Stair Strength and Conditioning Exercises
Variety is the essence of motivation and is also crucial to provide the body with new training stimulus in order to maximize results. This report introduce a different type of training that’s free and can be done almost everywhere using something you use everyday – stairs! It will provide with new training ideas and exercises to improve your muscular strength, power, and general conditioning.
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21-Day Express Shape-Up Workout
This 21-day express softball-specific workout program has been a best-seller for a few years. This workout program was specifically designed for softball players with only a few weeks to go before the beginning of their competitive season or who are already in the first few weeks of their competitive season but want to maximize their performance for the important competitions to come. It is short (about 20-30 minutes per workout) and requires only a few basic pieces of equipment – dumbbells, stability, and a medicine ball and is designed maximize your speed and power in 3 weeks!
Suited for just about any softball players, this fun workout is also a good first workout to do if you just starting to workout as a first introductory workout or if you want to establish a good foundation. Read more
Fitness Calculator – Target Heart Rate Range
This calculator will help you determine what your target heart rate range should be when doing your aerobic conditioning. It will calculate percent range of maximum heart rate or heart rate reserve based upon either actual maximum heart rate or age predicted heart rate.
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Fitness Calculator – Distance Run
This calculator is designed to measure your aerobic endurance or more specifically, your maximum aerobic power. The test is performance on a distance of 1.5 or 2 miles. It’s a maximum effort test where you complete the distance the chosen distance in the fastest time possible.
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Fitness Calculator – Calories Expended
In-Season Conditioning for Softball
Most athletes and coaches that are serious about the game do some form of strength and conditioning in the off-season. Their goal is to get faster, stronger and more powerful to be more dominant on the field. While they are serious about it in the off-season, a lot of them forget about it during the season.
It is somewhat understandable. Softball is a skills-based sport. You need to spend a lot of time on hitting, fielding, pitching and other skills to excel on the field. Strength and power without good fundamentals is useful. Physical qualities like strength and power helps players to enhance the execution of softball skills such as hitting, pitching, and throwing.
Softball Workout – The Bodyweight Workout
Sometimes you just don’t have access to any equipment to do a workout. That’s not a problem. You can do a pretty good workout using only bodyweight exercises. This full body workout includes bodyweight exercises only and will help you get a good full body workout anywhere anytime.
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Fitness Calculator – 12-Minute Run
This calculator is designed to measure your aerobic endurance or more specifically, your maximum aerobic power. It is an excellent field test that will require a maximum effort to test your aerobic power where you cover the most distance in 12 minutes.
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Performance System – Permanent Fat Loss for Softball
In the USA, it is estimated that roughly 2/3 of adults and 1/5 of children are overweight. The situation is similar in other western countries even although the numbers are usually a bit lower.
Being overweight, in addition to all the health risks and self-esteem problems that it brings, also prevents softball players of maximizing their performance on the field. They aren’t as fast, quick, or explosive as they could be. Softball is a sport that requires a lot of speed and power.
Softball Workout – Fast Bodyweight Workout
Do you lack time or access to equipment to workout during the summer? This is a good softball-specific workout that will allow you to get in shape without equipment and taking too much time.
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