Baseball Pitching: Preparing For 2012 Season
January 5, 2012
Working with 13U pitchers
January 16, 2012
As you may have read in previous newsletters you know it can be challenging to find the very best pitching workouts that suit your personal needs. It takes some trial and error before you find out what works.
On that note, there are a few “musts” that you need to add to your repertoire like light dumbbell work, elastic bands, core stability training, functional strength exercises, sprint work, plyo’s and agility work. What you want to add to your training after that is up to you and your individual goals.
If you need to lose more body fat to be more explosive to the plate; you need to add more cardio to your workouts. To ensure you stick to a program, make sure you are creative with cardio work. Most pitchers just run and that can be boring; especially if that’s your only form of cardio. Besides, pitchers aren’t long distance runners anyway, we are sprinters.
There are many exercises you can do to ensure you get plenty of cardio.
Here are a few ideas:
Start the insanity program (that takes care of cardio, functional strength training, core stability and can take place for sprint work for a period of time as well)
In the off season you can do p90X.
Play any sport that will increase your heart rate for off and on for 30 minutes or more like basketball, racquetball, skiing etc.
The important thing is you have fun working out so you will stick to it and stay consistent.
In our DVD series we show you exactly what you need to do to get into shape for the season. We show you light dumbbell work, core strength training exercises, elastic band exercises and much more to help you keep up with the demands that pitching requires.
Some of the pitching specific workouts in our DVD series you may find repetitive (like dumbbell and band work) but very important to do so you can stay healthy throughout the season. Because of the repetition, we highly recommend you workout with a partner. Someone who is goal oriented just like you and won’t throw in the towel.
If you are 100% ready to have your best year yet in 2012 and are hungry for great pitching workouts that will improve your game; we are confident we can help you achieve that goal.
