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Warm-up and Preparation for Training and Competition! - AZ215
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Vern Gambetta 1996 • 32 minutes • $39.95 • Item # AZ 215 Vern Gambetta, former Chicago White Sox conditioning coach, shows you basic warm-up, lateral speed and agility warm-up, proprioceptive warm-ups, continuous warm-up and cool down. Shown are dynamic exercises in proper sequence from the simple to the most complex. Appropriate for enhancing performance and preventing injury and can be used for all sports and rehabilitation settings. Also included are functional movement skills, and balance/proprioception exercises.
Training and Conditioning for Baseball Video - SB123
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Bob Alejo and Barry Weinberg 44 minutes • $29.95 • Item # SB 123 Featuring Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi, Dennis Eckersley, JD Drew and Tony LaRussa. Includes warm-up forward, backward and in-place (for bad weather and indoor circumstances), lateral improvement exercises, baseball-specific reaction drills, combination exercises that transition from athletic development to baseball skills. According to Mark McGwire, \"From little leaguers to big leaguers this conditioning program is the best that you can get for anybody that wants to play baseball. I recommend it.\"
The ULTIMATE SOFTBALL/BASEBALL CONDITIONING LIBRARY
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Get all the back issue for one money saving price. Newsletters V.1 #1 to V.8 #5 complete More than 290 Articles authored by hundreds of leading baseball/softball conditioning experts. Ordered individually you would pay $216. Web Price: $139.00 plus $12.00 Shipping. Save more than $75.00
The Pitching Edge Video - SB104V
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Tom House 54 min • $29.95 • Item # SB 104V The Pitching Edge covers the three keys to pitching success. Part I Techniques, shows how to apply pitching mechanics using state-of-the-art 3-D motion analysis. Part II Training, describes the latest methods of conditioning the pitcher’s total body and throwing arm emphasizing injury prevention. Part III Thinking, revels the author’s practical guidelines for learning mental toughness, preventing game and post game anxiety and achieving consistency.
The Pitching Edge Book and Video - SB104BV
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Tom House 54 min • 168 Pages • $44.95 • Item # SB104BV The Pitching Edge covers the three keys to pitching success. Part I Techniques, shows how to apply pitching mechanics using state-of-the-art 3-D motion analysis. Part II Training, describes the latest methods of conditioning the pitcher’s total body and throwing arm emphasizing injury prevention. Part III Thinking, revels the author’s practical guidelines for learning mental toughness, preventing game and post game anxiety and achieving consistency.
The Pitching Edge Book - SB104B
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Tom House 168 Pages • $17.95 • Item # SB 104B The Pitching Edge covers the three keys to pitching success. Part I Techniques, shows how to apply pitching mechanics using state-of-the-art 3-D motion analysis. Part II Training, describes the latest methods of conditioning the pitcher’s total body and throwing arm emphasizing injury prevention. Part III Thinking, revels the author’s practical guidelines for learning mental toughness, preventing game and post game anxiety and achieving consistency.
Straight Ahead Speed - SR103
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Vern Gambetta and Steve Odgers 26 min • $29.95 Item # SR 103 These videos, produced by two of the world\'s leading experts on speed development, offer a vast menu of practical, proven speed develop exercises that can be done right on the soccer field with little or no equipment for skilled players at all levels male or female.
Straight Ahead Speed & Lateral Speed and Agility for Soccer-Videos and Booklet - SR105
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Vern Gambetta and Steve Odgers Tapes 1 & 2 $54.00 Item # SR 105 Booklet 5-Ways to Improve Soccer Speed included with any order! These videos, produced by two of the world\'s leading experts on speed development, offer a vast menu of practical, proven speed develop exercises that can be done right on the soccer field with little or no equipment for skilled players at all levels male or female. Tape 1 covers straight ahead speed. Tape 2 covers lateral speed and agility. The 5 Ways to Improve Soccer Speed booklet makes the videos soccer specific by providing a six-week soccer soccer speed training program from the exercises shown in the videos. This package offers the most comprehensive soccer speed development program available anywhere.
Speed/Agility Ladder Footwork Drills - AZ214
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Vern Gambetta, Steve Myland 1997 • 28 minutes • $29.95 • Item # AZ 214 Turn a simple ladder in an important performance tool. Learn how to improve first step and lateral quickness, balance and mobility. Perfect for baseball/softball, soccer, volleyball and other sports where foot work is critical to being in position to win the play. Exercises can easily be incorporated into practice on the field, beach, or in the gym.
