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Teaching Hitting Drills Pro Style Teaching Hitting Drills Pro Style A powerful, hard hitting instructional video on fine tuning your skills with Hitting Drills. John Mallee is the professional hitting coordinator for the World Champion Florida Marlins entire minor league system. In this video John takes you through drills to help you improve your batting average. He has given over 17,000 private lessons and has trained with the best of the best in pro baseball. No matter if you are a Little League or Big League ball player, you owe it to yourself to learn to hit Pro Style!
Customer Review: Poor!!!
I would highly recommend the EXTRA INNINGS Training Series DVDs over these. Poor production quality, and very confusing. Extra innings training series is the way to go.
Customer Review: Simple and Highly Effective
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Mallee’s credentials as a professional coach are impressive, but a major league understanding of the game does not autmatically make one a good teacher or provide a quality video.

In this case it does!

First, John Mallee is an excellent teacher. He explains how the mechanics of a swing works. He makes it simple.

But you don’t have to understand how the baseball swing works to gain an advantage with his drills. John’s drills are designed to produce proper hitting mechanics without making the hitter think too much.

Second, he is great at building confidence and helping hitters discover a positive approach to hitting.

I highly recommend this video. Guaranteed to make you better.

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52 Week Baseball Training 52 Week Baseball Training

Provides complete in-season, and off-season workouts organized into a year-round plan that ensures that players are reaching their physical peak each football season. These day-by-day, week-by-week, season-by-season workouts include resistance training, total conditioning exercises, and position-specific activities. The training plan conforms well to both high school and college calendars and consists of six phases of workouts: postseason, winter, spring, early summer, preseason, and in season. The book describes how to perform each drill and exercise and includes more than 150 photos showing proper technique. Use 52-Week Baseball Training to perform better at the plate, in the field, and on the mound–every game, every season.
Customer Review: Take the guesswork out of baseball training
A Very complete guide that will help any athlete and an excellent resource for baseball players searching for how to train for their sport.
Customer Review: 52-Week Baseball Training: A Comprehensive Review
This text represents a comprehensive look at the application of current principles of conditioning and training for the baseball player. It is an extremely well written text. Dr. Coleman does an excellent job of blending both the theoretical aspects of training with the practical aspects he knows to be viable because of his years of experience working with, not only major league players, but also younger players. The application of the concept of periodization to baseball conditioning is extremely important for the development of strength, power, speed, and agility. With improvement in these areas, the ability to enhance performance is optimized. The use of humor throughout the text also serves as a good buffer between the various theoretical sections. The Forward to the book by Nolan Ryan and the Introduction to the Physical Demands of the Game set the stage for an extremely thorough look at the various aspects of conditioning that are involved in developing the baseball player. The examples of different players who developed at different rates indicate that players of all levels can benefit by applying the theories and programs presented in this text to their individual programs. Dr. Coleman s presentation of a year-round periodization model blends the theoretical aspects of this type of training with the reality of the baseball season. By defining the plans as he has, Dr. Coleman provides the individual with an idea of what is expected throughout each training regime.

Specifically important in the first section is the workout order. Many players train very inefficiently. By Dr. Coleman delineating the optimal order for performance enhancement, players gets an idea of how to best plan their entire training program.

In Chapter One on Postseason training, his presentation of the dietary needs of the athlete for training is very concise and straightforward. He presents a good plan for maintaining fitness during this period of time. By organizing his Off-season training program (Chapter Two) by positions, he deals with one of the primary aspects of physical development–specificity of training. He shows that although there are general exercises that all can do, there are certain exercises that are position specific. In this section he presents a simple yet thorough presentation of dietary needs, which is quite important to the individual.

By including baseball specific drills in Chapter Three, Preseason One training, he again focuses on the need for specificity of training. The section on avoiding arm problems is very important because oftentimes players are overzealous about trying to get ready for the season. This can cause setbacks rather than getting them ready for the upcoming season. His concluding comments on fueling the body with supplements are extremely well stated. He writes, Eating a diet high in carbohydrates and training hard are the best ergogenic aids available. They are safe, cheap, and effective. So many players today are looking for a quick and easy way to develop their physical abilities. In reality, the best way to do it as Dr. Coleman suggests is to eat right and work hard.

Also in this chapter, his baseball ratings test is a good guideline for players to use to see how much they have improved. Although his criteria may not be appropriate for the specific player, individual players can use this to measure gains over time. Monitoring themselves on these various parameters can provide two checks: 1) if their conditioning program is effective and 2) if they are over training and/or stale.

