To be a baseball infielder, you need a certain skill set. These infielder skills include fielding a ground ball, catch a line drive, using good arm strength, throwing at different arm angles, and knowing how to catch a ball whether it’s a pop fly, bunt, or ground ball. You need agility, speed, and flexibility.
There are two types of infielders: Middle infield and Corner Infield. Middle Infielders tend to have great hands, quick feet, elite speed, and strong, accurate arms while Corner Infielders are power hitters that may lack speed but have good agility and lateral quickness.
That’s why we offer specific personal training for infielders. Beyond just baseball practice there are other places like our gym where you can hone those aforementioned skills.
Each one of our baseball personal training sessions is customized to meet the needs of the individual athlete. We consider your age, position, physical and mental maturity, athletic strengths and weaknesses, current fitness level, personal goals, etc. Our infielder training involves meeting two to three times a week for 60 or 90 minutes to work on lower body strength and explosiveness, speed and agility, lateral quickness, balance, and joint integrity.
A typical workout for infielders would start with a dynamic warm-up and then move into baseball-specific lower body strength work, including single leg work, fast twitch components to everything, unstable surface work, progressive resistance, etc. Next, plyometrics are the foundation of every leg workout we do. We then finish with balance and accessory work that targets the hips, knees, ankles, and feet, which are integral to injury prevention and power output.
From there, the next session focus on the upper body. For baseball, we avoid heavy chest, shoulder, and bicep work and instead focus on core strength, rotational power, shoulder stability, and the posterior chain. Like the lower body session, our upper body sessions utilize explosive movements, such as jammer swings, med ball throws and slams, Olympic lifts, plyometric movements, and rotational core work rather than just traditional sit-ups and crunches.
Other sessions include agility drills with hurdles or the quick foot ladder, resistance sprints with a sled or parachute, over speed sprint work with a bungee or declined surface, lateral quickness drills, and more.
To learn more about training for infielders, contact us today for an introductory training session that includes a tour of our gym and individual assessment.
