Softball Workout: 4-Minute Body Weight Videos
Want to raise your fitness level so you can perform even better on the field?
Are you short on time like most softball players? Don’t have access to a gym or fancy equipment? No problem!
Softball Playground Workout
Are you lacking time, money, equipment, and/or fitness facilities to workout and get in shape for softball?
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.
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:
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
Developing Strength and Power for Fastpitch Softball
This is a great report on the development of strength and power for fastpitch softball – the driving force of the game. The report discusses the importance of strength and power for softball, the specific needs of softball players, and position-specific considerations.
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Core Training for Softball Pitchers
The core plays a key role in the softball pitching motion. In addition to preventing injuries, it also helps increase speed and accuracy by (a) transferring the forces produced by the lower body to the upper body, (b) creating rotational power, and (c) stabilizing the body during the pitching motion.
Most softball pitchers have a deficient core meaning that their core is not strong or stable enough to maximize performance. This reports provides additional information on the importance of the core for pitchers and will show you several excellent exercises to train it.
Scientific Proof – Post-Exercise Muscle Soreness Decreases Speed, Power and Acceleration
Softball is a sport that requires a tremendous amount of speed, power, and acceleration. Strength training is used to improve these essential qualities.
When working hard enough in the weight room or starting a new training program, you usually experienced delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) or post-exercise muscle soreness. You know you have post-exercise muscle soreness when you feel like you’re discovering “new muscles” and have some stiffness 24-48 hours after a new or intense workout.
Scientific Proof – Strength Training Increases Base Running Speed
Recently, I came across a scientific article on the specificity of sport training for the enhancement of base running speed in softball players.
In other words, the researchers wanted to know: does strength training increases base running speed?
