Softball
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

Blue Dragon Softball 2021

2020-2021 marked the first year of my role as Assistant Softball Coach for the lady Blue Dragons at Hutchinson CC.  I spent my hours each week leading the young women through workouts to help build strength, prevent injury, and hopefully find a way to fall in love with fitness as

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Softball
Anna Woods

Core for Throwing: Strength Sessions

As part of our Core for Throwing seminars, the past 4 weeks —Dr. Jared Shoemaker and I  have been working through core strength exercises, positions, and breathing patterns to help young softball players/volleyball players “feel” what using her oblique sling should feel like.  From there we helped the girls find

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She Strength Stories
Anna Woods

sheSTRENGTH Lady Athletes ARE KILLING it!

These sheSTRENGTH lady athletes are KILLING it!! I have had the AMAZING opportunity the past week and weekend to watch these young ladies compete in the sports they love. We work weekly on making each of them better athletes inside and out, to be able to compete like they are,

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Learn to Lift
Anna Woods

Building Strength in Your Driving Leg for Fastpitch

Tess is demonstrating a toe-loading drill in lateral stance.  Implementing the 2nd phase of a pitch, right before take-off and release.  I stole this idea from @Fosterfastpitch on IG. And we have started adding it into your workout routines with various loading patterns.  The concept is learning to load the

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Learn to Lift
Anna Woods

Power for Fastpitch

Being a fast pitch softball pitcher involves many elements of athleticism.  One of the biggest pieces of addressing athleticism, and therefore increasing speed of the pitch, relates to power.  Building power in an athlete starts from the ground up.  One of the most overlooked pieces of creating power is foot-load. 

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