The Preseason Two chapter further emphasizes specificity of training when he discusses simulated innings training and fueling the body. His ten best food tips are a realistic look at the current state of society. Although it is ideal for people to prepare meals, in many cases this is not possible. His suggestions are well taken.

His In Season program (Chapter Five) focuses on the importance of maintaining what has been gained. At this time many players, because they are working on game specific drills, neglect things such as speed and agility. It is critical that Dr. Coleman s comments be heeded in this section.

Under the section on running, he states, The key to strength is intensity not volume . This relates to another important training concept overload. He focuses on how critical it is to be efficient in your training. Teaching players to train (and perform) better, not harder, is a critical element of successful coaching. An example with pitching is if you want to learn to pitch fast you should practice pitching fast.

The section on eating in popular restaurants discusses how important it is to eat a good diet. His examples of foods to order and foods to skip are quite good.

Part 2 of the text presents the meat of the material. Although I feel that this could have been placed at the beginning to give the reader an idea of what was to follow, I am sure Dr. Coleman s decision to place them in this order is based on his background and skill in the field. He presents 16 principles at the beginning of Part 2. These are so critical in developing a sound philosophy of how to train. It is important that these be read and reread before a training program is developed.

Chapter Six discusses the importance of warm-up and cool down in the development of flexibility and in the optimization of training. It contains a series of game specific activities that can help prepare the performer. The use of diagrams and the description of these exercises are quite thorough and build a good base for his training program.

Chapter Seven on core strength training is quite well done. He describes circuit weight training; multiple set training, pyramid training, and four-day split training, along with six day split training. Although a little more detail could have been included in some of these descriptions, enough is presented for the reader to at least ask a conditioning coach for suggestions for developing an individualized program. He presents a concise model for designing the components of your strength program discussing the specifics of sets and reps.

Again, following with the practical nature of the book, the section on the dos and don ts of crunches is quite well stated. The pictures and descriptions of the daily core are very thorough and very informative. His use of various mediums including medballs and plyometrics points out how complex the field of training is today.

Chapter Eight dealing with the development of the shoulder, elbow, forearm, and hand is quite necessary for the development of throwing for both fielders and pitchers. His cautions about the exercises that can hurt your shoulder are very important. His rotator cuff program is very specific to the baseball player.

Speed (Chapter Nine) is an area that is often overlooked. His five key components to the development of speed concisely present all that is necessary for the individual. His description of the components of running helps the individual player in a very simplistic way what needs to be done to run fast. This goes back to specificity of training in order to run fast you must run fast.

Finally, Chapter Ten on power and the plyometric element of training to baseball is important. The use of medballs and bounding are quite critical to the complete development of the baseball player.

In conclusion, I feel that this is an excellent text that deals with a number of elements that the player must consider in conditioning. Baseball is not something that is just played during the season. You do not get better by just fielding more grounders or taking more swings. The physical abilities necessary to play the game must be developed. Fitness and conditioning for baseball must be a year-round project.

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Teaching the Mechanics of the Major League Swing II (Based on Actual Baseball Swing Mechanics) Teaching the Mechanics of the Major League Swing II (Based on Actual Baseball Swing Mechanics) A complete video training program based no the actual swing mechanics of the accomplished professional hitter. This tape was produced during actual instructional classes at Baseball World Training Center in Orlando, Florida. A proven training program that gets results.

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The others will be reserved for later articles. Before I really got into writing this article I scoffed even at the concept of writing it. It almost seemed like a given. I mean, who needs to be told that setting their lineups is an important thing to do? The answer: most of us. I guess it’s similar to asking “who needs to be told why it’s a bad idea to run a red-ish yellow light or go faster than the speed limit?” People commit traffic violations all the time and ‘the man’ has classes devoted to traffic safety for all of those who need to be reminded (I’ve been reminded before…). The man gets paid our hard earned money to tell us something we already know. I’m giving you this one for free. It’s the same way in fantasy sports with setting lineups. How many owners manage to forget to set their lineups? In one of my leagues this year with 15 owners at least 60% of them forgot at least once about setting their lineups for a given day (to be fair it should be noted that I was one of them …

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52 Week Baseball Training 52 Week Baseball Training

