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Softball Conditioning - Functional Training Increases Throwing Velocity
Its officially confirmed - proper softball conditioning using the right exercises - functional exercises (aka sports-specific exercises) - increases arm strength and throwing velocity. Ive known a long time that strength training helped to increase arm strength and throwing velocity. However, I de …
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Softball Pitching - A Drill to Increase Pitching Speed
Most people think of a dominant pitcher as someone who throws hard. Its much more than that. To be dominant, a pitcher must have a winning mindset, speed, control, and deception. If one of these elements is missing, a pitcher isnt dominant. However, speed does helps quite a bit to be dominant. At t …
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Softball Fundamentals - Your Fix For Preventing Errors
Softball is all about fundamentals. Have you ever taken the time to analyze our game? Its a game of errors. The team that wins is often the team that makes the least amount errors or doesnt beat itself with errors. Serving the wrong pitch, throwing the ball 2 inches too high, mishandling the ball wh …
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Had a great practice with my p…
Had a great practice with my pitchers today.
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Softball Training Tips - Is Your Training Schedule Consistent?
This video provides you with some quick softball training tips on being more consistent. You see, when it comes to softball training whether you are refining your skills (hitting, pitching, fielding, etc.) or youre working out to get faster, stronger, and more powerful - consistency matters and it …
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Softball Hitting Drills - How to Pick and Use Them Wisely
Softball Hitting is one of the most difficult skill to master in sports. Softball Players, Coaches and instructions use a variety of softball hitting drills to help master this challenging skills. There are a lot of softball hitting drills you can choose from. In this video, I share with you severa …
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Does Your Team Have a Cell Phone Use Policy?
A while back I wrote about an article I read in in a coaching magazine that was sort of a debriefing about the summer Olympics. I found one of the elements discussed by the author very interesting and definitely something I can relate to - how the presence of cell phones might negatively affect …
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Coaching and Training a 16U Softball Team
Im probably working too hard, I have a cold that just doesnt want to go away. You can picture me walking around with my box of white tissues. Its actually pretty funny! People have been laughing and sympathizing with me. Outside of being a little sick, Its been very busy over here. Weve been filmi …
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Softball Training - Are You Feeling It?
Softball Performance Secrets Podcast #16 - In this podcast, Marc Dagenais explains the importance on focusing on what you feel when you work on refining your softball skills rather than thinking about what you need to do (i.e. bend the knees, bring arm at 90 degrees, etc.). He discusses the idea o …
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Softball Coaching Tips - Doing Team Building Activities
I was just reading an article about a college team doing team building using rope courses right before the season. I think its a great idea, especially for girls. You see, while team chemistry is a key performance factor in our sport, its an even more important for female athletes. Thats because gir …
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Coaching Youth Softball vs. Elite Softball - A Perspective
As some of you know, Ive worked at all levels of the game from the recreational 10U team all the way to the highest levels (college, international). To my knowledge, few people haves spent time at both extreme of the continuum and anywhere in between like I have. I can as easily relate to a 12U coac …
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What Do You Want to Be Remembered For?
Yesterday, I blogged about the nomination of Crystl Bustos as the 2008 USA Softball Player of the Year. Its definitely a well-deserved honor for who is considered by many to be one of the best hitters to ever play the game especially after her 2008 stellar season. Heres a quote in the news release …
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Crystl Bustos Named 2008 USA Softball Player of The YEar
One of the most prolific hitter and softball player of the last decade if not in the history of softball, three-time Olympian Crystl Bustos was just named today 2008 USA Softball Player of the Year. After a stellar 2008 season right after the Olympic final, she has officially announced her retirem …
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Softball Coaching Tips - Stages of Group Development and How to Deal with Them
Softball Performance Secrets Podcast #15 - In this podcast, Marc Dagenais explains the various stages of development a team goes through during the course of a season and how coaches should approach each of them to minimize problems and develop a successful team chemistry.
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Softball Pitching - How to Increase Speed By Staying Loose
This blog post on softball pitching and how to increase pitching speed was inspired from reading the post on the same topic from my friend and colleague Ken Krause on his blog: Theres Strong, Then Theres You see, its a natural reaction for an athlete who want to generate more force or power to flex …
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Jail Time for a Softball Parent Gone Wild
I just ran across a story of a softball parent gone wild threatening an umpire and spitting at a police officer. This is sad - we dont need in the game. Yet, I presume it is far too common. Here is the story: A Hanover Park man who threatened a youth softball umpire and spit on a deputy sheriff was …
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Softball Training - Don't Abuse the Bench Press
I was at the gym today doing interval training on the treadmill (very effective method) and I saw two guys doing the famous Bench Press. The bench press is considered by many as one of the two king exercises in weight training with the squat. While the bench press is an excellent upper body strengt …
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Softball History - Who Invented Softball and How It Started
Softball Performance Secrets Podcast #14 - In this podcast, Marc Dagenais discusses the history of softball. Fortunately for all the passionate of the game, softball history is very well documented and we have a clear understanding of its evolution over time. Marc goes on to explain who invented so …
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Softball Coaching Tips - How to Adjust Your Coaching to Female Athletes
Would you like some softball coaching tips on how to coach female athletes? In this video, I share some insights and lessons I have learned over the years coaching softball and more specifically, female athletes. One of the important things I explain is how important the social aspect is for them an …
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New Year Special - Get Your Own Customized Softball-Specific Workout Program!
Get in Shape to Dominate! The holidays are over. Its now time to get back to work to increase your strength, power, and speed for next season. To give you an incentive to get started NOW and to get you started with your own customized, softball-specific workout program - I am running a HUGE NEW Y …
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