By Joey Myers | HittingPerformanceLab.com | Former D1 Baseball, Fresno State If you’ve been telling a hitter “keep your hands up” and the problem keeps coming back — it’s because that cue is trying to fight a load-phase movement pattern with a verbal reminder. Hands drop is specifically a stride fault: the hands sink from […]
By Joey Myers | HittingPerformanceLab.com | Former D1 Baseball, Fresno State Here’s the problem with a 14–16 week college baseball season: most D2, D3, NAIA, and JuCo players stop lifting when February practices start, grind through a brutal conference schedule, and arrive at regionals having lost 15–20% of the strength they spent all fall building. […]
By Joey Myers | HittingPerformanceLab.com | Former D1 Baseball, Fresno State Here’s what happens to most high school baseball players who stop lifting when the season starts: by Week 6 of a 10-week season, they’ve lost 15–20% of the strength they built all off-season. By playoff time, they’re running on empty — slower bat speed, […]
By Joey Myers | HittingPerformanceLab.com | Former D1 Baseball, Fresno State Most off-season programs for college baseball athletes are built for Power Five weight rooms — Olympic platforms, dedicated strength coaches, and bumper plate sets you only find at schools with eight-figure athletic budgets. If you’re competing at the D2, D3, NAIA, or JuCo level, […]
If you’re a Division I baseball player looking for a D1 baseball workout program PDF you can actually take to the weight room, this is it. Not a general athlete plan recycled from a fitness blog. A sport-specific, 12-week off-season program built around the three things that actually drive performance at the D1 level: multi-joint […]