Body Rotational Power Thoracic Spine Strength, Mobility, & Stretching At Home Exercises For Baseball & Softball
Learn how to improve your body rotational power with thoracic spine strength, mobility, and stretching exercises you can do at home for baseball and softball players.
Where Stride Landing Counter-Rotation Is And How To Get It (Flexibility & Strength Exercises)
This video post is going to answer the following reader question:
“What flexibility work do you do with your trainees to enhance counter-rotation of the torso as the foot lands open?”
This questions stems from how I teach hitters to ‘show their numbers’ to the pitcher during the load, as close to stride landing as possible. But for this to work, here’s the kicker, the hitter MUST land open with the bottom half…front foot open between 45 and 60-degrees.
This creates what some coaches call torque, or counter-rotation of the shoulders-to-pelvis. These are basic walking mechanics of the spine…and is why, as your right leg swings forward, so does your left arm. How do we optimize this action with our hitters using flexibility and strengthening?
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Why am I putting myself through this training?
#1: as my wife will tell you, this is a gross obsession of mine.
And #2: I wanted to pick up a few things about body-weight training mobility and stability for my hitters.
One of my guiding principles is if you aren’t growing, then you’re dying.
And if you’re a coach that takes mentoring young athletes seriously, then you MUST be subscribing to the same proactive learning principles.
So, in the above video, we go over:
- Rotation v. Anti-Rotation (acceleration v. braking systems)
- Rotation stretch – hold each side for at least 30-secs
- Rotation strengthen:
- Windshield Wipers – do 10 repetitions each side
- Anti-Rotation strengthen:
- Side Plank (anti-side bend) – start off with holding for 30-secs, then increase by 15-secs after mastery
- 3-Point Plank (anti-rotation of pelvis) – start off holding for 30-secs, then increase by 15-secs after mastery.
ENJOY!
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