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baseball work out...need some advice

jvilma51

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wats up guys i need some advice on a work out for this summer.....

i play college ball and our coach is pretty much free range on weight lifting...i have a set schedule for agility and all that other good stuff.... but as far as lifting i was looking for something sport specific...i stumbled upon this offseason baseball work out in a book.....it lasts 16 weeks i only have weeks 1-8 up right now but i will be able to get the rest up later tonite....

if you guys could take a look and tell me what u think it would be great.
just a reminder it is pulled straight from the book i did no altering.

thanks
 
My specialty. I was a pro pitcher, until my damn elbow went to hell. Tommy John and all that other shit.



What position do you play?
 
My hell, this Workout program is shit. Repeats every other day. Way too much especially since I assume you are practicing every single day plus daily conditioning.

Lift at maximum one body part or group every 4 days, meaning you lift and take 3 days off and go again on the same part. Every other day will burn you out quicker than you can say Mickey Mantle.

#1 Have a lot of high protein munchies readily available. Shakes and protein bars, eggs and chicken already cooked. Make sure you get enough food, and quality carbs Oatmeal and wheat bread. Sugars from gatorade and stuff are good during the game and practice, but off the field, stick the low GI carbs.

#2 Rotator cuff excercises should be done every single day. Don't use anything over 5 lbs if you are a pitcher. High rep very low weight. Having big tight shoulders will only bring complications to anyone that needs a strong throwing arm. the throwing motion is very violent.

Are you familiar with the 21? 3 sets of 7 different excercises for the rotator cuff daily. Low resistance weight, 20 reps.

As far as upper body movements, don't do anything heavier than you can complete 10 reps minimum every set, So if you can't do 10 reps on any excercise, it's too heavy. your goal isn't to be a muscle freak, it's to be lean, flexible and in shape. Flexibility is important. Lifting heavy weight low rep is going to compromise that. Don't do it. Heavy bench puts a lot of stress on the shoulders, not what a baseball player wants unless he's a DH. If you have a spotter, and he needs to help you do a lift, that's the last rep for that set, period.


I would stick to leg presses only. Squats can stress the knee too much if you are also doing daily conditioning, and agillity training. Leg extensions are fine, but going heavy also stresses the patelal ligament, which you don't need to injure. even the leg presses wil stress the knee, but do just those or just squats. I'd stick to leg presses though.

Basically, if you are dong a bunch of conditioning daily, doing anything more than some leg presses are going to push you to the edge of over doing it. your agility and speed training will strengthen your ham strings enough, so doing any type of lift to stress those directly is a bad idea.




If this were football, this all would be crappy advice, but you play baseball. You don't need to bench 400 lbs, you don't need to weigh 260.

I've seen so many guys through the ranks that decide they wanna lift to get huge, and get hurt in the process because the lifiting plus practice and conditioning overdoes it and they pull a muscle, or even tear something. It comes from over doing it, and lack of flexibility. Now, if you were on juice it's a different story, but I don't reccomend that especially since baseball is the witch in a witch hunt right now.


what's your height and weight etc?
 
i am right now at about 5'10 197 thats me in the pic....i am a third basemen and my secondary position would be 1b or dh.....

i am doing everyday conditioning and agility along with bp and tee work fielding ground balls ect. its just that now that i am tryin to lift specifically for the sport instead of ya kno just the run of the mill work out its been a little tough for me to find the right mix....

i really appreciate all your time and effort...

hope to hear from u guys soon
 
jvilma51 said:
i am right now at about 5'10 197 thats me in the pic....i am a third basemen and my secondary position would be 1b or dh.....

i am doing everyday conditioning and agility along with bp and tee work fielding ground balls ect. its just that now that i am tryin to lift specifically for the sport instead of ya kno just the run of the mill work out its been a little tough for me to find the right mix....

i really appreciate all your time and effort...

hope to hear from u guys soon


I was a pitcher myself, Rick Andersen (Minnesota Twins) was my coach when he was with the AAA team afew years back. He is a phenomenal coach. I was always told by any coach not to lift very heavy, and shoulder excercises should be done with very light weight, high rep.

As a 3rd baseman, and especially 1st/DH/C you can go for some mass. Honestly, I don't know exactly what to say because 3rd and 1st/DH are kind of different in training aspect. 5'10 197 is pretty good sized. Garciaparra is that size I think. as a 1B or DH, you could lift heavy and be good with that. But since a 3rd baseman requires a strong arm for those long throw from a backhand grounder, I would suggest being cautious about how intensley you lift your shoulder. It's complicated really.

I'll let Techbasbeall give his suggestions because i specialize in pitchers.

I know how rigorous training is, and weight training on top of that can be a bitch to cope with. I focused on core and legs rather than upper body as a pitcher, only emphasizing my shoulder as any UB excercising apart from throwing. The rest was just long toss and pen work, then conditioning. i was more worried about keeping solid mechanics and a strong core/legs vs. hitting bombs and being agile. My back up spot was OF cuz I ran a 6.7, but after being labled a pitcher, and getting tommy john, my ass was done.

Anyway, I would just stick to bench press, leg presses and any other fundamental exercises. No less than 10 reps per set, and if you can't do 10 reps back off on the weight a little. 3 maybe 4 sets per movement.

Now that I'm into bodybuilding my mindset is a bit different going purely for mass and strength, and I'm trying to activate my old baseball training mentality. Funny how that slips away if you don't use it.
 
Longhorn85 said:
Latest copy of Men's Health has articles by Derek Jeter and Jacoby Ellsbury


http://www.menshealth.com/cda/artic...item=a17a2979adaaf010VgnVCM10000013281eac____

thanks for the link...i already do stuff like that in my conditioning in agility part....i am jsut really trying to create a solid lifting program instead of spending the whole off season trying different things

thanks for the advice dabuffguy sorry to hear bout the tommy john that sux

hope to hear what techbaseball has to say... hope he can help...thanks
 
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