The first reason to take an off-season is a big one: health and durability. Despite the ongoing injury epidemic in baseball, many stubbornly continue to ignore the research that clearly demonstrates what a catalyst for injury playing year round is (PMID: 16452269 PMID: 29630388 PMID: 26797699). The simplest way to reduce injury rates: take a break from playing! The second reason is development. If you have traits: ie genetic talent that allows you to be more successful than y

If you play sports, you won't always feel perfect Every athlete deals with aches/discomforts and pains Every athlete at some point ends up on the IL That’s life   The difference is that athletes who thought playing “low contact” sports like baseball was their ticket to never experience any discomfort or any pain, often overreact when they don’t feel absolutely perfect   Instead of making simple modifications and adjustments, they stop everything and get lost in the physical

We recently had an athlete join that came in with an all too familiar backstory: injury from his team workouts He had been told that the team workout for the day was “go heavy” and he had loaded up the bar with a weight he guessed to be “heavy” Little to no warmup, the coach busy with other athletes, and a teammate unsure how to properly spot him He squatted down with it, and then dumped the bar over his neck on the way up The back pain was so intense he wasn’t able to practi

The main reason why so many athletes fail to get much out of their workout’s is simple: their workouts consists of working out, not training. An athletes improvement comes from two places: GPP, and SPP. GPP (General Physical Preparation) is non specific work that improves the athletes ability to produce more force. This will manifest in sprinting faster, hitting balls farther, and throwing harder. SSP (Specific Sport Preparation) is specific work to the sport: hitting BP, tak

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Unfortunately every athlete at some point ends up on the IL Thats because the more an athlete is exposed to the competitive environment;...

Recent question from a HS varsity coach: “Should we be overhead pressing or “training shoulders” in our team workouts?” The answer is...

Unless you understand periodization and how to correctly combine means and methods, most programs look pretty good on paper But even many...

A .158 batting average at a dinky JC-with the icing on top of a broken hand at the end of the season-would’ve been enough for many baseball kids to quit For Park though, it was the beginning The truth is every moment of adversity there is a simultaneous seed planted for the virtue of its matching In this case it was his broken hand, as it forced him to take a gap year And in that gap is when everything changed Park asked that in his gap as he rehabbed and trained around his h