Your Baseball Hitting Workouts


For most baseball players, the fall and winter months are reserved for relaxing, practicing and recouping.  Many players play in a fall league, but what if you aren’t playing right now?  How about during the regular season?  What are you doing about your baseball hitting workouts?

By working out I don’t mean practicing your hitting and fielding.  That is extra.  I mean conditioning and strengthening your body.  A lot of folks claim that baseball is not hard on the body but I can testify that they are wrong.  You use just about every muscle in the body to play baseball and for most players the seasons are long with many games are played per week.  It isn’t a 10 game season.

This means that you need to prepare your body with an off-season workout.  Let me speak to players in high school and up.  You should do your best to participate in some sort of cardio activity three days per week for at least 20 minutes each time.  This will be good to build endurance and stamina.  You can run, use the elliptical or even run sprints.

You should also look into lifting weights three days per week.  You don’t need to get huge but you do need to strengthen your muscles and get stronger each season.  Just try a full body workout targeting each muscle group.  Switch things up each time you workout so that your muscles don’t get used to any certain exercise.

Your body will thank you if you take care of it and you will see improved results during your baseball season.  Before you think about skipping your off-season workout for eating chips and playing video games all day, think about February when you’re practicing with your team for the first week.  Are you going to be the guy behind everyone else or are you going to be one of the leaders?

As far as your baseball hitting workouts during the season, you should do a maintenance program.  I know that you have school, part time jobs and other activities but you should sneak in a workout at least five days per week.  Your body will thank you if you take care of it.

My years of experience playing and teaching baseball hitting will help you with the challenge of learning how to hit a baseball correctly.  Articles such as the one you just read will inform and motivate you to a better understanding of proper baseball hitting whether you are a coach, parent or ballplayer.  Check back here for upcoming
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Jeff Wise

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