This is a multi-pronged question I’ve been attacking for a long time. How would you go about training a HS 3rd baseman for increased speed? He’s playing summer ball and will have the fall semester off. Practices at least 3x a week (usually more), games on the weekend.
2 parts: 1) During the season how can he increase sprinting speed and maintain some sort of lifting protocol? I was thinking of having brief, 1-3 exercise workouts during the week, separated by several hours from the practices.
2) During the off season, how would he be able to work in sprinting with a westside style program (standard 4 days/week)?
I’m pretty experienced with strength/power aspects of training, but a lot less so on run/sprinting work. He needs more speed than muscle (he’s got a lot of that). What are the most beneficial runs for a baseball player? 50,100,200 meters?
Sorry for the long post, but I’ve been saving up questions. Thanks in advance!