Baseball Speed Training for Maximum Velocity Running
June 1, 2008 by BaseballSpeed
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Speed Training – Maximum Velocity Running by Patrick Beith CSCS, PES, USATF Lv. II Training speed is more then just working on acceleration and trying to sprint as fast as possible. You must actually coach your athletes how to run and stay relaxed, especially when they are running at top speed. Maximum Velocity is another [...]
Provide Power With These Baseball Exercises
March 15, 2008 by BaseballSpeed
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Exercises Required to Provide Power When training speed, the glutes and hamstrings are the primary muscles used to generate the force and power required for success. In order to get the most out of these muscles, athletes must learn to get full extension through the hips when they run. In this week’s chapter of the [...]
How To Improve Baseball Acceleration
March 1, 2008 by BaseballSpeed
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Acceleration Speed is a product of stride length (the distance your hips travel in a stride) and stride frequency (the number of steps you take in a given time period). However, you will not reach top speed by focusing on increasingly larger steps to increase stride length or taking short, quick steps to increase stride [...]
