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.
Performance System – Scientific Core Conditioning for Softball
It is a known fact that the trunk is highly involved in all major movements in softball. The trunk also plays a key role in the generation of rotational power, necessary for hitting, throwing and pitching. Every softball player needs a strong center of power not only to be successful on the field but also to prevent injuries. This is why proper abdominal training is so important.
This performance system explains why training the core is important, how it should be trained, and proposed a progression of the best core exercises for softball.
Performance System – Renegade Mindset Techniques for Softball
If you want to deliver elite performances on the softball field, you need mental toughness and the right mindset. This performance system by Stephen Ladd will show you how to master the mental game and become a peak performer. I’ve got to warn you: these are unorthodox techniques that aren’t common stream. They are a sport-specific adaptation of the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), quite popular in the alternative health movement. They will help you induce relaxations, eliminate your fears and negative beliefs, and allow you to pay at your full potential – often in minutes.
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Performance System – Static Stretching for Softball
Just like strength, speed, or power, flexibility is a physical quality important to all softball players. It helps improve all aspects of the game (hitting, throwing, fielding, running speed, etc.) and prevent injuries.
Unfortunately, most softball players don’t spend enough time doing flexibility training. Static stretching is the easiest and one of the most effective flexibility training method.
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.
