Today, I was talking to the coach of a 14U team who isstruggling at the plate.
They haven't been hitting well this year at all.
After asking him several questions, it became prettyclear what the problem might be.
You see - according to him, they work a lot on hitting.
I told him that they work a lot on hitting fundamentalsbut no so much on hitting.
He was puzzled and confused.
You see, hitting is a lot more than a sweet swing.
Hitting is...
1) Reading cues and tracking the ball well2) Making decisions (pitch selection)3) Ajusting to various locations and moving pitches4) Hitting according to the situation5) The approach to the plate and the mental part ofhitting
You see, if you only work on the swing, you are missinga bit part of the equation.
You have to integrate all of those other elements intoyour training in order to develop high-level hitting.
Having a "sweet swing" is a good start but you also haveto see the ball, recognize what pitch it is and whereit is going, decide if you will swing or not, makeadjustments, and more.
Make your hitting training much more than just "swing"training.
If you want to learn more about integrating all of theseperformance elements into your batting practices, get acopy of my Super Hitting Bundle.
http://www.softballperformance.com/products/super-hitting-bundle.html
Hitting is the most important part of the game withpitching. You've got to work on it!
Team Roster
- Andi Delianovan
- Cassidy Perkins
- Jaycee Slack
- Jordan Larson
- Katie Kastanas
- Kirsten Andersen
- Krista DeKorver
- L'sha Eldridge
- Makenzi Evans
- Samantha Jones
- Shelby Holt
Friday, November 28, 2008
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Mesquite
Weather to anticipate tomorrow in Mesquite:
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PREPARE
Without preparation, do you still have that "by-product?" Just something to think about. Okay, about the players...
During the off season, players can:Improve agility: dot drills and jumping rope are greatImprove speed & conditioning: high intensity stair workouts are awesomeImprove strength: if you don't have access to a weight room, light dumbbells and body weight exercises can go a long waySet goals for the season: why wait until the season starts to think about what you want to accomplish? Start visualizing and thinking about what you want to accomplish nowNail Academics: this is the perfect time to pick up, or solidify your grades! Study hard now so that you're not behind when the season comes. You know you're only going to get busier then. Work mechanics: the season is not the best time to mess with mechanic, but if there's an area you know you can improve in as far as mechanics go, work it now. Using a mirror at home can be a big help. You don't always have to throw a softball to work on throwing mechanics - use a nerf, or newspaper, or socks and work on your form in front of a mirror so you can get instant feedback on what you're doing
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
BIG MISTAKE ON THE SCHEDULE, PLEASE READ!!!
OOPS,
OUR FIRST GAME WILL BE AT 6:15 (7:15 UT TIME) ON FIELD 3 AND SECOND GAME AT 7:30 (830 UT TIME) ON FIELD 2...
HAVE THE GIRLS THERE AT 5:15 (615 UT TIME) REMEMBER THE TIME CHANGE...THEY ARE AN HOUR BEHIND US...
CAR POOL NEEDS OR SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS GIVE COACH MEL A CALL. OUR NUMBER IS STILL ONLY 9 PLAYERS...WE NEED EVERYBODY THERE AND RARING TO GO...ANY GREAT PLAYERS YOU KNOW...GIVE MEL A CALL...WE WOULD BE BETTER OFF GOING WITH 11.
SEE YOU TONIGHT AT PRACTICE FROM 5 TO 7 ON THE CITY FIELDS AND I AM SO SORRY FOR ANY CHAOS THIS CAUSED...
IF YOU COULD PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL SO WE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE THE SCHEDULE CHANGE IT WOULD BE HELPFUL.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Mesquite Tournament.
We will be playing at 7 PM on field 2 at the Pioneer Park fields in Mesquite, Nevada. We need to have everyone on the field at 6:00. It is important that you are there on time as we are, at this point only playing with 9 girls so if we are not able to get pick up players there will be no extra players for our tournament. Late players mean forfeit...yikes. Remember that there is an hour time change if you are living in UT...make the needed adjustments...Nevada is an hour behind UT. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get the girls there on time...Any need for car pool or place to stay on Friday night feel free to give me a call.
Mel has been on the phone trying to get 2 extra players to make sure we have a safety net. She is having no luck. If you have any suggestions for her of cabable players give her a call..
