This is Part 1 of a 3-part series on gaining power faster through nutrition: Part 1 – [You Are Here] – How To Turn Throwing 86-mph Into 95-mph In 8-Months…With Nutrition… Part 2 – The Right Nutrient Timing, Gain Power Faster! Part 3 – Nutrition Optimization To Throw Faster and Hit Bombs – The Throw Cheese Nutrient System Zach […]
Attn: Baseball & Softball Coaches or Parents… I’m sure you’ve heard the following: “Power is ALL in the hips”, “Load and explode the hips”, and “The hips lead the way”… Well, I’m here to say I’ve fallen for the same misleading claims that the hips hold the secret to repeatable power. After digging into the […]
8 Critical Principles to Coaching Youth Baseball Revealed And these principles don’t JUST work for coaching youth baseball. These “rules” work for coaching youth fastpitch softball as well. And the word “youth” doesn’t discriminate between a 7-year-old OR a 24-year-old. They work at ANY level. And ANY sport for that matter! We’re talking principles here people […]
Bownet: The Swiss Army Knife Of Hitting Nets Recently, I’ve had a few hitting lessons during the week where we have to hit at an outdoor field with lights because it gets dark too soon. At this field, there are two nice tunnel hitting cages, and the park rents the field and facilities out to […]
Hint, hint…it has to do with balance! This is a bonus to our Why Your Balance Fails series on balance. I will be discussing: The balance of pyramids, The lateral movement of dancers, and Mike Trout Slow-motion perfect balance during the stride… The Balance of Pyramids Pyramids have a capstone that is centered over […]
Baseball Training: 3 Easy Steps To More Barrel Time On Pitch Plane (Dylan’s Case Study) I’ve heard during baseball training a thousand times, “Be short to the ball!” If I put a nickel away every time I heard that, then I’d have my 3 old son’s first year at Stanford saved up. A barrel […]
Pitching Instruction: 3 Simple Factors to Great Hitting (Madison Bumgarner Approved) I want to focus on Madison Bumgarner of the San Francisco Giants, and how the pitching instruction he’s received may help hitters develop repeatable power. Pitching instruction for hitters! I read somewhere that when Ted Williams was asked how a hitter could get […]
(Thank you Tim Ferris of FourHourBlog.com)… This blog is not primarily financially driven. I put it up in 2007 to build a community and learn from smart readers. Regardless, beginning December 1, 2009, the FTC requires bloggers to disclose whenever there could be hidden interests or unspoken biases related to recommendations. So here goes… First, […]
Baseball Hitting Case Study: Cole Watts – 17-years-old Cole’s dad Matt contacted me about setting up two in-person 45-minute lessons with a break between. They were coming from the Bay Area, which is about a 2.5 hours drive from me. Cole had been getting instruction from a Mike Epstein certified instructor, and they both […]
Adam Jones: TWO Actionable Tactics To Decrease Strikeouts I wanted to compare two hitters who have reversed walk and strikeout percentages. Adam Jones and Victor Martinez. Can efficient OR inefficient mechanics have an effect on a hitter’s strikeout rate? In this post we’ll: Compare & contrast key offensive statistics, Actionable tactic #1: how low […]
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