Swingtraining.net has officially been updated.  This blog has been imported and combined with the homepage, which will run together under the main url title - swingtraining.net

I've been working hard on a new site which should be a lot easier to update and operate.  It's functional at this point, but I'd still like to add a couple of things.  Coming soon....

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I just couldn't resist...




Even Tiger took a crack at it, but you shouldn't try this at home:

I spent last weekend taking in Perfect Game's WWBA event right here in Jupiter.  From everything I heard, this is/was the premier high school tournament in the country that brings the best players from all over to one spot.  That's pretty easy to believe if you've been to one of these things and you see the hundreds of scouts and college coaches.  The Roger Dean Stadium complex in Jupiter is home to the St. Louis Cardinals and Florida Marlins, with 6 minor league fields on each side, and when the event is in full swing there is action on all of the fields.  You can check out profiles on some of the players here.

I've also been playing some catch up as far as reading up on different internet resources and a number of different books that I've ordered.  Here are a couple of nice links that you should find useful:

SB Coaches College is a site created by three well known coaches in the S&C industry and it has tons of articles and other information.  For example, here is a quick piece on a college softball dynamic warm-up program.

The S&C staff at the College of Holy Cross has assembled a video library of exercises that they use in their program.

Check in for a couple of examples that I like...

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A quick review of a classic S&C book


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First, a long overdue congratulations to the Louisiana Tech Softball team, who won their first ever WAC conference championship back in May.  What a great group of hard-workers who pulled off multiple wins against ranked opponents to bring home the title. 

Along with another assistant, I got involved in directing the team's strength and conditioning program for the 2007-2008 season.  What we were very fortunate to be able to do was measure/test all kinds of physical and performance variables at the beginning and end our training.



I made a previous post about presenting a conference poster about our intial findings regarding the relationship of the players' physiological characteristics to the performance characteristics.  So after all this time, here is the actual poster that I presented:

Relationship between physiological characteristics and softball-specific variables of NCAA division I softball players

Big surprise, the girls who were bigger and stronger hit the ball harder!  It was nice to find some relationship between the variables, but the correlations are not great, with the highest r-squared value being .25

Almost 8 months since the last update?  Wow.  Suffice it to say that there's been quite a few things happening.

I plan on filling in parts of the gap and continuing to add information over the fall and winter.  If you have any thoughts/comments/requests, fire away....

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What types of strength and conditioning protocols are used in MLB?



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