What are doing this offseason

Besides baseball-specific stuff I'm also doing a lot of core workouts that help many parts of the game.

Football off-season ! I'm a Quarterback.
After Christmas will change to Baseball off-season. My favorite sport ! I'm a catcher !
We lift and the pitchers and catchers work ! A little bit of hitting ! Few position players still in Basketball !

I am hitting/ throwing as much as possible


weights/ conditioning every other day

Tryouts/seeason starts Jan. 9

Alot of throwing, and wieghts once or twice a week. I also work on deeper and wider squats.

Basically just weight lifting until mid january. Also doing a lot of cardio work for endurance like running a mile every other day, things of that nature.

I concentrate on the main four, in my opinion, throw, hit, run, and lift. Hit just about 5 days a week for like 20-30 minutes (most of the time just flips or off the tee just to work on mechanics) Throw about 3 days, I spend most my time doing long toss, running everyday just ten 60 yard all out sprints help, and lift three times a week, doin just about everything but not anything that will tighten up your chest or shoulders like military press, bench press, or butterflies.

What have you guys been doing to strengthen your arms? Any velocity improvements?

Each day you Have to do forearms.They rarely get sore and that increases arm strength and bat speed

short27stop,

if you are a shortstop how come defense isnt one of the "main 4." At the higher levels, you cant be a shortstop without having great defense, because fielding is a higher priority for a shortstop than anything else.

maddog:
i ve done resistance bands/tubing for quite some time there are different exercises you can do that help mostly the rotator cuff but you can also you fore arms n some legs..

ps:
they work well for stamina, durability, etc

are you a pitcher pearl_2001....b/c i just talked to my coach the other day and he said he got this one thing which sounds like what your talking about that will increase your speed by 5-10 mph gauranted.....i pitch and catch by the way