Softball Stretches Poster Paper - SB106P
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Bob Anderson 22\'\'x34\'\' • 32 illus • $4.95 • Item # SB 106P From the famous stretching author Bob Anderson, this poster provides two complete illustrated stretching programs — one before the other after practice/games.
Softball Stretches Poster Laminated - SB106L
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Bob Anderson 22\'\'x34\'\'• 32 illus • $12.95 • Item # SB 106L From the famous stretching author Bob Anderson, this poster provides two complete illustrated stretching programs — one before the other after practice/games.
Power Training for Sports: Plyometrics for Maximum Power Development - AZ201
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Tudor O. Bompa, Ph.D. 1995 • 166 pp (6X9) • over 200 illus • $19.95 • Item #AZ 201 This valuable resource provides an in-depth look at plyometrics to improve explosive power, quick reaction and the strength needed to absorb the shock of balanced landings. You will learn proven exercise progressions and how to develop effective short- and long-term planning models. Step-by-step illustrations show you how.
Performance Conditioning Baseball/Softball Newsletter
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Twelve pages • seven times a year • Item # SB 999 A Newsletter dedicated to improving baseball and softball players. Serving Baseball and Softball with the latest conditioning information for over 3 years! Brought to you in cooperation with the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and the National High School Baseball Coaches Association. Featuring top professional, collegiate, high school baseball and softball conditioning programs! Provides coaches, athletes and parents of both baseball and softball players the latest information to improve athletic skills: power flexibility/mobility, speed, eye-hand coordination, balance etc. Also enhances baseball/softball skills (throwing, hitting, running, etc.) to achieve the goal of building better skilled baseball and softball athletes. Learn from major league and professional baseball and softball players and coaches. Easy to use format with understandable charts and illustrations and step-by-step checklists. Timely seasonal information presented seven times a year. • Footwork development — position specific. • Achieve perfect balance, position and timing at the plate. • Post-game recovery for pitchers. • Improving throwing velocity and accuracy for pitching and field play. • Athletic skill tests to measure your progress. • Improve your first step base runner and field play speed. • Strength training for the shoulders and hips for pitchers. • Rotational range of motion stretching and strengthening exercises for hitters. • Building tracking abilities of the pitch and outfield ball play. • Regaining confidence after a bad outing for pitchers. • Throwing programs between starts. • In-season weight training — should it be done and how? • Off-season running — position specific programs. • Pre-game warm-up and during game maintenance. • Off-season strength program for adding power without bulk. • Plyometrics for baseball/softball.Creatine and other nutritional supplement use. • Avoid ankle sprains and other injuries. • Revolutionary coding system with each article telling the appropriate training level based on a player’s training age — beginning, intermediate or advanced. • Improve double play quickness. • Improving bat speed. • Visualization techniques. • Mastering the mental game. PLUS Get the Pro Baseball/Softball Conditioning Digest. • Interviews — In-depth looks at today's latest conditioning methods and why they are done. • Questions and Answers — Most frequently asked questions about how the best train and why they train as they do. • Favorite Exercises of the Coaches/Stars — Glimpses of conditioning-related exercises done by top players and coaches to improve their performance. Presented in detail. • Scouting Report — Learn what top coaches and scouts look for when evaluating players. Plus, what players need to do to impress, get noticed, and what areas they should work on.
Legs, Legs, Legs Video - AZ207
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Vern Gambetta 50 min. • $39.95 • Item # AZ 207 Gain climbing strength and sprinting power without increase in muscle size using this innovative approach to leg training. A vast array of exercises are shown, all done with minimal or no equipment. The exercises improve leg strength, joint stability, cycling performance, and prevent or rehabilitate injury. Closed chain, body weight, rubber band and dynamic mobility exercises are shown.
Lateral Speed and Agility - SR104
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Vern Gambetta and Steve Odgers 29 min • $29.95 Item # SR 104 These videos, produced by two of the world\'s leading experts on speed development, offer a vast menu of practical, proven speed develop exercises that can be done right on the soccer field with little or no equipment for skilled players at all levels male or female. Tape 1 covers straight ahead speed.
