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Creatine: Important for Baseball Players?
The Effects of Creatine Supplementation on Muscle Growth and Why It’s Important for Baseball Players Jarad Vollkommer, CSCS Has anyone ever told you to be careful with your Creatine supplementation because it “damages your kidneys”? Or, that it really has no effect on muscle growth and is clinically unsafe? These are some of the common misconceptions in the field of exercise science. Fortunately for you, this article is giving you the real science behind Creatine. Creatine has been the most widely studied supplement. It’s importance to muscle growth is well known, and has been backed by numerous scientific studies. In this article, we will review how Creatine is used by your cells, why it is important for baseball, and how it feeds your muscles to grow! So…What is ...
Off-Season Training
Jarad Vollkommer, CSCS The off-season grind is slowly coming upon us. The summer heat is cooling down, kids are going back to school, and fall practices will start in a couple of weeks. Now that we transition into the off-season, it’s important to consider some variables. You’re probably enjoying the time off from all baseball activity. Give your body and your brain the rest that it needs Your arm may be hurting, and it may not be either. BUT, regardless of your situation, I think it would be best to not throw for a while. Obviously, you don’t really have a choice if you are a college player. In the perfect world (most High School kids), you could be taking off at least 2 months from throwing altogether. NOW is the time to work on your specific needs. In a general sense, players should be ...
Paul Gibson’s Fall Machine League To Begin September 14
With so many young pitchers having their seasons cut short due to injuries or innings limits, travel teams that compete in fall ball have found it increasingly difficult to fill the necessary innings on the mound. To combat this issue, Paul Gibson III and Scott June have put together a “Fall Machine League” which will begin on September 14 and run through October 20. June, Co-Director of the league and a co-owner of All Pro Sports Academy in Bellport, sees this as a great opportunity for middle school and high school hitters to gain roughly 60 at bats prior to the 2017 season coming to a close. He decided to put this together at the recommendation of Paul Gibson, Special Assistant for Pitching Development with the Kansas City Royals, when he noticed how big this concept was bec...
What Is Rotational Power?
Accessing Rotational Power When studying movement, we can classify three different movement planes: sagittal (front and back), frontal (side to side), and transverse (rotational). Our training should be emphasized on all three planes of movement to optimize overall athletic performance. However, there’s no surprise that baseball is a very rotational (transverse) sport, with side-to-side (frontal) movement being a close second since the frontal plane precedes rotational movement. Whether it’s throwing or hitting, an athlete must be able to rotate well to be successful in the game of baseball. We can assume that being strong is the “end-all-be all”, but an athlete needs to be able to express this maximal force in the shortest time possible (increase rate of force development). For something ...
