How to hit A Baseball With Power Video
Improve Your POWER In 4 Easy Steps | Baseball Hitting Tips
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hey it's coach Justin from ultimate
baseball training and today we're going
to be going over four simple ways to
improve your power at the plate because
every single hitter out there wants to
have more power to hit the ball harder
and further crush more doubles and
triples and home runs and all that so I
wanted to share with you four simple
things that are very very simple to
implement they're gonna take practice
but they're simple to implement and
they'll make a world of a difference
with your power so let's get into it the
first thing that's super simple but it's
not talked about a whole lot in baseball
it's talked about in other sports but
not so much in baseball is exhaling as
you make contact okay so what I mean is
trying to sync up your breathing to when
you actually hit the baseball and you
make contact with the ball exhaling as
you make contact with the ball and you
see this all the time in other sports in
tennis that's what they teach you as
you're doing a server as you're you know
hitting the ball back towards your
opponent as you make contact they want
you to exhale right boxers same thing
right as you deliver that blow you're
expected to exhale same thing when
you're lifting weights if you're doing a
bench press let's say they tell you what
on the way down inhale on the way down
and then exhale on the way up because
that will help you deliver the most
power and obviously when we're talking
about power we want to deliver as much
force as we possibly can
on the baseball when we make contact
with this so just the simple act of
exhaling as you make contact is going to
help you get basically every ounce of
your body into the baseball so it's
something simple it's going to take some
practice though it's not the easiest
thing so you're gonna have to start
working on it just off of the tee and
soft toss and front toss and BP and then
eventually it'll transfer over into a
real game so I don't want you to obsess
over it and I want you to you know spend
too much time thinking about this but
just instead of worrying about when
you're doing T work you know what
happened in school today or whatever
instead of just mindlessly taking rep
after rep try to focus on syncing up
your breathing because I think it'll
make a world of a difference in the long
run another thing that's absolutely huge
for your power is
hitting the ball at the right spot okay
making contact at the correct contact
point and you might be asking well how
does this relate to power because when
you make contact at the proper contact
point depending on where the pitch is
located when you do that your swing is
going to be the most efficient at that
point and you're gonna have the most
strength and the most power at that
point so an example would be you know on
an inside pitch we hit the ball at a
slightly different contact point then we
do with a middle pitch or with an away
pitch wouldn't you agree
so on an inside pitch ideally if the
pitch is there we want to make contact a
little bit more out in front of the
plate than we would on an a middle pitch
or definitely on an outside pitch okay
so an inside pitch that's going to be
where we make contact actually closest
to the pitcher most far out in front of
the plate okay so on an inside pitch we
pull our hands in and we make contact
here that's going to be the most
efficient path to this baseball that's
going to be where we're strongest and
most powerful okay on a middle pitch
that contact point should ideally move
back a little bit here
so the most efficient way to hit this
ball is pretty much even with our front
foot or maybe slightly in front of our
front foot but if it's a middle pitch
and we make contact way out here instead
of where we're supposed to make contact
we make contact way out here that's not
very powerful that's not very efficient
that doesn't even look powerful or
strong right because we didn't make
contact at the correct contact point and
then the last point is obviously an away
pitch and you have varying degrees of
you know it's not just inside middle in
a way you know it can be anywhere in
between there but on an outside pitch
right and away pitch you let the ball
travel just a little bit deeper and then
you drive the baseball to the opposite
field right but on an outside pitch here
we don't want to make contact way out
front that's not the ideal contact point
and we're gonna have it around the ball
bat path there we're probably gonna hit
the top of the ball get topspin and hit
a ground ball so I think it's it's often
overlooked but just hitting the ball at
the right contact point will make a
world of a difference because that's
where your swing is going to be the most
efficient
and then the next thing whenever the
term power is thrown out there you
automatically hear the word backspin
come next right but backspin it is
important and I want to talk about you
know how you actually get backspin the
proper way because a lot of players
