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Baseball Training Articles

These baseball training articles are powerful information for all baseball players from pitchers to position players. These baseball articles are FREE to the public and they are listed from newest to oldest. Like the pitching articles they also include the foundation to the revolutionary approach to pitching velocity called 3X Pitching. This approach is as much a power training approach as it is a power pitching mechanics approach.

The Fusion System is both used in the 3X Pitching Velocity programs and the Baseball Training Manual. To learn more about this approach to training the baseball player to become bigger, stronger and faster read the articles below.

Strength Development Before Power Pitching Motor Skill Training

In the case of all power pitchers or athletes, to prevent wasting precious time when learning a power movement like pitching at high velocities, it is important to understand that strength or power development must come before the power motor skills of the power pitching mechanics. Attempting to train the power motor skills before the pitcher has the strength or power to move through them efficiently and effectively, is not just a total waste of time but it also can end ones pitching career. Read more

Baseball Workout for Pitchers

There are hundreds of thousands of workouts for athletes on the web. All you have to do is go to Amazon.com and purchase some training device, like resistance tubing, and “BAM” you got yourself a workout with instructional DVD to go with the device. You can also stay up late at night and wait for the “P90X” or “Insane” infomercial to come on TV. The Internet and TV has bombarded you with workouts for everything. Workouts to make you bigger, workouts to make you quicker, workouts to make you jump higher, workouts to make you throw harder and on and on. This site is also full of workouts with similar claims. I am not knocking these workouts, I just want to help you pick and choose the correct one. Here is a good strategy to start weeding through these countless workouts all claiming to make you a better player.

How to find the perfect workout for the pitcher?

If you could grab a handful of these workouts or programs that you find interesting on the web or TV and put them into an excel spreadsheet so we could filter out what we want and don’t want in them, then the filtering would go something like this. Read more

Baseball Strength Training Program

If you want to play at the next level then you are going to have to increase your ability to generate power. Power is measured as both speed and strength. Increasing your bodies ability to generate power, along with total body mechanics, will enhance your potential to hit the ball farther, throw the ball harder and run a lot faster. Studies have proven that heavy load training is the most effective way to increase your bodies ability to generate power. This is because heavy load training is more effective in remodeling fast twitch muscle fiber and developing more motor units. The problem here is most baseball coaches do not believe in this style of training. They believe that this style of training makes the ball player tight and bulky. If you have a training program that uses low reps with heavy load training then hypertrophy will be minimal. This means you will get a lot stronger and faster instead of just bigger. Even though size has been proven to enhance performance. Read more

Baseball Workouts to Make You Bigger, Stronger, Faster

In the game of baseball, all skills require small muscle groups moving big muscle groups. This means you must use a strength and conditioning program that not only develops you to become Bigger, Stronger, Faster but it builds joint integrity as well. Most training programs neglect either the effectiveness of training the big muscle groups and only isolates the small muscle groups and vice verse. A training program that is built around both muscle groups is far superior to the others.

It is important to also make sure that you are educated in the mechanics of the lifts. The Olympic lifts are some of the most powerful lifts in the weight room to training the athlete to grow Bigger, Stronger, Faster. These lifts though are as intricate as learn proper throwing or hitting mechanics. You must spend as much time learning these lifting mechanics as you spend learning your throwing or hitting mechanics. This would mean you need a program that comes with a trainer who is educated enough to coach these lifts or a training video that will replace the trainer. You will find some great training videos below along with the baseball training programs. Read more

MLB Using Glorified Physical Therapy Instead of Explosive Strength Training

In my last interview with the legendary guru of Speed and Strength Training, from D1 Sports in Tennessee, Kurt Hester, stated that Major League Baseball is using glorified physical therapy instead of strength and conditioning. This was a shot at the lame approach to training and rehabilitating athletes in the MLB organizations. This is coming from a guy who trains some of NFL’s most explosive athletes and who was label as Gorilla Ball, when he was training the LSU tigers in the 90′s.

Kurt says that fear is a major problem with baseball players. They train the way they do because of the fear that comes from the higher levels of the game. He also says that if young baseball players trained like Major League ball players, they would never get better. The fear is that weight training, especially heavy weight training, will make you bulky and will cause injury. Kurt says the MLB’s athletic trainers are running glorified physical therapy programs and not actually training their athletes to become bigger, stronger and faster.  This is why I believe top draft picks and big salary pitcher’s like Mark Prior leave the league with a career ending injury, after only 3 years in the show, and never make it back. Read more

Workout,Training and Pitching Articles

Use these baseball training articles to better understand how you must develop the baseball player to increase speed and velocity. These baseball articles use a wide range of exercises and lifts to train the baseball player to reach his potential. The difference between these baseball training articles and the pitching articles is that the baseball articles also cover information for positions players.

Topvelocity.net is a Baseball Pitching and velocity improvement training program. Our main offerings include: a Pitching Velocity Program along with tips and articles to increase a pitchers velocity and online Pitching Video Analysis for players.

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