Running poles, “triangles”, and the other endurance based activities that go on at the low levels of baseball is a complete misunderstanding of the bio-energetic demands of the sport.
Baseball is NOT a lactic sport
It’s an Alactic-Anaerobic sport
It’s pitch, followed by rest. Pitch, rest. Pitch, rest.
So what baseball players need is not low output lactic based endurance training like running poles that robs the body of critical Type II muscle fiber, but rather, to develop alactic work capacity
The faster you regenerate creatine phosphate, when the next intense bout of activity comes (the next pitch), you have more adenosine triphosphate available for that next output.
Train the energy system of YOUR sport!!
-Fenske
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