Jump, Jump, Jump Video - VB106
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Vern Gambetta and Steve Odgers 1994 • 35 minutes • $39.50 • Item # VB 106 This video emphasizes teaching plyometrics with minimum chance of injury and safe progressions. Choose from a menu of exercises, which include lateral movement as well as jumping. Ideal for establishing a plyometric training program for baseball/softball players.
Insta-Kit Pitching Performance (Softball) - SB118
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Multiple Authors•8 articles•Item #SB 118 Get 10 of our best and most popular training articles and presented so you can start your program now! This kit will focus on improving your softball pitching performance and prevent injury with special considerations to overuse. Included are strength/stability training, conditioning and throwing programs all explained in day to day detail. All program can be done right on the field with minimum equipment for easy administration and cost savings. Also contains special focus on wrist, hand and finger strength to achieve great snap in pitching. Includes an index of each article and how you can use it to establish your program. #1: Body Link Training for the Pitcher-The Lower Body #2: Body Link Training for the Pitcher- the Upper Body #3: Body Link Training for the Pitcher- the Core #4: Mid-Season Conditioning on a Four Day a Week Softball Pitching Schedule#5: Knowing the Pitcher's Fatigue Point and How to Manage It #6: Exercises to Improve Hand Wrist Strength for Baseball/Softball #7: Improving Finger and Hand Actions for Pitching #8: Long Toss Training Progression for Arm Strength Development
Insta-Kit Pitching Performance (Baseball) - SB117
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Multiple Authors•8 articles•Item # SB 117 Get 10 of our best and most popular training articles and presented so you can start your program now! This kit will focus on improving your baseball pitching performance and prevent injury. Included are strength/stability training, conditioning and throwing programs all explained in day to day detail. All program can be done right on the field with minimum equipment for easy administration and cost savings. Also feature are favorite exercise of two of the rising star pitchers in the game today! Includes an index of each article and how you can use it to establish your program. #1: Long Toss Training Progression for Arm Strength Development, Vern Gambetta #2 Tubing Routine for Balance and Stability for Pitchers #3 Weekly Throwing and Conditioning In-season Program #4 In-Season Conditioning for Starting Pitchers with 4 Days Rest #5 In-season Simulated Game Conditioning Program for Pitchers #6 Improving Finger and Hand Actions for Pitching #7 Eric Milton, Pitcher, Minnesota Twins #8 Bill Wagner, Pitcher, Houston Astros
Insta-Kit Hitting Performance - SB116
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Multiple Authors•8 articles•Item # SB 116 Get 10 of our best and most popular training articles and presented so you can start your program now! This kit will focus on improved hitting performance through proper conditioning through the development of position, balance/stability, power and the transfer of these athletic skills to hitting skills. Detailed are how-to exercises to develop your own program. Also presented are concepts in imagery and how to improve vision skills. Includes an index of each article and how you can use it to establish your program. #1: Science of Hitting- Using the Needs Analysis to Improve Bat Speed #2: Improving Bat Speed- Part One #3: Improving Bat Speed- Part Two The Power Phase #4: Improving Bat Speed- Part Three, Transforming Power to Hitting Skills #5: Imagery Training for Pitch Recognition to Improve Batting Performance #6: Contact Zone Focus: A New Visual Approach to Successful Hitting #7: Favorite Exercise of the Stars- Sammy Sosa, Pregame core warm-up series #8: Favorite Exercise of the Stars-Sheila Douty, Medicine ball core power series
Heads-Up Baseball, Playing the Game One Pitch at a Time - SB107
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Ken Ravizza, Tom Hanson 1995• 175 pp (7\"x10\") • illustrated • $17.95• Item #SB 107 This book provides the coach or player an understanding of how the mental game works and details the concrete strategies for developing such elusive skills as concentration, mental preparation and staying in control under pressure. Most importantly, it gives ways to help the player take control of their confidence. Covered are hitting, pre-game mental preparation, pitching, fielding, base running and how to work on the mental game in practice.