Provides complete in-season, and off-season workouts organized into a year-round plan that ensures that players are reaching their physical peak each football season. These day-by-day, week-by-week, season-by-season workouts include resistance training, total conditioning exercises, and position-specific activities. The training plan conforms well to both high school and college calendars and consists of six phases of workouts: postseason, winter, spring, early summer, preseason, and in season. The book describes how to perform each drill and exercise and includes more than 150 photos showing proper technique. Use 52-Week Baseball Training to perform better at the plate, in the field, and on the mound–every game, every season.
Customer Review: Take the guesswork out of baseball training
A Very complete guide that will help any athlete and an excellent resource for baseball players searching for how to train for their sport.
Customer Review: 52-Week Baseball Training: A Comprehensive Review
This text represents a comprehensive look at the application of current principles of conditioning and training for the baseball player. It is an extremely well written text. Dr. Coleman does an excellent job of blending both the theoretical aspects of training with the practical aspects he knows to be viable because of his years of experience working with, not only major league players, but also younger players. The application of the concept of periodization to baseball conditioning is extremely important for the development of strength, power, speed, and agility. With improvement in these areas, the ability to enhance performance is optimized. The use of humor throughout the text also serves as a good buffer between the various theoretical sections. The Forward to the book by Nolan Ryan and the Introduction to the Physical Demands of the Game set the stage for an extremely thorough look at the various aspects of conditioning that are involved in developing the baseball player. The examples of different players who developed at different rates indicate that players of all levels can benefit by applying the theories and programs presented in this text to their individual programs. Dr. Coleman s presentation of a year-round periodization model blends the theoretical aspects of this type of training with the reality of the baseball season. By defining the plans as he has, Dr. Coleman provides the individual with an idea of what is expected throughout each training regime.

Specifically important in the first section is the workout order. Many players train very inefficiently. By Dr. Coleman delineating the optimal order for performance enhancement, players gets an idea of how to best plan their entire training program.

In Chapter One on Postseason training, his presentation of the dietary needs of the athlete for training is very concise and straightforward. He presents a good plan for maintaining fitness during this period of time. By organizing his Off-season training program (Chapter Two) by positions, he deals with one of the primary aspects of physical development–specificity of training. He shows that although there are general exercises that all can do, there are certain exercises that are position specific. In this section he presents a simple yet thorough presentation of dietary needs, which is quite important to the individual.

By including baseball specific drills in Chapter Three, Preseason One training, he again focuses on the need for specificity of training. The section on avoiding arm problems is very important because oftentimes players are overzealous about trying to get ready for the season. This can cause setbacks rather than getting them ready for the upcoming season. His concluding comments on fueling the body with supplements are extremely well stated. He writes, Eating a diet high in carbohydrates and training hard are the best ergogenic aids available. They are safe, cheap, and effective. So many players today are looking for a quick and easy way to develop their physical abilities. In reality, the best way to do it as Dr. Coleman suggests is to eat right and work hard.

Also in this chapter, his baseball ratings test is a good guideline for players to use to see how much they have improved. Although his criteria may not be appropriate for the specific player, individual players can use this to measure gains over time. Monitoring themselves on these various parameters can provide two checks: 1) if their conditioning program is effective and 2) if they are over training and/or stale.

The Preseason Two chapter further emphasizes specificity of training when he discusses simulated innings training and fueling the body. His ten best food tips are a realistic look at the current state of society. Although it is ideal for people to prepare meals, in many cases this is not possible. His suggestions are well taken.

His In Season program (Chapter Five) focuses on the importance of maintaining what has been gained. At this time many players, because they are working on game specific drills, neglect things such as speed and agility. It is critical that Dr. Coleman s comments be heeded in this section.

Under the section on running, he states, The key to strength is intensity not volume . This relates to another important training concept overload. He focuses on how critical it is to be efficient in your training. Teaching players to train (and perform) better, not harder, is a critical element of successful coaching. An example with pitching is if you want to learn to pitch fast you should practice pitching fast.

The section on eating in popular restaurants discusses how important it is to eat a good diet. His examples of foods to order and foods to skip are quite good.

Part 2 of the text presents the meat of the material. Although I feel that this could have been placed at the beginning to give the reader an idea of what was to follow, I am sure Dr. Coleman s decision to place them in this order is based on his background and skill in the field. He presents 16 principles at the beginning of Part 2. These are so critical in developing a sound philosophy of how to train. It is important that these be read and reread before a training program is developed.

Chapter Six discusses the importance of warm-up and cool down in the development of flexibility and in the optimization of training. It contains a series of game specific activities that can help prepare the performer. The use of diagrams and the description of these exercises are quite thorough and build a good base for his training program.