See you guys at practice, from 5 to 7 tomorrow.
Have the girls bring a new unwrapped toy to the tournament, the donations will help to make a child's christmas special...Each girl is expected to participate.
Directions to the Field:
Merge I15 south towards Las Vegas
Take exit 122
Turn left onto I15 Blue Pioneer Blvd. Continue to follow I15 BL S
Turn left onto Hillside Dr.
End 501 Hillside Dr.
REMEMBER TO BE THERE ON TIME...THANKS
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Stolen CDS
At the last tournament Coach Mel had a whole set of her music CDs stolen. Someone took them right out of her jeep. If any of you have any of these titles will you let me know...it would be nice to burn them so we could replace what she has lost...Or if any of you accidently grabbed them with the equipment and ended up with them let her know...
Here is the list:
Foo Fighters: "Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace"
Jack Johnsen: "Curious George Soundtrack"
Dashboard Confessionals: "Places You have come to fear the most", and "Swiss Army Romance"
Counting Crows: "August and Everything After", "Hard Candy"
Whole Collection of Simon and Garfunkle
Dave Matthews Band: "Under the Table and Dreaming", "Crash", "Before These Crowded Streets"
Thanks.
Sherry
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Practice and Tournament Schedule
We will have a practice for the girls that can attend tomorrow from 5-7 at the city fields. Batting and Diving will be the focus...come and have fun.
The schedule will be available later this evening. If any of the girls need a place to stay Friday night please let me know and I can have them stay with me or with Jen Fielding...we are happy to help and the girls love a slumber party.
There were some concerns about playing time, and some comments...so Coach Mel and Coach Troy have decided to go to this tournament with fewer players...MAKE SURE that you are there so this strategy does not fail us...I think we are at 10 players...so that is tight. Last week we recruited and ended up with alot, as there was some uncertainty about attendance. The coach is fielding these calls again for this tournament. Once you commit to a tournament it is mandatory that you attend. Pulling out at the last minute is not fair to the other girls and their families who have all invested time and money...please let me know what we can do better to make commitment easier. We look forward to seeing everyone that committed there. Thanks for all the efforts for the good of these girls...Great parents make great teams...
I also want to take a moment here to thank our coaches that are volunteering their time...tons of it, that reaches way beyond the time on the field. Neither one of our coaches has a girl on the team and still they are donating countless hours of their time...we are so lucky...Thanks Mel and Troy. We sure appreciate you.
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
Learning new things...
I realize more than ever than kids today want results now.
If it doesn't work right away, it's no good!
Why is that?
They are used to getting everything right away.
They live in a world with...
- Instant chat-
Instant texting-
Instant 24/7 news-
Instant download-
instant pain relief
- etc.
Even most of the advertising today for variousproducts promises quick, if not almost instant results.
Bottom line - young athletes are conditioned to instant results.
Today's society is losing track that success takes work, effort and time.
There is a quote that says:
"The only place where success comes before work, it's invthe dictionary!"
And that's true. More specifically... LEARNING TAKES TIME!
Learning a new skill or changing a bad habit doesn't happen over night. IT TAKES TIME!
And you need to work at it too.
Here's in a a nutshell how learning works:
At first, when you learn a new way of doing something, your performance doesn't improve, it goes down! Why? Because you are not used to this new way yet and you are thinking about it.
As a lot of coaches say: "It's not in your muscle memory yet!"
After a while, this new way will become more natural and it's only at this point that you will get better. You've got to be patient. If you fix your swing mechanics, it will not pay off right away. It will be off in a couple of weeks or even months.
Again, remember this: LEARNING TAKES TIME! And effort. And work.
When you learn something new, of course, it will not work rightaway and it is very likely to be worse than it was until you master the new technique!!!
Train hard. Play hard.
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Friday, November 14, 2008
More from Marc
Marc Dagenais - Softball to me show details 5:35 AM (2 hours ago) Reply
10 Rules to Shift the Odds In Your Favor
Hi Kirsten,
I'm a firm believer is shifting the odds in your favor.
Softball is somewhat of a complex game.
Yet, to be successful, it comes back to accomplishing afew very simple things.
Doing those simple things will "shift the odds in yourfavor."
What are these simple things?
