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  Achieve optimal stamina for your best performance on the field

From the National Strength and Conditioning Association comes the definitive resource for developing the endurance training programs that maximize performance and minimize injuries. Developing Endurance provides both the background information and the exercises, drills, workouts, and programs for ultimate results. Players and coaches will appreciate the assessment tools, analyses, and instruction to define specific needs and establish effective training goals. Armed with these tools and information, you can create the ideal personalized training program for your baseball team and avoid lengthy plateaus while taking performance to the highest level.

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Limited time offer: Go Coach Baseball App Just 99 Cents!

   

As a youth baseball coach, your practice and game-day planning is a whole lot easier with Go Coach Baseball, an iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad compatible app developed by the American Sport Education Program (ASEP) and endorsed by Babe Ruth League, Inc.

Go Coach Baseball offers 32 video clips and 11 animations demonstrating 34 skills and 26 drills to organize and run your practices. The app’s optional slow-motion video setting (requires OS 3.2 and newer) allows you to view every detail of the skills and drills being performed. The Favorites feature allows you to save skills, drills, and video clips in one central folder—a great tool for planning and organizing activities for your next practice. Supplemental coaching tips and advice, safety guidelines and checklists, and guidance on season and practice plans will help you manage team activities off the field. Drawing content from ASEP’s Coaching Youth Baseball book, Go Coach Baseball is the authoritative app for any on-the-go coach.

For a limited time, get Go Coach Baseball for only 99 cents - nearly half off the regular price of $1.99! Offers ends April 30.

Order from the Apple App Store today!

   

Reacting to a Bunt

   

Read an excerpt from Coaching Baseball Technical and Tactical Skills

On all bunted balls, the catcher should scoop the ball by bringing his mitt and his hand together on the ball in much the same way that an earth-moving shovel used in construction scoops soil. As catchers develop this skill, they may then be able to flick the ball into the throwing hand with the mitt and quicken the process, but this technique is not recommended for beginning catchers. After scooping the ball, the catcher makes a quick right-left with his feet.

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Free webinar to address college eligibility and recruitment

   

The NCAA recently approved legislation that has greatly increased academic standards for NCAA freshman eligibility, including higher SAT/ACT score requirements and higher minimum core GPA requirements. The next installment in the ASEP Successful Coaching Webinar Series “NCAA’s New Academic Requirements and Impact on College Eligibility and Recruiting” will address these changes and educate coaches, athletic directors, student-athletes, and parents about the college recruiting process and academic eligibility in light of the stricter standards. Scheduled for Thursday, April 12, 1 to 2 pm eastern time, the webinar will be led by Dan Eassa of the Recruiting Education Foundation, Tampa, Florida.

Register for this free webinar today!

   

The best drills and practice games ever created

         

 

 

 

Tim Bishop discusses his book Stronger Legs & Lower Body

   

Stronger Legs & Lower Body offers the most effective strength training exercises and programs for increasing strength, size, power, and definition in lower-body muscle groups. With 15 training routines and more than 80 exercises ranging from stabilization to Olympic movements, the guide includes ready-to-use programs for every goal.

Click here to watch an interview with Tim Bishop. Bishop owns and operates PerformFit, creates strength and conditioning programs for Ripken Baseball’s summer camps and clinics, served as the strength and conditioning coach for the Baltimore Orioles for 14 years, and played professional baseball in the New York Yankees system.

   

Meet every decision-making challenge with this hot pick

   

Developed by an all-star cast of coaches selected by the American Baseball Coaches Association, Baseball Strategies is the most comprehensive resource ever written on the tactical aspects of the game. Providing the content are 18 of the game’s top strategists, including several coaches whose teams have totaled more than 1,000 wins and have won national championships. From position-specific responsibilities to situation-specific options to altering your game plan in the middle innings, Baseball Strategies covers all the bases to give you a winning advantage in thinking the game.

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