Chapter Seven on core strength training is quite well done. He describes circuit weight training; multiple set training, pyramid training, and four-day split training, along with six day split training. Although a little more detail could have been included in some of these descriptions, enough is presented for the reader to at least ask a conditioning coach for suggestions for developing an individualized program. He presents a concise model for designing the components of your strength program discussing the specifics of sets and reps.

Again, following with the practical nature of the book, the section on the dos and don ts of crunches is quite well stated. The pictures and descriptions of the daily core are very thorough and very informative. His use of various mediums including medballs and plyometrics points out how complex the field of training is today.

Chapter Eight dealing with the development of the shoulder, elbow, forearm, and hand is quite necessary for the development of throwing for both fielders and pitchers. His cautions about the exercises that can hurt your shoulder are very important. His rotator cuff program is very specific to the baseball player.

Speed (Chapter Nine) is an area that is often overlooked. His five key components to the development of speed concisely present all that is necessary for the individual. His description of the components of running helps the individual player in a very simplistic way what needs to be done to run fast. This goes back to specificity of training in order to run fast you must run fast.

Finally, Chapter Ten on power and the plyometric element of training to baseball is important. The use of medballs and bounding are quite critical to the complete development of the baseball player.

In conclusion, I feel that this is an excellent text that deals with a number of elements that the player must consider in conditioning. Baseball is not something that is just played during the season. You do not get better by just fielding more grounders or taking more swings. The physical abilities necessary to play the game must be developed. Fitness and conditioning for baseball must be a year-round project.

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The Pitching Edge Video The Pitching Edge Video

Now theres a companion videotape to the baseball instructional book The Pitching Edge! This video shows how pitching technique is taught, performed, and corrected for maximum efficiency and effectiveness on the mound. Featuring former major league pitcher and top pitching coach Tom House, The Pitching Edge Video combines practical on-field instruction and drills with expert off-field analysis and explanation. Whether youre in the big leagues or youth leagues, youll benefit from the many flat-ground and mound practice drills presented. And youll gain insight into common problems and how to overcome them through Coach Houses slow-motion video analysis of each phase of the pitching motion.

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Black Max Curveball and Bat Black Max Curveball and Bat Prepare your little slugger for a major league career with this ultra-safe pitching and hitting set.

  • Kids can safely throw curveballs without hurting their arm
  • Soft ball throws a wide variety of pitches– just change your grip to vary ball movement
  • Super-durable ball construction
  • Unique soft and safe bat for fun at the plate

Designed just for kids, this unique set helps young players achieve success both at the pitching mound and at bat.
Customer Review: This is not a regular baseball bat
Looks good, but not what I wanted. The bat is also semi-soft, made of some type of plastic or hard foam. Nice, but it won’t work me.

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ABC News Classics Hank Aaron ABC News Classics Hank Aaron He started his professional career with the “Indianapolis Clowns” of the Negro American League, and for many of his 23 years in the major leagues he played in relative obscurity. Today he is recognized as one of the greatest baseball players in the history of the game.

Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron (born February 5, 1934 in Mobile, Alabama) holds the Major League record in each of the following categories: career home runs (755); career runs batted in (2,297); career extra base hits (1,477); and career total bases (6,856). Additionally, he is the only player to have 17 seasons with 150 or more hits. He won one World Series ring with the Milwaukee Braves in 1957, and the National League Most Valuable Player Award the same year. He also earned three Gold Glove Awards and made 24 All-Star appearances.

Anchor: Greg Jackson

Airdate: July 18, 1983

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Speed Sensor Radar Baseball LCD Display Training Ball Speed Sensor Radar Baseball LCD Display Training Ball This regulation size 3″ diameter virtual speed baseball tells you the speed of your throw within 1 mile an hour. Whether it’s from Little League or Major League distance, this ball will measure your speed from glove to glove. Made of leather, the ball has the same feel as a regular baseball. The internal battery is good for up to 100,000 throws. Just grip the ball, press the reset button, and fire your best throw to the catcher. It will read accurately up to 120 miles an hour!The ball is BRAND NEW, never used, and comes with instructions and a string marker with markings for both 46 feet and 60 feet, 6 inches. It makes a great gift for the baseball fan in your family. We have a limited supply of these, so get yours now!
Customer Review: Use for Batting Practice
This product is not very good. The speed registers at least 6 miles per hour faster than radar gun. Getting the grip on the ball correct to make it even register a speed is difficult and frustrating. Avoid this ball.

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