At the end of each summer, players return from their summer teams or training regiments to their respective schools. Each player tends to use his time in the off-season a little differently. He can go off to the Northwoods and play 70+ games, cover his windows with trash bags to get sleep in the Can...
This post from our Coaches Series was written by Justin James, Assistant Coach at University of California, San Diego. He took over there in January 2017, having coached the previous two seasons at Point Loma Nazarene University. I took over the pitching staff at UC San Diego in early January 2017....
Part I of this series covered the basis of why the Push-Up is such a beneficial exercise for the developing baseball player – and really, any athlete in general. The benefits discussed ranged from teaching postural awareness to enhancing lumbopelvic control and trunk stability, from improving...
While every year, off-season, month, and week of training is vitally important to the development of the athlete, not all years are created equal. In fact, many might say that the training cycles that carry the most weight and significance are those that occur later in a career, when a player has ac...
The previous two parts of this series discussed both the intro and intermediate phases of my own progressions for core/trunk training. Part I specifically discussed what it actually means to train the “core” – or as we are calling it instead, the trunk – and how to build the...
When you’re a rookie-ball strength and conditioning coach – as I was during my time in professional baseball – you work with many young players. But, this is not at the exclusion of other players, as you’re also afforded the opportunity to see and interact with players of all...
There is only one way to make a baseball recruiting video for pitchers: give recruiters and pitching coaches all the information they need to make a decision in that video. Josh Fitch Recruiting Video Don’t let someone charge you money to create something that can be done with a phone and 30 m...
