After a quiet, sleep filled break from classes, I'm getting back into action this weekend with a little road trip to the NSCA Sport Specific Conference in San Antonio, TX.  This year's conference covers soccer, football and baseball.  Guess: which one I am interested in?

Actually, I would like to attend the sports-vision and power development presentations for football, but there are a couple of baseball presentations going on at the same time.  One on friday is going to be presented by none other than Tom House, whose topic is Rotational Strength, Endurance and Flexibility for Throwers.  Should be interesting.

Dr. Szymanski has a 2 hour presentation on increasing throwing velocity, which we already got to hear in class.  Interestingly, it covers all of the research that has been done on improving throwing velocity and then goes over some applications.  For anyone who still says there is no documented research on using weighted baseballs to increase throwing velocity for baseball......well, that is not the case!

I am also looking forward to hearing Perry Castellano (head S&C for the Twins) presenting "Power is not Size".

Here is the full rundown of presenters and topics:

Friday

Saturday


Looking forward to learning some new things...

Happy New Year