 Jeff
Forney, former Arizona
Diamondbacks strength and conditioning coach and Arizona State University head
baseball coach, Pat Murphy, share the game’s most effective training secrets.
Complete Conditioning for baseball is the training guide you need to improve
speed and power. Baseball coaches will tell you that what separates the best
players from the rest is athletic ability. That is why such a high premium is
placed on players who possesses the rare combination of speed and power. You
must develop these skills and this book leads you in the proper
direction.
Until now, only the pros and some
major college players had access to sport-specific training advice for
developing their bodies to excel on the field. Complete Conditioning for
Baseball is the first comprehensive training book to show baseball players and
coaches at all levels how to get in the best possible shape so they can hit the
ball harder, throw it faster, and run with greater agility and
speed.
For players, Complete
Conditioning for Baseball is a year-round conditioning manual that they'll take
to the weight room as well as to the practice field. For coaches, it's the ideal
team and player training guide that they've wished for years they
had.
The book's all-star lineup
features:
• 105 photographs
illustrating correct exercise technique and game action;
• 26 tables
containing training workouts and programs;
• 39 strengthening exercises for
building the muscles used most in baseball;
• 46 drills for developing
greater power, speed, and agility;
• nutritional guidelines; and
•
12-week, sample training programs for pitchers and position players, off-season
and in-season.
The authors are two of the
best authorities when it comes to maximizing the performance potential of
players through baseball-specific conditioning. Pat Murphy, who brought Notre
Dame's baseball program from the bottom to the top, now is at Arizona State
piloting one of the country's best college baseball programs. Jeff Forney is the
President Triple Threat Inc., and fitness expert, Murphy and Forney present
exercises and drills that transfer directly to the playing field for winning
performance.
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