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What Does “Sport-Specific” Actually Mean in Baseball?
No matter where you go – from baseball facilities, to gyms, weight rooms, and of course, the ball field itself – when baseball training is spoken of, the term “Sport Specific” or “Baseball Specific” is nearly always pitched aggressively. Coaches vigorously offer sport-specific training, and parents eat up that buzz-phrase by putting their money where Read more
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Movement Prep Made Simple: Evolving the High School Baseball Warm-Up
I still remember jogging out to the centerfield fence with my high school teammates at the start of every practice to begin our “warm-up”. After reaching the twelve-foot fence and jumping up to touch as high as we could, we proceeded to create the same a sloppy circle each day in deep center — the stretch circle. We’d Read more
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Sport-Specific Training vs. General Physical Prep for the High School Athlete
We’ve all heard the spiel before… Usually, it’s the father of the high school freshman or sophomore ballplayer you can hear, his voice boisterously booming above the other conversations taking place in the crowded bleachers behind home plate. The parent is proudly describing to another the training his kid is undertaking off of the field. Read more
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Developing Strength in High School Athletes — Relative vs. Absolute Strength
It probably goes without saying for most that strength is a vital component for athletes. Put as simply: Strength is a precursor for power, and power is strongly associated with most other desirable athletic traits. In other words, strength may not be the physiological trait that we want expressed on the field (there are not Read more
Ryan J. Faer 