with Kris Massaro,
Founder/Owner of Softball Strong Training Program
Kris Massaro has trained hundreds of softball players throughout her career with great success in making them faster, stronger, and more flexible. She has worked with players from 8 years old to college and professional players. Her specialty is creating workouts developed upon the needs of position specific, speed skills and the mental side of player development.
Elite and aspiring elite softball players need to develop their bodies to deliver performance on the field and prevent injuries that can keep them out of the game. Kris Massaro presents a sound and practical collection of strength, speed and agility exercises that coaches at any level can employ to improve their athletes.
Massaro is renowned for developing "outside the box" exercise/training programs that translate directly to developing dynamic softball players on the field without being too complex. In this video, she covers the basics of a quality weight room program and provides you with a selection of exercises to develop explosiveness. She includes a selection of high quality plyometric exercises and closes with her proven program for improving player mobility.
This multifaceted video is an ideal tool to help you develop customized programs for your softball athletes. Massaro instructs proper technique to help prevent injury and provide the athlete with the best possible opportunity to gain an edge on the competition.
10 Most Influential Exercises
Weight room training for softball athletes is a must. With limited time, coaches must learn to maximize their time spent inside the weight room by choosing the most influential lifts. Coach Massaro demonstrates the 10 most influential exercises softball players should do. Using kettlebells or dumbbells, these exercises challenge the whole body and will help develop strength and get softball players stronger.
Plyometrics
Plyometric exercises incorporate jumping, which forces the softball player to be explosive as they exert maximum force quickly. Coach Massaro uses eight plyometric exercises to build the explosive power and mobility that translates into core strength and speed development.
Mobility
Getting strong isn't productive for softball players if the athletes get tight and cannot move in the process. Coach Massaro integrates a series of mobility exercises designed to utilize, stretch, and enhance flexibility of athletes as an integral part of their training routine. These exercises, which work hip mobility along with shoulder stability and core strength, require no special equipment and can be performed in the gym or on the field.
Challenge your team with an efficient and tough workout that will make them better players! These 24 exercises will give softball players the functional strength that will make an immediate impact on the field. Your athletes will be stronger, more explosive, and have better mobility on the field.
38 minutes. 2017.
SD-05114B:
with Kris Massaro,
Founder/Owner of Softball Strong Training Program
Kris Massaro has trained hundreds of softball players throughout her career with great success in making them faster, stronger, and more flexible. She has worked with players from 8 years old to college and professional players. Her specialty is creating workouts developed upon the needs of position specific, speed skills and the mental side of player development.
Every coach drills fielding, hitting, and base running, but only a few put a focus on conditioning players to make them stronger and faster. Imagine the benefits of players that are faster on the base paths, stronger in the batting box, and more agile playing defense.
In this video, Kris Massaro demonstrates unique stretches and exercises for softball players that will make them more flexible and reduce the amount of potential injuries. She covers a series of precise, high-intensity exercises that will make your players faster and stronger. These exercises can be done with minimal resources, adapted to both individual and group training, and are designed to build the entire body.
Stretching and Mobility Work
All teams stretch before working out or practicing, but is your team getting the most benefit from that stretching time? Start by putting your athletes through a four-step hip mobility routine, activating the muscles in the hip joint that are necessary for every movement in softball. Learn an eight-step dynamic stretching routine that will promote flexibility and movement, preparing your athletes to be fast and explosive on the softball field. The range of fielders, especially the middle fielders, increases with mobility and explosiveness.
Sprinting
Speed is critical, as it is one of the few tools that helps softball players on both offense and defense. Learn how to be fast and explosive with the first step. Massaro introduces drills for improving the five aspects of the start. She goes further by teaching non-traditional start variations that directly translate to high performance for softball athletes. In one particular set of drills, the players start by laying down flat on the ground, to build first step acceleration and explosiveness. Having quick first steps will allow athletes to steal more bases and track down more balls on defense.
High Intensity Circuits
Prepare your players for athletic excellence with an eight-exercise high intensity circuit that will push athletes to perform while maintaining proper form and mechanics. These activities are hand-picked by Coach Massaro to develop mobility, balance, and explosive power. The focus is on improving your players' athleticism and mobility while challenging their stamina with this fast-paced, demanding routine.
Looking for your team to gain an edge on the softball diamond? This video may be exactly what you're looking for! Massaro introduces a blueprint for creating a more athletic softball player. With these 32 exercises, you will equip your softball players to become more mobile, more explosive, and better overall athletes.
34 minutes. 2017.
SD-05114C:
with Kris Massaro,
Founder/Owner of Softball Strong Training Program
Kris Massaro has trained hundreds of softball players throughout her career with great success in making them faster, stronger, and more flexible. She has worked with players from 8 years old to college and professional players. Her specialty is creating workouts developed upon the needs of position specific, speed skills and the mental side of player development.
Softball has become an increasingly specialized sport, with the skills required on defense differing greatly from those necessary to be successful on offense. Training for these positions, therefore, needs to be specialized to get the most out of your athletes.
Kris Massaro shares her philosophy on how to take specialized knowledge and training methods used in the weight room and turf and translate them to improved performance at the plate and on the mound. Her principles develop high levels of rotational power/force ability at the hips and through the core. She focuses on building single leg strength, balance and forward movement potential for greater acceleration and deceleration ability.
The program is highlighted by non-traditional, but sound drills that are scalable to the athlete's size and strength. Massaro covers the specifics of sets, reps, time, volume, variety, progressions and regressions so you will know how to adapt her methods to every level of athlete you train in either small groups, big groups or team settings.
Pitchers Workout
The pitcher is the most important player on the field, and keeping them healthy and strong is a must. Through 10 exercises, Massaro shows you how to get your pitchers performing explosive moves while taking pressure off their shoulder to help prevent injury. Use the single leg squat and single leg ball slam to work on the motion of driving off of one leg, because pitchers do so much driving off one leg in the actual pitching motion. These exercises will help build your pitchers' core strength and increase functional muscle strength and balance.
Hitters Workout
Hitting for power doesn't always just come naturally. Batters need to use their legs and core efficiently, while also working on balance during a workout to prepare for the task of hitting. Massaro demonstrates seven hitting-specific exercises to increase the power in all of your hitters. These exercises focus on the rotational portion of the swing. Help prevent injury with your players by having right-handed batters strengthen not just their right side, but their left side (or vice versa) which often gets neglected, causing muscle imbalances.
Explosiveness Training
No matter what position they play, all softball players require explosiveness to be great at the sport. Both hitters and pitchers must move from a relatively still position and rapidly explode in a linear to rotational movement to either throw or hit the ball. Massaro provides nine exercises to increase explosiveness, which is important in a sport like softball that requires ballistic movement.
Massaro provides 26 total exercises to improve overall explosiveness and specialize your work with your pitchers and hitters. The more explosive your players are, the harder they can throw and the further they can hit the ball.
48 minutes. 2017.