softball players are very prone to develop rotator cuff injuries.
This report discusses what is the rotator cuff, what are rotator cuff injuries, and how to treat and prevent them.
Q & A – Increasing Arm Strength and Throwing Velocity
Question: I will be 42 this summer and find myself in good shape. I train with weights year round with the focus on strength-training and lean muscle mass. I have always had a good, strong arm with good throwing velocity. This year, I have noticed a bit of drop off on my throwing velocity. I play as a middle infielder. I am struggling with this decrease in velocity since I perform a full complement of shoulder and arm exercises with free weights. Any tips on improving the velocity? Why has the velocity decreased? Would any stretching exercises help?
Answer: Unfortunately, age is definitely a factor. You cannot fight age forever. However, you probably have maintained with your training routine, over the years, a fair
amount of muscular power in your arms which allowed you to maintain that throwing velocity. However, over time, this tends to decrease. To get it back or not to let it go more, there are a few things you can do:
Q & A – Icing a Pitcher’s Arm
Question: If a 12 yr old pitcher is going to pitch a game in the morning around 9:00a.m. and is scheduled to start again later in the afternoon, say around 4:00 p.m., is it advisable to ice her arm right after the 1st game or wait until she is done Read more
Q & A – Running Speed
Question: What is considered a good time from home to first-60ft? What conditioning exercises will help increase my speed?
Answer: To answer your first question, it all depends of your age. Based on college standards and this is only my own opinion… a decent speed should be under 3.4. Under 3.25 is considered fast. Under 3.2, it is fairly fast and if you are close to 3.0 or even under 3.0, you are in the elite running category for women’s softball players. You have to pay attention as to how to speed is measured and on which surface and when do you start the clock.
Q & A – Adding Hitting Power
Question: I’ve been playing slowpitch softball now for 2 years. I’m 5’10″, 160lbs, and in pretty good phyical shape. We use .44-.47 cor worth softballs. i play in 250-280-260 fields. I use a 28 oz bat. I have all kinds of warning track power, but i cant seem to be able to get that extra 10-20 feet. I’m thinking about the demarini chute? there are guys my size jacking out 40-50 HR a season. Do you have any advice on bat model, weight that could help? Even some basic training ideas would be greatly appreciated! THANKS!
Answer: Power is a result of strength and speed. In other words, it is how much force you put into the ball in the shortest amount of time. It is the action of “exploding” into the ball. There is one thing that is common to all ball players and even golfers, people who seek the long shot all the time seem to struggle more than the others at achieving it. Why is that if they have potentially more chance because of their talent and size?
There are many factors. Some of them are psychological but for my answer here, I will focus on the “physiological” aspect of it. Wanting to hit the ball too hard creates muscle tension prior to the swing and it is a well-known physiological principles that muscle tension slows the muscle down. So instead of creating speed, tension slow things down. Have you ever seen the best sprinter in the world in slow motion? If not, take a look at them. They are so relaxed that their muscles are firing up quickly. In order to generate explosiveness, bat speed, power.. you need to have your mind and nervous system alert but your muscles relaxed, ready to fire.
Q & A – Weight Training for Pitchers
Question: My daughter is 17 years old and going into her senior year in high school. What type of weight training exercises would you recommend for a pitcher?
Answer: There are many types of training that are important for a pitcher. First you have to look at the performance factors, in others words, what do pitchers need to perform and prevent injuries:
Q & A – Dynamic Stretching vs. Static Stretching
Question: We are settling in with our program and doing fine. I am confused about stretching. I have a book called “Sports Stretch” respecting static stretching. It seems this book is out of date as I keep hearing about “dynamic (active) stretching”. I guess the idea is to use active stretching prior to the pitching workout and use static stretching at the end. Do you know about this and if so can you provide an active stretching plan for a softball pitcher?
Answer: This book is not out of date. It is actually an excellent book. First of all, you have to make a distinction between warm-up and flexibility. The goal of a warm-up is to decrease injuries and improve performance wherever the goal of flexibility is to increase range of motion around a joint.
