How to add power to your baseball swing?
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There are several ways to create power in your baseball swing. The first step should be to develop a good swing from a technical standpoint.Steps
1. Take a small step directly toward the pitcher when you start to swing. The trick is to keep you weight back on the back leg. Do not let your weight drift forward, if it does it will decrease rotary movement when you execute the swing. Try widening your stance, this allows you to shift your weight on your back leg and the explode with your hips (rotating the hips generates a huge amount of power).
2. Make sure your front foot is closed off when you step. The toes on the front foot should be pointing across the front of your body. If not you are going to spin instead of creating torque as your upper body rotates. Torque creates power.
3. When you hit the ball regardless of whether it is an inside or outside pitch your hands remain close to your body.The top hand of the bat should have the palm facing up when you make contact. If the top hand palm rolls over on contact you will hit a ground ball every time.
4. It is important to keep your hands around the height of your chest. If your hands or elbow is too high, you will cut down on the ball and it it into the ground. Your elbow should be around a 45 degree angle which allows you to power the bat quickly through the zone.
5. The follow through is important. Your hands, not the bat,should finish no higher than your shoulder. If your hands finish higher than your shoulder then you are deflecting the ball and not driving through it.
6. Watch "Sports Center" in the morning and look at all the monster home runs that were hit the day before. Regardless of how high or how far they were hit , every player finishes his swing with his hands even or lower than his shoulder.
Tips
* Weight training, plyometrics, sprints, are things that can be done in season and off season to enhance strength and power. Stay away from distance running if you want to be explosive.
* Practice off a batting tee. In this country players use the tee until they are 7 years old and then start using it again after they are 17. The beginners and professionals use the tee all the time. Scholastic players need to use the tee to develop maintain,and perfect technique.
* To improve overall bat speed, use a doughnut (weight) while taking warm up swings)
Warnings
* Spend ten minutes doing a dynmamic warmup before swinging 100%. Ask any coach or physical education teacher. You will avoid injury and enhance performance.
* Always wear a helmet for safety. You are going to wear one in a game anyway, so you may as well practice with it.
* For god's sake, don't do steroids or drugs. You'll be found out and the side effects are huge.
* If you are in high school or in late middle school, if you haven't done so already, start using a heavier bat. A -7 bat is fine when you are younger but if you plan on playing in high school, a -3 bat is the limit.
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Increasing your personal strength is the best way. Hit the weight room.i was always told to keep my head on, have a short to long swing, that is short TO the strike zone and your bat IN the strike zone longer, this will increase youre contact. stay back on the ball, dont lean over the plate. the one thing that helped me increase my power was popping my hips, that helped me a lot. and just practice
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