Here's my top 10 list of rules to shift the shift the oddsin your favor.
1) Pitching - keep the ball low most of the time and on thecorners.
How many hitters do you know that can hit an inside or outsidelow pitches very hard?
2) Pitching - Throw strikes early. Get ahead in the count. Then mix.
3) Avoid walks at almost all cost except in a few situations.
I'm allergic to walks. Most of the time, almost 60-70% come toscore - especially when given early in the inning.
4) Don't give easy bases to any runner, especially to thetrail runner.
5) Always get at least one "sure" out. Lead runner if you can.
The team that gets to 21 out the fastest usually wins.
6) Catchers or any fielder - don't throw if you have almostno chance to get an out.
The team that makes the least errors usually wins.
7) Swing at strikes and if you are going to swing at a bad pitch -swing hard.
Even if you are chasing a bad pitch, at least, send a message orswing hard enough to maybe get a scratch hit out of it insteadof a lazy pop-up or weak grounder.
8) With two strikes and less than 3 balls - swing at anything thatlooks like a strike.
I would rather go down fighting and have a chance to hit than getbeat without a fight.
9) Be aggressive on the bases. Make the defense work to get you out.
10) Get the sacrifice bunt down in fair territory and don't aim forthe lines.
The purpose of the hitter in a sac bunt situation is not to be safeat first. It's the to advance the runner. Too many are trying outto bunt the perfect ball - often along the lines and it rolls in foulterritory.
Make sure the ball is in play well inside the lines and just try tobunt not directly at a fielder to make sure the runnerwill make it safely to the next base.
Bottom line...
Offensively - Put the ball in play. Swing the ball hard. Run a lot. challenge the defense.
Defensively - Get at least one "sure" out on every play. Avoid walkslike the plague in most situations. Keep the ball low most of the time.Get ahead in the count. Don't get easy bases. Force the opposite team to "earn" theirruns - don't give them to them.
These are somewhat very simple and very basic.
Yet, I see many youth teams forget about it. They often lose focus by focusing toomuch on the more advance strategies.
I'm been applying and "really emphazing" these basic rules withmy pitchers, catchers, fielders, and hitters very systematically overthe years - very successfully.
And at various levels of game from 12U to 23U.
The thing is that you have to always emphasize them untilit becomes second nature - even though most of them are very obvious.
Play to shift the odds in your favor and win A LOT more games.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Roster for this Tournament
We are again running close on players, particularly on Saturday, and need to be sure we can count on you each to be there, we had a couple last minute cancellations. It is hard to keep everything balanced...too many on the roster means not enogh game time for the girls, but when we run a smaller roster it is really hard when we have last minute things come up. Emergencies happen, but it sure makes things exciting at the last minute... If you have not contacted coach Mel you are expected there on Friday and Saturday for the games...Thanks for your support we will see you at practice tomorrow...
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This weekend's Schedule
Game time will be Friday night at 6:00 PM on field 3 at the canyons.. Have the girls there at 430 for warm ups
Second game will be either at 8:30 if we win game one or 9:45 if we lose.
If you need directions to the fields you can contact me privately...thanks for everything and lets have a wonderful tournament...
Remember Practice at the Cedar City Fields from 5 to 7 tomorrow.
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Great stuff from my buddy Marc
Earlier this year, in the spring, I was working witha young hitter who also happened to be a very good pitcher. Let me rephrase that. I was working with a terrific young pitcher who was wasting her time swinging the bat - in her mind. You see, she was coming from a baseball family where pitchers(her dad and brothers are all pitchers) don't hit.
Furthermore, that perception was reinforced by her own coaches who didn't want her to get her hurt to protect their precious jewel the year before. Mind you - she was 12 years old.
Basically, in her mind, she was no hitter. However, today, I am not writing about whether pitchers should hit or not - that's not the purpose of this article.
It was just to set the table.
So, why was I working with her on her hitting then?
Because, a SMART coach saw how athletic she was and asked meto spend time with her on her hitting believing she could bea great hitting asset to the team. I saw the same thing. She could be a good hitter. Her swing was not good at all but she had all the tools to bea good hitter.
One exception - in her mind - she was not! She didn't see herself as a hitter.
