Georgia Personal Training for Baseball Players

Baseball Performance Training

Agility, Speed, Power, Arm Strength

Simply put, baseball performance training is athletic training specifically designed to produce better baseball players.  To achieve this objective, the training focuses on the specific athletic skills, and specialized movement patterns most utilized on the baseball field.  The objective of baseball performance training is to increase bat speed and exit velocity, increase throwing velocity on the mound and in the field, increase speed on the bases and lower 60 times, increase agility and range on defense, enhance durability, and decrease an athlete’s risk of injury.

Baseball is a difficult sport to prepare for in that it requires a wide array of athletic skills in combination with a very high level of technical proficiency.  A baseball player must strive to be as physically strong and powerful as possible, but in doing so, he must also maintain flexibility, range and fluidity of motion.  In other words, strength must be increased, but if doing so decreases technical proficiency or restricts movement, the end result will be minimal, or even diminished, on field results.  Optimal strength training results for baseball will only be achieved by athletes that understand how bat speed and velocity are created.  They aren’t created in the pecs and biceps.  Baseball power comes primarily from the legs, core, and posterior chain.  In addition, baseball power is dependent on force production, which means speed of movement is equally important to the loads one can move.

Base Running, Fielding, Hitting, Pitching

In today’s competitive baseball arena, players who are not working to improve their athletic abilities with the same dedication they apply to their baseball skills, are simply not going to be able to compete at the highest levels of baseball.  Today’s game is built around speed and power.  It’s on display every single night on MLB network and ESPN.  World class athletes doing things that make people’s mouths drop.  It’s the era of stat cast, exit velo, and launch angle.  Every year players are getting bigger, stronger, and faster than the previous generation.  Every young player must understand that how far they go in baseball will NOT be determined by their batting average, but by their speed, power, and arm strength.  We encourage every player and parent we meet to embrace this reality, and whether they choose to train with us or not, we sincerely hope they will make baseball performance training a part of their plan going forward.

The GPT training facility was precisely designed to accommodate baseball specific agility, speed, and strength workouts.  With more than $100,000 of commercial fitness equipment, much of which has direct baseball applications, we are more than capable of training anyone and everyone, from local youth players, to the nation’s top professionals.  We utilize many different training modalities to achieve optimal results for our athletes.  Too often trainers fall in love with one system.  At GPT, we embrace the ever changing science of sports performance, and the guiding principles of progressive overload and muscle confusion.  Variety is good and change is not to be feared.  If results are slow or stalled, change in methods rather than increase in weight is usually the solution.  Our goal is not only to help each player achieve their maximum athletic potential, but also to provide leadership, guidance, and advice to those striving to play at the highest levels.  Whether it’s assistance with the college recruiting process, or problems in the class room, our staff is always here to help.  We coach, we train, we motivate, and we support our athletes in all walks of life.