Hey, what's going on? We're gonna talk about how to hit with more power today
and that's important because extra-base hits are gonna help us get more bases
obviously more bases lead to more runs more runs lead to more wins and if we
can help our team win more games obviously that's gonna be more
beneficial and of course who doesn't like hitting the ball harder and farther
and possibly hitting more home runs that's what this video is going to talk
about how you can do all that. But before we get into it I want to say thank you
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description and see what they got going on! So the first thing we have to do if
we want to hit with more power is we got to get stronger right we got to get it
into the gym and start doing some of those heavy lifts two squats the
deadlifts right we need to create a strong body for us to be able to
transfer energy through right I don't know what age you are watching this
obviously for the younger guys we're not gonna be getting in the gym and getting
under 315 pounds on the squat bar obviously some of you high school
players are shouldn't even be doing that but the idea is to get stronger over
time right because a strong body is gonna give us the base the fundamental
to build that power on top of so that we can work on a more powerful more
explosive swing tip number two if we want to hit with more power we need to
work on being more explosive right and that just has to do with working on
plyometrics and jumps and and and sprints things of this nature that are
gonna help us be more explosive as an athlete if we can train this way we've
got the strength right we just talked about strength squats deadlifts working
on our legs to get stronger if we can work on the explosive stuff now
plyometrics jumps Sprint's all this stuff we're gonna be more explosive and
we're gonna be able to move our body in a more explosive manner and we have to
do that if we want to hit the ball harder right if we want to hit the ball
with more power we need to be more explosive athletes so start thinking
about that type of training as well when you're working on being a more powerful
hitter tip number three is we need to train for rotational power because
hitting has a lot to do with rotation right we got to be able to rotate
explosive to hit this ball right so if we can do
things like medicine ball throws where we're exploding throwing a medicine ball
rotational work there's a machine at the gym where you can get inside and rotate
anything we're working around our thoracic spine and rotating and and
working this core section is great for baseball because that has a lot to do
with baseball when we're when we're trying to swing we have to have that
rotational energy we have to be able to transfer that energy through our core so
that we can get the energy out of our bat and to be able to do that we have to
Train the rotational energy aspect of the game number four is to practice with
more high intense wings meaning when we're up here swinging you know I see a
lot of guys just go okay I'm gonna get a bucket of balls today off the tee and
they're just up here and they're kind of lazy with their legs and they're just
throwing their hands at the ball like this
yeah that's great you got your bucket in but how was your intent how is the
intensity how was your intention on each swing right that's what I want you to
have that's what I want you to practice on when you're actually taking these
things I would rather you take a half a bucket at full intent then a full bucket
just kind of just going through the motions right so getting after it really
getting in here making sure you're set in a good stance getting athletic
getting up to the ball and then just crushing it as hard as you can as
opposed to just going through the motions you're gonna get so much more
out of your swing by doing that then just by going through the motions and
throw-in the hands so practice on more high intense wings than just throw-in
the hands number five is you got to use the right
bat right you got to use the right cut for you the right size the right length
the right weight because if you're swinging something too heavy
that could be messing up your swing right and you're not gonna be able to
generate as much power as you could be dragging the bat through the zone if
it's too heavy if it's too light you'll be swinging it real fast but cutting it
off short and even though you're swinging it fast and you hear a bat
speed is good for power if it's too light and you're swinging it fast when
the ball hits you're gonna have a recoil and you're not gonna be able to drive
the ball so you have to have the right weight bat right and you also want to
make sure you got the right cut right the wood bats they come in different
cuts different models right so maybe you're a guy who likes some more
top-heavy bat you want to get that whip and get that power that way maybe you're
a guy who likes a more even level bat a more balanced bat right to to get the
hands through quicker it feels better for you whatever it is know what wait
and cut bat in length you should have because that's gonna play a part in how
much power you can generate through that swing finding the right bat is very very
very important number six is to try overload under load training and that's
just where you swing a heavier bat and then a lighter bat right I suggest swing
in your normal bat in between so taking a few swings ten or so with a heavy bat
then a few swings ten or so with your regular bat then a few swings ten or so
with a lighter bat and really working on that intent of the swings and if you do
this over time studies show that you can increase your bat speed which in return
will increase your exit velocity if you have a good sized bat for yourself in
return will let you hit with more power and number seven last but not least you
have to have good movement and good timing within your swing because as
strong and as powerful as you become through the gym and training and
exercising in all this if you don't have good mechanics in your swing and you're
not moving correctly and you don't have good timing with your swing you can't
hit the ball right so you have to be able to transfer what you're doing in
the gym and put it within your body so that you can get it out of your body and
transfer it through your actual swing right because you can be the most strong
and explosive athlete out there but if you don't know how to swing a baseball
bat and don't have the correct mechanics you're not gonna be able to put the bat
to the ball and hit it far right and that's what we're talking about how to
create more power with hitting in baseball so you got to be able to hit
the ball right so timing is important and our mechanics our movement patterns
in the swing are very important so work on that because again you can get more
energy out of your swing depending on how well you're able to create energy
from the ground up and transfer it through your kinetic chain out your
hands through the bat and through the baseball that's why the ball flies right
we're creating energy from our back foot through the ground up through the middle
of our body out through our hands and the bat boom and it transfers into that
ball and that's what makes that ball shoot far and go farther so we got to be
able to create that energy and put it into the baseball if we want to hit
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