Most of my work with that kid was spent telling her how great of ahitter she could be and working on having her SEE in the theaterof her mind that she was hitting beautiful, game-winning, line-drivedoubles and triples.
Of course, I fixed part of her mechanics - easy task with such anatural athlete - but most of the time was spent getting her tobelieve SHE WAS a hitter.
I spoke to the coach again yesterday. Guess what happened this past summer?
You probably guessed it. She became a great asset to her 12U team finishing the season with a .473 batting average and was considered by the coach her second best hitter.
And she got the MVP because she also threw a bunch of shutouts during the summer.
The lesson here is that you have to BELIEVE and SEE YOURSELF IN YOUR MIND being successful before you can actually be successful on the field.
What is the saying already?
"Yes, we can!"
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Thursday Practice Schedule
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News from Mark
For those of you who don't know, in addition tocoaching softball, being a softball peak performance coach, I've also been teaching at the community college level for the past 10 years or so.
I currently teach nutrition, sports conditioning, and weight training classes.
I've also taught sports psychology and a few other fitness-related PE classes in the past.
Last week, in one of my nutrition classes, we were doing our traditional food log analysis.
I asked my students to keep a detailed food and exercise log for a whole week. After that, we input all the data into a popular online tracking software and look at the results.
This is the most significant exercise of the semester as students get to learn a lot about their own eating habits and are often shocked at what they find out!
One of my students is a 6'3", 18-year-old talented female basketball player that plays for the college team.
We were looking at her numbers and what she discovered blew her away.
Her estimated daily caloric expenditure is around 4000 calories which is totally normal for such a tall and active elite athleteof that age.
Her daily caloric intake for that week was around 2600 calories.
That's a 1400-calorie deficit per day! This is huge!
This is really bad news for an elite athlete.
Talking to her, i learned that she is often tired and has a hard time focusing in class, especially in the afternoon. And at that time, she had a cold that just wouldn't go away. Guess what?
All of that might have surprised her but I was not surprised one bit. This is VERY TYPICAL of student-athletes. Most of them are so busy with school and training that they don't eat enough.
And a lot of the time, they don't eat well either. And then they expect to perform well!
Try to run a car without gas - you will not go too far.
You've got to feed the machine!!! And you've got to feed with good stuff, not crap like highly processed or fast food. You have to eat more, eat more often, and make better choices more often if you want to perform well. And guess what - nutrition does play a role in softball, especially when you train regularly and play at a high level.
Here are a few additional nutrition tips for you:
http://www.softballperformance.com/softball-tips/sports-nutrition-tips.html
http://www.discussfastpitch.com/softball-training/274-nutrition-tips-softball.html
Eat more. Perform more.
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Friday, November 7, 2008
How to maximize Off Season Time
It's the off-season.
It's time to:
1) Rest and recover from last season.
2) Heal injuries.
3) Do conditioning to get faster, stronger, more powerful, andprevent injuries.
4) Work on fundamentals.
In other words, it's time to get better for next season!
Often, people wonder - what should I do more of?
In an ideal world - everything!
In reality, there is just not enough time.
Fundamentals is the most important as softball is a highlytechnical sport that requires you to master a variety ofcomplex skills.
Within fundamentals, should you more defense (throwing, fielding)or offense(hitting, bunting, etc.)?
My answer is: offense.
Especially if you are in an indoor environment for part ofthe year because of the winter.
Why?
Because hitting is like golf, it takes A LOT of time tolearn, refine, and master. It's even harder than golf becauseyou're hitting a moving object.
Because it's like pitching - you need to work on it for hoursto improve a little at a time. To get your mechanics and yourtiming right.
Of course, you need to work on defense. But you can change themechanics of fielding and throwing much faster than you canchange the mechanics of hitting.
Pitching and hitting should be the MAIN focus of the off-season.
Then, defense and conditioning are next in line.
If you want a split, I would spent 60-70% of the time on the firsttwo and 30-40% of the time on the next two.
Train hard. Play hard.
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SATURDAY PRACTICE
Team,
Remember we have a Saturday Practice at 2:00 PM at Canyon View High School. See you all there.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
WHEN DUANE KNUDSON, a professor of kinesiology at California State University, Chico, looks around campus at athletes warming up before practice, he sees one dangerous mistake after another. “They’re stretching, touching their toes. . . . ” He sighs. “It’s discouraging.”
