In honor of the 2009 baseball season’s opening day (rained out in Geezerland), Geezer presents, with minor league suspicion, the exercise routines billed by Ask the Trainer.com as the best five weight training routines for baseball players.
And the winners are:
5. Cable wood chops:
excellent for strengthening the obliques and core stabilizers
which can help a baseball player throw faster or
hit harder.
4. Lateral squats: can help fielders built the explosive power needed to move laterally.
3. Medicine ball throwing: more explosive power potential here, to be used when throwing or hitting.
2. Rotator cuff exercises: can help prevent career-ending injury to the rotator cuff.
1. Stability ball supine Russian twists: can strengthen obliques and
legs for “squashing the bug” when swinging a baseball bat.
Read more about exercises for baseball players at Ask the Trainer.com.
nice
These exercises make more sense and appear to be more applicable specifically to baseball than the other articles I’ve read on my google search. Most of the other articles list deadlifts and regular squats. The sagital and transverse plane exercises that you have listed are the same planes an movements that are utilized mostly in baseball! Thanks Sports Geezer!