Baseball Content

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Hey Guys,

As many of you probably know, I deal with a ton of baseball players - and it influences my writing in a lot of ways. That said, I finally got around to organizing all my baseball content in one place, in case you are interested:

http://www.ericcressey.com/baseballcontent.html

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Cressey, you are the man.

From a HS ballplayer doing everything he can to play high level college baseball.

Thank you!

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Glad you liked it. I’m planning to do more and more writing in this regard, so if you have areas that you’d like covered, I’m all ears.

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Eric,

First of all, great information. If I might suggest a topic to go over a little bit, it would be the differences between stressors of approximation and traction.

I have found your stuff, along with he Inside-Out DVD, very helpful but also wonder what sort of adjustments I might make in training volleyball players.

The swing is very similar to a pitcher’s throwing motion, in some respects, but there is obviously much less hip involvement (as the player is in the air and thus obviously not able to push off the ground) and at moment of contact there is obviously a strong approximation force.

Maybe I’m getting a little greedy there, but if you ever get any content on that (I’m guessing it would also apply to tennis players to some extent) I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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[quote]Eric Cressey wrote:
Glad you liked it. I’m planning to do more and more writing in this regard, so if you have areas that you’d like covered, I’m all ears.[/quote]

The one that’s been on my mind lately…

How do you address a coach about his archaic preparation methods and magazine style workouts?

We put it 3 miles runs and our mandatory workouts are built off a continuous rotation of superset stations that totals 30 exercises (mostly isolation exercises) all at 3x10 scheme. We’re tested on 1RM bench and we’re not allowed to squat.

I mean I’ve spent hundred of hours reading and learning about S&C and this kind of stuff makes me want to put my head through the darn mirrors that I have to watch our 150lb’ers flex in, while they get their “crazy pumps.”

Feel free to disregard the first question, the following are much more training related…

  • What are your thoughts on baseball players using a sledge for training?

  • Would you consider hip/shoulder separation when pitching or hitting to be rotation of the lumbar or thoracic spine?

  • Is the following thought process correct… By teaching the body to resist rotation, one can then create more torque when creating rotation when pitching or hitting?

The popular thing for baseball seems to be to train rotation a ton, but I’ve never seen you as a big proponent of that. (Although this may be incorrect if I have misunderstood the location of rotation in the spine) And well in personal experience, I’ve been performing better after throwing out rotational stuff.

  • Also, how about a pitcher using Maximum Strength? I have your book, and well quite frankly information and ideas (especially the warmups) picked up are already totally worth it. I get the feeling i would need to do some tweaking with the back squatting and the overhead pressing? Can I get a little direction in that regard?

Thanks for your time Eric. I really appreciate it.