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Complete Conditioning for Baseball

by Steve Tamborra
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Overview

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.

Synopsis

Strengthen your on-field performance with Complete Conditioning for Baseball. With customized workouts for position-specific skills, this book and DVD combination provides you with the exercises, drills, and programs designed to generate more hitting power, increase the velocity of throws, improve quickness, and enhance your overall abilities.

About the Author, 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.

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Book Details

Published
December 1, 2007
Publisher
Human Kinetics Publishers
Pages
272
Format
Other Format
ISBN
9780736062435

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