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Team & Player Prep
Lesson Series: Pre-game, pre-practice routine
   
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Wake-Up Warm-Up
 The Objective: To get yourself and/or your team truly ready to pick up a baseball and play the game hard with less risk of injury.
The Challenge: We have a standing rule for all practices and pre-games on teams coached: you never pick up a baseball to throw it unless and until your entire body is ready to handle the strain. We want to see glistening, a mild sweat come from the pores, before you start throwing. That's a tough rule to enforce when a new season begins. There will always be players who show up, grab a ball and start throwing as if that's all there is to baseball ...and without realizing that a cold arm is a soon-to-be-injured arm. So we insist when necessary. On the lessons whicn will follow, we outline the sequence and structure. While there is a focus on arm/core prep, it's not just for pitchers and catchers but all players. Note: Due to the level of work involved in developing this illustrated series, some information is reserved for paid Team Player program members and Team Site Managers only. Please join now.
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WebBall is indebted to many people for the ideas and methodology in this lesson series. Credit for the "wake-up" phrase goes to Ron Wolforth who uses it for his full-body routine, elements of which are included here, along with ideas from Alan Jaeger and many others. |
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