Hey what's going on guys? Today were going to talk about baseball bat speed drills. There
is a few baseball bat speed drills that I like to work on bat speed. In fact in this
video I'm going to share with you three baseball bat speed drills that you can do to work on
your bat speed. The first one is called over under swings. What you do in over under swings
is your swinging a heavier bat, your regular batch and ta lighter bat .They've done scientific
studies on this that it improves your bat speed, it improves your bat speed more than
just swinging a heavy bat, more than just swinging a light bat and more than just increasing
your repetitions with your regular bat. So over under training is very important for
increasing your bat speed. What you do in this drill is you're going
to want a bat that is 20% heavier than your normal bat, now this is a 16 ounce donut here
so this is a lot heavier than my regular bat but what you can do is if you can find; let's
say this is a 30 ounce bat 20% would be 6 ounces if I'm doing my math right 6 ounces
heavier. So if you can find a 6 ounce donut that would be great. I don't see very many
six ounce donuts so what you can do is get a 4 ounce donut and tape pennies around it
to add some more weight to it or you can just duct tape pennies around a bat to that create
that amount of weight. You can take it to the post office I don't know if that's legal
but they have scales there that you could weigh it on or if you have a scale at home
you can do that as well but 20% heavier and 20% lighter. So if you're swinging a 3330
that would be 6 ounces heavier and 6 ounces lighter for purposes of this baseball bat
speed drills video I'm just going with what I've got okay. So heavier, regular and then
for the light I'm just going PVC stick. You could also use a PVC stick for your lighter
bat or an old bat and just add weight inside and cap it somehow.
So all you're going to do is; what I'd like to do is a 90 swing set. First you're going
to start down on your knee with your leg out and you're going to imagine hitting low and
outside pitches with the heavy bat and you're going to take 10 swings, fast. Try and have
good mechanics but fast. The whole point of this is working on bat speed, 10 swings there.
Then your regular bat low and outside. Fast, fast, fast and then you're lighter bat really
fast, really fast 10 swings there. Then you're going to stand up do your heavy bat again,
regular swings low and outside tee. You don't have to have a tee there but imagine it,10
with the heavy, 10 with the regular and 10 with the light.
Then the last 30 swings are going to be Happy Gilmore. Happy Gilmore is when we just walk
behind, step, stride, swing again low and outside tee or imagine low and outside tee
and swinging as hard as you can. 10, 10 and 10 so that's 90 swings total. Now at the end
of the day you don't only want to do over under training because that could mess up
your swing. You will always want to take more swings with your normal weight bats okay.
For example if you're doing that 90 swings maybe 20 or 25 after you do with your regular
bat of actually hitting baseballs and then the next day you maybe take off your over
under training and just use your regular bat for hitting practice; make sense? Very good!
That's number one for your baseball bat speed drills.
Number two is a medicine ball. Now you may wonder how a medicine ball is going to help
my bat speed. Well medicine ball is great workout for your rotational energy. There's
a few exercises I really like with the med ball for your rotational energy. One is going
to be holding it back by your side and then striding and throwing it underhand like that
as hard as you can against the wall. Let me show you one striding and during its underhanded
like that as hard as you can against the wall let me show you one here. I'm going to hold
it, rock it back, throw it and repeat. Obviously we want to do both sides whether I am a righty
or lefty we're doing both ways. So that's one exercise the other is going to be up top
by your shoulders. So that's here underneath to the side, this one is up by the shoulder
I got my hand here and I'm delivering it with my bat shoulder; striding, throw, striding
throw. You want to feel the separation in your abs okay.
The next great medicine ball drill for bat speed is going to be squat throws. You're
going to squat down nice and deep and then jump and explode up. You really want to be
explosive when you're doing this and you're actually going to jump as high as you can
as you're doing this drill working on being an explosive athlete. Now there's very many
drills you can do with the med balls. I'll show you one more but there's tons more you
can do. In fact I've got another video that you can watch that shows you a lot more exercises
you can do with this but I'm just going to show you one more and that's going to be slams.
You're just going to stride out with your front foot and slam it down. Now make sure
not to throw it too straight down when your head comes down because I've seen guys throw
it, smash that nose. So be careful with that one. So that's the medicine ball drills right
there. The last one for bat speed drills is going
to be the swing as hard as you can drill. Now this drill is very simple all you're going
to do is swing as hard as you can. You're not going to worry about your mechanics, you're
not going to worry about anything else you're going to set a ball up on the tee and just
go balls out right here. That's the swing as hard as you can drill.
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