Imel Performance

Baseball , Softball
Coach
Ethan Imel

The Complete Ballplayer Blueprint

After years of training athletes and coaching performance, I have consistently found myself coming back to the conjugate system. The results speak for themselves. High intent training, balanced development of strength and power, constant variation to avoid stagnation, and the ability to train multiple athletic qualities at the same time make it one of the most effective systems I have used for developing athletes long term.

What I wanted to do with this program was take the best aspects of conjugate training and combine them with everything a Baseball and Softball athlete truly needs to perform at a high level. This is not a powerlifting program adapted for baseball. Every aspect of this system was built around developing explosive, resilient, athletic ballplayers while still respecting the demands of throwing, sprinting, rotational power, and long seasons.

This is a 12-week, 4-day per week performance system built specifically for serious Baseball and Softball athletes. Throughout the program athletes will develop maximal strength, explosive power, sprint speed, rotational power, jump performance, upper body explosiveness, movement quality, hypertrophy, and overall athleticism and resilience.

Lower body days focus on acceleration, max velocity sprinting, plyometric development, and force production through a blend of max effort and dynamic effort lower body training. Upper body days focus on rotational medicine ball power, upper body explosiveness, hypertrophy, and throwing-friendly pressing variations. Athletes will sprint twice per week, perform upper body plyometric work twice per week, and train rotational power throughout the entire program.

One of the biggest goals of this system is to build complete athletes. Along with speed and power development, the program includes unilateral strength work, reactive plyometrics, microdosed change of direction work, yielding and overcoming isometrics, shoulder stability work, trunk development, and structured hypertrophy work to help athletes not only perform at a high level, but physically look and move like explosive athletes.

Throughout the program athletes will experience all aspects of the conjugate system, including max effort, dynamic effort, and repeated effort training methods. Upper body training progresses from more repeated effort and hypertrophy-focused work early in the program toward more explosive and force-oriented dynamic and max effort work later in the cycle.

This program is intended for High School, College, and adult Baseball/Softball athletes who are ready to train hard and develop every aspect of performance.

I hope you guys enjoy this program as much as I enjoyed creating it. See you on the inside.

Features
1 sessions per week
Must use App app to view and log training
Program Training
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Sample Week
Week 1 of 12-week program
Sunday
Week 1 Day 1: Acceleration, ME Squat, DE Pull

Prep

A

Lower Body Warm Up

Adductor Rockers 1x10 90/90 Hip Flow 1x5 ea Mini Band Lateral Walk 1x10 yd ea T-Spine Thread the Needle 1x8 ea Light Jog 60-100 yd Forward Skips w/ Arm Circles 1x15 yd Backward Skips w/ Arm Circles 1x15 yd Side Shuffle w/ Arm Swing 1x15 yd ea Extensive Pogo Hop Variations 3x10 yd Low Primetime 1x15 yd Big Primetime 1x15 yd Power Skips for Height 1x15 yd Power Skips for Distance 1x15 yd Falling or Half Kneeling Sprint Starts 2x4 hard steps Tuck Jumps 1x6

B1

High Ankle ISO

2 x 5

B2

Build Up Sprint 75%

2 x 20

C1

Sled Sprints

6 x 10

C2

20 Yard Sprint

D1

Band Resisted Broad Jump

3 x 3

D2

Max Effort Vertical Jump

3 x 2

E

SSB Hatfield Squat

5 x 5

F

Trap Bar Deadlifts

6 x 1

G1

DB Reverse Lunge

3 x 8

G2

Glute-Ham Raise

3 x 10

G3

Paloff Press

3 x 12

Monday
Week 1 Day 2: RE Upper, Rotational Power

Prep

A

Upper Body Warm Up

Side Lying Windmill 1x8 ea PVC Series 1x5 passes ea Prayer Stretch 1x20 sec T-Spine Thread the Needle 1x8 ea Handstands/Gymnastics (optional) Scap Push Up 2x10 Serratus Wall Slide 2x10 Band Pull Apart 2x20 Dynamic Blackburn 1x10

B1

Step Back MB Scoop Toss

3 x 3

B2

Open Stance MB Shot Put

3 x 3

B3

MB Granny Toss (distance)

3 x 3

C1

MB Chest Pass Plyo

2 x 15

C2

Deep Tier Push Up ISO

2 x 30

D1

Barbell Bench Press

4 x 8

D2

Lat Pulldown

4 x 10

E1

SA 1/2 Kneeling OH Press

3 x 8

E2

DB Lateral Raise

3 x 15

E3

Rolling Tricep extensions

3 x 12

F

DeadBug

3 x 10

Wednesday
Week 1 Day 3: Max Velocity, DE Squat, ME Pull

Prep

A

Lower Body Warm Up

Adductor Rockers 1x10 90/90 Hip Flow 1x5 ea Mini Band Lateral Walk 1x10 yd ea T-Spine Thread the Needle 1x8 ea Light Jog 60-100 yd Forward Skips w/ Arm Circles 1x15 yd Backward Skips w/ Arm Circles 1x15 yd Side Shuffle w/ Arm Swing 1x15 yd ea Extensive Pogo Hop Variations 3x10 yd Low Primetime 1x15 yd Big Primetime 1x15 yd Power Skips for Height 1x15 yd Power Skips for Distance 1x15 yd Falling or Half Kneeling Sprint Starts 2x4 hard steps Tuck Jumps 1x6

B1

Wall Switch Overcoming ISO

2 x 5

B2

Build Up Sprint 75%

2 x 30

C

Flying 10

D

Curvilinear Sprint

2 x 20

E1

High Pogo

3 x 10

E2

Box Jump

3 x 3

F

Box Squat

8 x 2

G

Trap Bar Deadlift

H1

Reverse Hyper Ext

3 x 12

H2

Cable Cross Woodchop

3 x 12

I

Glute Bridge ISO

2 x 60

Thursday
Week 1 Day 4: RE Upper, Rotational Power

Prep

A

Upper Body Warm Up

Side Lying Windmill 1x8 ea PVC Series 1x5 passes ea Prayer Stretch 1x20 sec T-Spine Thread the Needle 1x8 ea Handstands/Gymnastics (optional) Scap Push Up 2x10 Serratus Wall Slide 2x10 Band Pull Apart 2x20 Dynamic Blackburn 1x10

B1

MB Shuffle Scoop Toss

3 x 3

B2

MB Rotational Slam

3 x 3

B3

MB Pivot Shot Put

3 x 3

C1

Band Assisted Push Up

3 x 5

C2

OH MB Plyo

3 x 15

D1

Incline Swiss Bar Bench

4 x 10

D2

T-Bar Row

4 x 10

E1

Single Arm DB Shoulder Press

3 x 10

E2

Incline DB Curl

3 x 12

E3

Bent Over Rear Delt Fly

3 x 15

F

Ab Wheel

3 x 10

The Complete Ballplayer Blueprint