Introduction In recent years, travel baseball has gained immense popularity among young athletes and their families. Promising exposure...

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What Type of Complainer Are You? Today in Youth Sports all over the world, parents of players seem to be equipped with all the answers...

Physical and biomechanical constraints/attributes are intimately interwoven. Often one spawns the other (e.g., Are you tight because you...

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EXETER — Kristopher Moules had two passions in life — upholding the law and playing baseball. One place where he could often be found was...

f your idea of “core” training is doing crunches, sit-ups and Russian twists, STOP NOW! You are only reinforcing bad posture and asking for an injury. Imagine yourself in a full sit-up position. When are you ever in that position on the baseball field? NEVER! We need to train our core to stabilize, not flex. We are in a flexed position all day long. We are sitting at a desk, in the car or watching TV. We need to get out of flexion and get our spine in a neutral position with

Medicine ball exercises can be important tool in the development of masculature that is important for sports performance. Medicine ball exercises can achieve angular specificity and stimulate tissues that may not be activated in exercise movements used in a typical strength and conditioning program. Medicine ball training allows complex sport-specific movements to be performed expolosively with greater resistance than that seen during regular sports competition. Sports-specif

The goal of this article is to provide interested readers with examples of 6-week preseason training programs for youth baseball players aged 7-14 years that are evidence based, relate to the movements of the game, and do not take a significant amount of equipment or time to complete. Components included in this youth article are an example weekly training schedule, plyometric, resistance training, and rotator cuff exercises, as well as age-specific long toss throwing program