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STRAIGHT-LEG MARCH (for the hamstrings and gluteus muscles)Kick one leg straight out in front of you, with your toes flexed toward the sky. Reach your opposite arm to the upturned toes. Drop the leg and repeat with the opposite limbs. Continue the sequence for at least six or seven repetitions.
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SCORPION (for the lower back, hip flexors and gluteus muscles) Lie on your stomach, with your arms outstretched and your feet flexed so that only your toes are touching the ground. Kick your right foot toward your left arm, then kick your left foot toward your right arm. Since this is an advanced exercise, begin slowly, and repeat up to 12 times.
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HANDWALKS (for the shoulders, core muscles and hamstrings) Stand straight, with your legs together. Bend over until both hands are flat on the ground. ‘‘Walk’’ your hands forward until your back is almost extended. Keeping your legs straight, inch your feet toward your hands, then walk your hands forward again. Repeat five or six times.
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If you’re like most of us, you were taught the importance of warm-up exercises back in grade school, and you’ve likely continued with pretty much the same routine ever since. Science, however, has moved on. Researchers now believe that some of the more entrenched elements of many athletes’ warm-up regimens are not only a waste of time but actually bad for you. The old presumption that holding a stretch for 20 to 30 seconds — known as static stretching — primes muscles for a workout is dead wrong. It actually weakens them. In a recent study conducted at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, athletes generated less force from their leg muscles after static stretching than they did after not stretching at all. Other studies have found that this stretching decreases muscle strength by as much as 30 percent. Also, stretching one leg’s muscles can reduce strength in the other leg as well, probably because the central nervous system rebels against the movements.
“There is a neuromuscular inhibitory response to static stretching,” says Malachy McHugh, the director of research at the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. The straining muscle becomes less responsive and stays weakened for up to 30 minutes after stretching, which is not how an athlete wants to begin a workout.
THE RIGHT WARM-UP should do two things: loosen muscles and tendons to increase the range of motion of various joints, and literally warm up the body. When you’re at rest, there’s less blood flow to muscles and tendons, and they stiffen. “You need to make tissues and tendons compliant before beginning exercise,” Knudson says.
A well-designed warm-up starts by increasing body heat and blood flow. Warm muscles and dilated blood vessels pull oxygen from the bloodstream more efficiently and use stored muscle fuel more effectively. They also withstand loads better. One significant if gruesome study found that the leg-muscle tissue of laboratory rabbits could be stretched farther before ripping if it had been electronically stimulated — that is, warmed up.
To raise the body’s temperature, a warm-up must begin with aerobic activity, usually light jogging. Most coaches and athletes have known this for years. That’s why tennis players run around the court four or five times before a match and marathoners stride in front of the starting line. But many athletes do this portion of their warm-up too intensely or too early. A 2002 study of collegiate volleyball players found that those who’d warmed up and then sat on the bench for 30 minutes had lower backs that were stiffer than they had been before the warm-up. And a number of recent studies have demonstrated that an overly vigorous aerobic warm-up simply makes you tired. Most experts advise starting your warm-up jog at about 40 percent of your maximum heart rate (a very easy pace) and progressing to about 60 percent. The aerobic warm-up should take only 5 to 10 minutes, with a 5-minute recovery. (Sprinters require longer warm-ups, because the loads exerted on their muscles are so extreme.) Then it’s time for the most important and unorthodox part of a proper warm-up regimen, the Spider-Man and its counterparts.
“TOWARDS THE end of my playing career, in about 2000, I started seeing some of the other guys out on the court doing these strange things before a match and thinking, What in the world is that?” says Mark Merklein, 36, once a highly ranked tennis player and now a national coach for the United States Tennis Association. The players were lunging, kicking and occasionally skittering, spider-like, along the sidelines. They were early adopters of a new approach to stretching.
While static stretching is still almost universally practiced among amateur athletes — watch your child’s soccer team next weekend — it doesn’t improve the muscles’ ability to perform with more power, physiologists now agree. “You may feel as if you’re able to stretch farther after holding a stretch for 30 seconds,” McHugh says, “so you think you’ve increased that muscle’s readiness.” But typically you’ve increased only your mental tolerance for the discomfort of the stretch. The muscle is actually weaker.
