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Anna Woods

Attention Pitchers! Part 1: Mobility

https://youtu.be/NgIiTumN0yw Spending 5-10 minutes to foam roll at the beginning and end of a pitching session is important for short-term mobility during the pitching session. It also helps increase blood flow to the areas we will be using.  PLUS, it just plain feels good most days… It is great as

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Softball
Anna Woods

Attention Softball Pitchers!

“Big toe” for push-off Are you a pitcher who wants to get more out of their leg drive off the rubber?  Do you want more explosive force through your pitching motion? It can sometimes come down to 1 simple little change.     ——THE BIG TOE ALIGNMENT—– Coaches of many sports

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Anna Woods

Top Medicine Ball Drills for Power in Softball

Drill 1: 2-Foot Slam Athlete comes up on her toes raising the medicine ball overhead, she lifts her feet up off the floor and lands in a squat as she slams the ball into the floor using her hips and arms simultaneously.  She should land whole foot on the floor

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Anna Woods

Off-Season Work with Autum

https://youtu.be/1Y3edBHX0rM Med Ball Heaves In this drill, she has only completed 1-2 other times in the past year I’m working/looking for a few things. I like this drill because it helps her learn how to hinge her hips like a deadlift and power her hips through the middle like a

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Anna Woods

Meet Makenna: Maize South HS/Renegades Softball

Interview:  Tell us about yourself.  My name is Makenna Majors and I am 15 years old.  I play high school softball at Maize South HS and summer ball for the club team, Kansas Renegades.  I am a pitcher and play middle infield. What areas of strength training have helped you

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Softball
Anna Woods

Softball Players: Rethinking Abs

When we are looking to build core strength for softball players, we have to get away from the typical mindset of “crunches.”  I challenge the coaches of the teams I work with to consider the motions we complete in the softball world, and then, think about how best to “resist”

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Softball
Anna Woods

Meet Morgan: HCC Softball

Meet Morgan: Introduce Yourself: I’m Morgan Pennycuff, and I am a pitcher for the Hutchinson Community College softball team. I have been pitching since my early days of playing softball, and I pitched all throughout high school at Augusta, where we won a state championship in 2019. How did you

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