Weighted Softball

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Weighted Softball

History has produced many baseball home run hitters Barry Bonds, who has a home run record of seven hundred and six two homers and Hank Aaron with seven hundred fifty-five circuits. And who could forget Babe Ruth's home run record with a seven hundred fourteen? And despite the differences between baseball and softball and in terms of the duration of the game, the team and field, softball batters many aspire to become the Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth of softball.

If you want to sharpen their softball hitting skills and improve their game together, here are some tips that you and your team can certainly apply to your next session softball practice.

  1. Make series of exercises that help increase your batting power. For example, you can do squats, presses legs and falls with weight that strengthens the biceps, triceps, chest muscles and other important to hit the softball. They make them in a steady pace in order to extend the racket remarkable speed.
  2. Keep Losing grip stick so that when you hit the ball, it would take more than speed. In the meantime, if you keep a firm grip on the bat, which would tend to not let it go once and you must run around the bases.
  3. If you are going to do some strengthening exercises in the gym, do so for a maximum period of forty minutes, three times a week. Focus on exercises that strengthen the major muscle groups.
  4. Use your hand to boost the bat while his hand before a pull stroke. This will help you increase your punching power, while improving your monitor.
  5. Remember that you hand over your left go wrong, as this will give more power. You may find it difficult in practice at first, but if you are able to get the hang of it, you may notice an increase in power at the plate.
  6. Make contact with the bottom of the ball as it would cause the ball to spin and move on.
  7. Remember that the transfer of your weight on the back foot by foot before hitting the ball so that it would be able to generate more power hitting.
  8. When set contact with the ball, there is a bit ahead of where you are and this would help speed up his stick.
  9. When the practice of striking the soft ball, find a place where you feel you can generate a high speed when the ball after the pitcher releases it. Working hard to build this themselves very comfortable doing this.
  10. Hitting the ball, you must make sure your chin is on your shoulders forward when you start to swing and when finished, the chin should be placed in the back of the shoulder. In this way, no, your head is too high on the ball and help avoid the waste of energy too soon.

What are you waiting for? Follow these softball tips to win and be the second best hitter in softball is.

Marc Dagenais is a Softball Peak Performance Coach that helps softball players turn their athletic talent into extraordinary performances and help coaches get more out of their players, turn their struggling team around or get an edge over their opponents. Visit us to sign-up to get our FREE softball pitching tips!

Episode 3 – Weighted Softballs – Fastpitch Softball TV Show


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