Pre-Hitting Routine

Lighthouse Performance SYstems

Baseball , Softball
Coach
Brian Roller

Are you aiming to improve Swing Efficiency, Gain Exit Velocity, Timing & Reduce your risk of injury? This routine will help you achieve your aim!

This is a Pre-Hitting Routine intended to be completed before all higher intent batting practice days

The selected movements focus on 3 phases of the swing: Loading, Swing (Acceleration) & Swing (Deceleration)

Within the routines, the biomechanical focus will be centered around creating space and holding tension within the hip, rotate from the pelvis, creating separation of hips & shoulders, maintain space for hands to stay inside, extend through the ball

In this program, there are THREE, routines (2 Weeks Each) to get you started. But is also adaptable as you can extend each routine out for as long as you'd like, or mix and match exercises.

As a bonus, there is an On-Field Dynamic Warm-up included that you can follow prior to beginning your Pre-Hitting Routine. ADDITIONALLY, there are Med Ball Drills to be completed following your Pre-Hitting Routine to "feel"/cement new found ability & potentiate going into batting practice.

Anything worth doing is worth doing with 100% QUALITY, INTENTIONAL effort. This program is written to remove the fluff and provide you with a streamlined approach to get into the proper shapes, develop motor learning skills & prime your nervous system to do your job efficiently, have a quality batting practice session and to be more effective for your team!

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Develop with Guidance of Professionals
Brian is a professional S&C coach with over a decade of coaching experience at the NCAA Division I level. He has coached several conference championship teams, 25+ MLB draft picks, numerous MLS draft picks and multiple international competitors.
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Improve Your Kinetic Sequence of Hitting
3 phases of the swing: Loading, Swing (Acceleration) & Swing (Deceleration): Creating space and holding tension within the hip, Rotate from the Pelvis, create separation of hips & shoulders, Maintain space for hands to stay inside, Extend through the ball
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Help Your Team Win
3 different Pre-Hitting Routines that you can add to your toolbox immediately! Be a landmark in the batting order. Become undeniable!
Features
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Programming 3 days per week
Daily pre-hitting routine, improving your movement capacity & preparing you to swing efficiently
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Exercise Video Guidance
Demo videos for every movement to guide you along your development. All you need to do is execute!
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Detailed, expert instruction
Have the confidence in your effort through the guidance of a coach with skin in the game!
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Delivered through TrainHeroic
Everything you need in one, easy to use app!
Equipment
Required
Bat // Med Ball
Recommended
Bands // Foam Roller // Kettlebell
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Sample Week
Week 1 of 6-week program
Sunday
Pre-Hitting Routine - Block 1

A

Dynamic Warmup 1

1 x 1 @ 20

B1

Banded Lumbar Cat Camels

2 x 10

B2

Side Lying T-Spine Windmill

2 x 8

B3

Wall Kickstand Hinge w/ Foam Roll

2 x 8

B4

PRI Standing Lat Stretch

2 x 30

C1

Thoracic Spine CARs

3 x 3

C2

Figure 8 Med Ball Throw

3 x 5

C3

Split Stance MB Chop Fake Throw

3 x 5

Tuesday
Pre-Hitting Routine - Block 1

A

Dynamic Warmup 1

1 x 1 @ 20

B1

Banded Lumbar Cat Camels

2 x 10

B2

Side Lying T-Spine Windmill

2 x 8

B3

Wall Kickstand Hinge w/ Foam Roll

2 x 8

B4

PRI Standing Lat Stretch

2 x 30

C1

Thoracic Spine CARs

3 x 3

C2

Figure 8 Med Ball Throw

3 x 5

C3

Split Stance MB Chop Fake Throw

3 x 5

Thursday
Pre-Hitting Routine - Block 1

A

Dynamic Warmup 1

1 x 1 @ 20

B1

Banded Lumbar Cat Camels

2 x 10

B2

Side Lying T-Spine Windmill

2 x 8

B3

Wall Kickstand Hinge w/ Foam Roll

2 x 8

B4

PRI Standing Lat Stretch

2 x 30

C1

Thoracic Spine CARs

3 x 3

C2

Figure 8 Med Ball Throw

3 x 5

C3

Split Stance MB Chop Fake Throw

3 x 5

Coach
coach-avatar Brian Roller

Brian Roller is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Coach. He is currently a professional hockey S&C Coac, former DI S&C coach and DIII Men’s Ice Hockey player. With over a decade of coaching experience and two decades on the ice, Brian has seen what it takes to win at a high level. Brian has worked with hundreds of athletes of all ages; from youth, high school, collegiate and professional.

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