How do i get in shape for baseball?
What you want to do is full body exercises. There’s no slow heavy movements in baseball, so lifting heavy weights – besides getting a general level of fitness (which takes about 4-7 weeks to get) before working towards a more specific level of fitness – makes little sense. You’d just be wasting time. You want to work on being explosive! Tax the same system you’ll be using on the field. All workouts should revolve around variations of – and please note there are 20-80 variations of – the following… Squat (or quad dominant exercises) Deadlift (or hip dominant) Push Press (vertical press) Power Clean and Power Snatch (Olympic Lifts) Pullups (Vertical Pull) Pushups/DB bench (horizontal press) Rows (horizontal pull) Typically we will use a weight between 40-65% of a 1 rep max aimed an optimal bar speed and controlled, not slow and controlled. In order to gain fast-twitch a muscle must be exposed to that type of recruitment. You have to find the right balance between weight on the bar and
