Talking To a Coach Isn’t Always Easy It can be very difficult to openly and honestly talk to a coach. For one thing, a lot of coaches don’t ever make themselves available for that kind of conversation. Some coaches believe that being open and speaking with a player in an honest way […]
Creating intense baseball practices is something a lot of coaches struggle with. They want to prepare their players for game action, but so much of baseball just doesn’t lend itself very well to high intensity. In our first two articles on the subject we discussed timing your everyday drills to add […]
Follow these steps to organize and run a great baseball camp for any age! Running a baseball camp can be a great idea for many baseball programs. They can raise money for the program, get a lot of players together at one time for coaching, help the program meet potential recruits, and […]
A Bone Worth Picking, Why Baseball is Not A Game of Failure By: Casey Fisk Casey Fisk is the owner of Fisk Performance Training in Grand Rapids Michigan. His website and training facility should be visited by anybody who is serious about gaining baseball knowledge and elite physical preparedness. He is a […]
Early Specialization Vs. Playing Multiple Sports Baseball Brains contributes writing to many websites and blogs across the internet, and we like to bring it to the attention of our readers when we do. Recently we wrote an article for Cleat Geeks on whether young athletes should specialize in one sport or play […]
Pitchers Need Practice Too How to create a practice plan for pitchers without changing much at all about what you’re already doing. In many youth baseball and high school baseball practices, it is very difficult to carve out time for the pitchers to get their work in. After the everyday practice […]
Working out for baseball requires a good plan. This is a new series on Baseball Brains where we will lay out the keys to developing a good plan for baseball workouts. Like many of the most important parts of rising to a high level in baseball, it all starts with a […]
We’re always looking for great pitching drills. Wherever we are, whatever we’re doing, our eyes and ears are open for new ideas about how to make pitchers better. One great set of drills that we use for pitchers is called quarterbacks. It’s no secret where it got its’ name and it’s […]
Strengthen Your Core For Baseball The core of the body can be defined many ways, but the important thing to remember for baseball players is that it is what every athletic move you make revolves around. The ability to stay stacked between your legs when you’re heading to a ground ball, generate […]
Don’t Just Practice What You’re Already Good At, Eliminate Weakness All coaches want their players to continually get better as the season progresses. I think that’s basically accepted as a universal coaching truth. Unfortunately, a lot of coaches do not run their team in a way that actually makes that possible. […]