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Complete Conditioning for Baseball - Steve Tamborra
Complete Conditioning for Baseball
by Steve Tamborra
NEW, 272 pages plus DVD
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About Complete Conditioning for Baseball
Today’s players are bigger, stronger, and faster than ever before. A focused conditioning program has become essential to on-the-field success. Complete Conditioning for Baseball features a comprehensive training approach that builds players’ physical abilities as well as the baseball-specific skills their positions require.
Steve Tamborra, strength and conditioning coach for 60 AP Collegiate All-Americans, 16 first-round draft picks, and more than 100 athletes drafted by professional sports teams, provides exercises, drills, and programs designed to improve the essential elements of the sport—strength, power, speed, agility, and quickness. His programs will help you in these areas:
- Generate more power at the plate.
- Strengthen and protect your pitching arm.
- Increase the velocity of throws.
- Expand your range in the field.
- Improve quickness on the base paths.
In addition, the 45-minute DVD takes you onto the diamond and into the gym to demonstrate the same exercises and drills by the game’s best.
With physical assessment tests, nutritional guidelines, and seasonal workouts, Complete Conditioning for Baseball is your guide to maximizing your talents and becoming a perennial all-star.
About Steve Tamborra
Steve Tamborra is a respected strength and conditioning coach who has trained 60 AP Collegiate All-Americans, 16 first-round draft picks, and more than 100 athletes drafted by professional sports teams, including 10 players drafted and the fifth overall pick in 2007.
Since 1999, Tamborra has been the head strength coach for Georgia Tech's baseball program, where he focuses on player development. Before working with Georgia Tech, he was the assistant strength coach for Florida State University's athletic program. Tamborra is certified by CSCC, NSCA, ACSM, and USA Weightlifting.
Tamborra earned a bachelor's degree in nutrition and fitness and a master's degree in sports administration from Florida State University. Tamborra and his family live in Mableton, Georgia.
Reviews of this Book
"Finally a true baseball training program for dedicated players, managers, and strength and conditioning coaches. From year-round conditioning plans to position-specific programs, Coach Tamborra's Complete Conditioning for Baseball is a must-have for any player seeking success at the plate, in the field, or on the base path."
Mark Teixeira
MLB All-Star
"Steve's passion for excellence, coupled with his desire to see athletes succeed, has been an important factor in our program's success. That passion and expertise combine in Complete Conditioning for Baseball's book and DVD set, making it the premier training package for the sport."
Danny Hall
Head Baseball Coach, Georgia Tech
About Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.
Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-eighteenth century. This game and the related rounders were brought by British and Irish immigrants to North America, where the modern version of baseball developed. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball on the professional, amateur, and youth levels is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia. The game is sometimes referred to as hardball, in contrast to the derivative game of softball.
In North America, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL). Each league has three divisions: East, West, and Central. Every year, the major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series. Four teams make the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus one wild card team. Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League; Cuba's West League and East League. In the National and Central leagues, the pitcher is required to bat, per the traditional rules. In the American, Pacific, and both Cuban leagues, there is a tenth player, a designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher. Each top-level team has a farm system of one or more minor league teams. These teams allow younger players to develop as they gain on-field experience against opponents with similar levels of skill.
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