HitTrax Baseball Simulator Enhances Platform For Mobile, Outdoor Use

November 10, 2017 by admin

SPORTS BIOMETRICS NEWS

November 10, 2017

As a high school and college baseball player who had read Ted Williams’ “The Science of Hitting,” Mike Donfrancesco understood the need to elevate the ball. “I had a little bit of pop,” said Donfrancesco, who played at Boston University in the early 1990s, “and I was always trying to hit the ball 20 degrees, not even understanding what the launch angle term was.

Eighteen months ago, when Chris Wilder had just taken charge of Sheffield United, he sat down with journalists to outline his footballing philosophy. “I want players to win tackles, headers and races,” he insisted, over and over and over, during a series of round table interviews.

Once or twice a year, coaches get a chance to look back and reflect on their training program with the goal of evaluating its effectiveness. By consistently assessing and tracking this data, we are able to see what worked (to keep using) and what didn’t (to ditch).

Although it’s been around for decades, the jump rope is still an effective training tool. This article presents ways to integrate rope skipping into athletic development sessions and explains why all strength and conditioning coaches add ropes to their GPP toolkit.

Muscular fatigue and inter‐limb strength asymmetry are factors known to influence hamstring injury risk, however limb‐specific exacerbation of knee flexor (hamstrings) torque production after fatiguing…