Functional Shoulder Exercises for Conditioning and Rehabilitation Video - VB105
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Vern Gambetta 1995 • 35 minutes • $39.95 • Item # VB 105 Vern Gambetta former Chicago White Sox conditioning coach shows you a series of exercises with an innovative approach to conditioning and rehabilitating the shoulder emphasizing the role of the trunk and hips. By “getting hip to the shoulder” the baseball/softball player will learn exercises designed to enhance shoulder strength and stability. Shown are body weight, free weight, tubing and other “closed chain” exercises.
Fit to Pitch - SB101
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Tom House 1996 • 216 pp • $17.95 • Item # SB 101 For over 30 years the author has worked with such pitching greats as Randy Johnson and Nolan Ryan. This comprehensive conditioning program outlines essential training concepts to develop more stamina and pitching velocity. Detailed are pitcher-specific workouts for year-round conditioning and highlighted rehabilitation guidelines to help the player return to competition faster and more safely.
Defensive Softball Drills - SB 103
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1998 • 176 pp • Item # SB 103 Presented are 74 proven drills for building a framework of solid team defense. The author presents drills for learning and mastering skills at each position. All drills are accompanied by coaching points and detailed illustrations. Drills focus on: avoiding big innings, perfecting ball-catching skills, employing aggressive defensive style and working on the mental aspect of defense.
Complete Conditioning for Baseball - SB102
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Pat Murphy, Jeff Forney 1997 • 208 pp • 131 photos/tables • $15.95 • Item # SB 102 A comprehensive training book to show baseball coaches and players at all levels how to get into top shape. Included are 12-week sample programs for pitchers, position players, off-season and in-season. Illustrated are 46 exercises for power, speed development and 39 strength training exercises. Also discussed are warm-up, flexibility and nutritional considerations.
Baseball Stretches Poster Paper - SB105P
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Bob Anderson 22\'\'x34\'\'• 32 illus • $4.95 • Item # SB 105P From the famous stretching author Bob Anderson, this poster provides two complete illustrated stretching programs — one before the other after practice/games.
Baseball Stretches Poster Laminated - SB105L
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Bob Anderson 22\'\'x34\'\'• 32 illus • $12.95 • Item # SB 105L From the famous stretching author Bob Anderson, this poster provides two complete illustrated stretching programs — one before the other after practice/games.
52-Week Baseball Training - SB109
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Gene Coleman 251 pages • $19.95 • Item # SB 109 Authored by Gene Coleman, conditioning coach of the Houston Astros, this book provides a complete year-round conditioning plan to keep players in shape during the off-season and for peak performance during the season and playoffs. These day-by-day, week-by-week, season-by-season workouts include resistance training, total conditioning exercises, and position-specific activities. The plan can be used for high school, college, and summer-league competitive levels. Take the guesswork out of your training program and get results that will pay off on the field.
3-Step ACL Injury Prevention Program for Female Athletes Paper - AZ220P
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AZ220P • $7.95 These cards are designed to close the “training gap,” a leading risk factor in the high number of ACL injuries experienced by the female athlete. Here’s What You Get and How it Works -Complete Coaching Instructions -Card #1 3-Step Warm-up and Cool Down -Card #2 Balance Training Jumping/Change of Direction Mechanics -Card #3 Core and Leg Strength Development -Card #4 Program Card- a step-by-step 6 Week progressive program using the exercises presented in cards 1, 2 and 3. -Training Logs to record your progress Training card system features: -Independence-do anywhere, anytime at home on the field or gym -Progression- from beginning to advanced levels -Economy-start with bodyweight and progress to low cost equipment -E-Z to Use-Exercises explained in detail -Tuff/Water Resistant- available in lamination
3-Step ACL Injury Prevention Program for Female Athletes Laminated - AZ220L
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AZ220L • $14.95 These cards are designed to close the “training gap,” a leading risk factor in the high number of ACL injuries experienced by the female athlete. Here’s What You Get and How it Works -Complete Coaching Instructions -Card #1 3-Step Warm-up and Cool Down -Card #2 Balance Training Jumping/Change of Direction Mechanics -Card #3 Core and Leg Strength Development -Card #4 Program Card- a step-by-step 6 Week progressive program using the exercises presented in cards 1, 2 and 3. -Training Logs to record your progress Training card system features: -Independence-do anywhere, anytime at home on the field or gym -Progression- from beginning to advanced levels -Economy-start with bodyweight and progress to low cost equipment -E-Z to Use-Exercises explained in detail -Tuff/Water Resistant- available in lamination
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