Stretching muscles while moving, on the other hand, a technique known as dynamic stretching or dynamic warm-ups, increases power, flexibility and range of motion. Muscles in motion don’t experience that insidious inhibitory response. They instead get what McHugh calls “an excitatory message” to perform.
Dynamic stretching is at its most effective when it’s relatively sports specific. “You need range-of-motion exercises that activate all of the joints and connective tissue that will be needed for the task ahead,” says Terrence Mahon, a coach with Team Running USA, home to the Olympic marathoners Ryan Hall and Deena Kastor. For runners, an ideal warm-up might include squats, lunges and “form drills” like kicking your buttocks with your heels. Athletes who need to move rapidly in different directions, like soccer, tennis or basketball players, should do dynamic stretches that involve many parts of the body. “Spider-Man” is a particularly good drill: drop onto all fours and crawl the width of the court, as if you were climbing a wall. (For other dynamic stretches, see the sidebar below.)
Even golfers, notoriously nonchalant about warming up (a recent survey of 304 recreational golfers found that two-thirds seldom or never bother), would benefit from exerting themselves a bit before teeing off. In one 2004 study, golfers who did dynamic warm- up exercises and practice swings increased their clubhead speed and were projected to have dropped their handicaps by seven strokes over seven weeks.
Controversy remains about the extent to which dynamic warm-ups prevent injury. But studies have been increasingly clear that static stretching alone before exercise does little or nothing to help. The largest study has been done on military recruits; results showed that an almost equal number of subjects developed lower-limb injuries (shin splints, stress fractures, etc.), regardless of whether they had performed static stretches before training sessions. A major study published earlier this year by the Centers for Disease Control, on the other hand, found that knee injuries were cut nearly in half among female collegiate soccer players who followed a warm-up program that included both dynamic warm-up exercises and static stretching. (For a sample routine, visit www.aclprevent.com/pepprogram.htm.) And in golf, new research by Andrea Fradkin, an assistant professor of exercise science at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, suggests that those who warm up are nine times less likely to be injured.
“It was eye-opening,” says Fradkin, formerly a feckless golfer herself. “I used to not really warm up. I do now.”
You’re Getting Warmer: The Best Dynamic Stretches
These exercises- as taught by the United States Tennis Association’s player-development program – are good for many athletes, even golfers. Do them immediately after your aerobic warm-up and as soon as possible before your workout.
STRAIGHT-LEG MARCH
(for the hamstrings and gluteus muscles)
Kick one leg straight out in front of you, with your toes flexed toward the sky. Reach your opposite arm to the upturned toes. Drop the leg and repeat with the opposite limbs. Continue the sequence for at least six or seven repetitions.
SCORPION
(for the lower back, hip flexors and gluteus muscles)
Lie on your stomach, with your arms outstretched and your feet flexed so that only your toes are touching the ground. Kick your right foot toward your left arm, then kick your leftfoot toward your right arm. Since this is an advanced exercise, begin slowly, and repeat up to 12 times.
HANDWALKS
(for the shoulders, core muscles, and hamstrings)
Stand straight, with your legs together. Bend over until both hands are flat on the ground. “Walk” with your hands forward until your back is almost extended. Keeping your legs straight, inch your feet toward your hands, then walk your hands forward again. Repeat five or six times. G.R.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
UPDATE FOR SATURDAY PRACTICE
Hi Team,
The city field is still not ready to play on so we will be practicing Saturday at the Canyon View field at 2:00 PM
See you there.
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
Monday FHE Fundraiser 6-8 Mc Donald;s in Cedar
Invite all your neighbors to support us at our fundraiser at the Cedar City Mc Donalds...the girls will be working at Mc Donald's and the restraunt will give us a percentage of the profits for the time we are there.
Have your daughter there with a poster and a tip jar...
Let's rally the city to support Pegasus softball...
All team members are expected to participate.
Have the girls there a few minutes early so that they can be taught what they need to do...
See you there. 6-8 PM McDonalds...
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
Everyone remember the fundraiser Monday November, 3
All the team members are required to be there.
McDonalds in Cedar City i will post the time soon!
See you there! :)
Sherry
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success
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