think that swinging down on the baseball
that's how you get that good backspin
but the chances of success are so slim
to none there your timing has to be
absolutely perfect if you swing down and
chances are you're going to swing you
miss you're going to beat the ball into
the ground and so that's not the most
ideal way to generate backspin the best
hitters in the world what they do to
generate backspin and they really get
that good carry on the ball they crush
doubles and home runs and they have a
lot of power which is what this video is
all about is power the way that they do
it is on the baseball here right imagine
this is a globe alright so imagine this
is in your classroom this is a globe and
obviously on a globe what splits the
globe in half you've got an equator
right so what you want to focus on to
really maximize your power is hitting
the baseball slightly ever so slightly
below that equator because if you do
you're gonna get backspin if you hit
above that equator the ball is going to
spin the other way you're going to get
topspin right so if you hit the top of
the ball topspin bottom of the ball if
you hit too low you're going to get too
much backspin that's gonna be when you
pop up to the catcher right it's going
to be so much backspin that you pop up
to the catcher okay and so we want to
hit you know hitting the baseball
squaring it up right in the middle of
the ball that's not bad I mean that's a
pretty good miss there if you square it
up perfectly right in the middle but but
when you're focusing on you know doing T
work and Softpaws front toss BP all of
that and even in a real game if you can
your goal should be to hit the ball the
inside part of the ball cuz you want to
stay inside it and you want to hit the
ball you want to strike it ever so
slightly below the equator that's going
to produce that backspin that you're
looking for and I just mentioned you
know staying inside the baseball I think
that that's absolutely crucial to
generating backspin no matter where the
pitch is located because when you take
this this inside the baseball approach
when you in other words I like to use
the term stay connected you're connected
here when everything is in tight to your
body this would be disconnected when
you're away from your body you're
disconnected
but when you take that good connected
swing right you're going to attack the
inside part of the baseball and you're
gonna have a higher likelihood of
hitting just slightly below that equator
but if you get disconnected okay and I
see this all the time on like low
pitches and on you know pitches on the
outer half of the plate when you get
disconnected away from yourself like
this what's going to happen is this is
an around the ball bat path it's going
around the ball bat path and so when you
do that you're actually your wrists are
gonna roll you're probably going to hit
the outside part of the ball and you're
going to hit the top of the ball and as
we just talked about what's that going
to produce it's going to produce that
topspin so if you want to improve your
power hit the ball slightly below that
equator and you got to make sure that
you stay connected so you take that
inside bat path and that'll get you what
you're looking for and then the last
thing I'll leave you with for today's
video this will really help with your
power and it's not an instant overnight
fix this is something that you've got to
work on over the long haul just
incorporate it into your training but
it'll make a world of a difference is
you have to work on rotational exercises
okay so improving your rotational power
that's going to directly correlate to
more power on the baseball field and I
think too many times you know don't get
me wrong lifting weights is absolutely
critical for any athlete that's looking
to play in a high level but a lot of the
times baseball players are doing
exercises in the gym that don't really
relate to what they do on a real
baseball field so you know obviously the
baseball swing and throwing for that
matter I think we can both agree there
is a huge rotational component in the
baseball swing and in throwing so the
more we can mimic that rotational
movement in our training off of the
field the better our results are going
to be on the field so that's the last
tip I'll leave you with improve your
rotational power if you'd like I can
make more more videos on this particular
topic but a few my favorite exercises
that you can start doing one of them is
get yourself a medicine ball and do
rotational medicine ball throws I don't
know if there's a movement out there
that simulates the baseball swing as
well as that rotational medicine ball
throw so definitely incorporate that you
know
landmines are another great exercise and
there's lots you can do with cables as
well get on the cable machine you can do
rotational exercises with that alright
and like I said drop a comment let me
know I'd be happy to you know show you
some more exercises that will help you
improve your rotational power but that's
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