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Martin's Restaurants
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Martin's Restaurants offers great food and believes "Fresh Tastes Best". Martin's have locations all over the Metro Atlanta area. Stop by for Breakfest or lunch. You'll want to go back time and time again. Tell the the Staff at GBN sent you!
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TOTAL HUMAN ELEVATION
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Ken Coward is a Strength and Conditioning Coach with the NY Mets. Ken resides in Atlanta, GA. He is the owner of TOTAL HUMAN ELEVATION, a personal training website which specializes in sport specific and fitness program design.
Ken Coward is a graduate of Radford University, in Radford VA, where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Physical Education and a Minor in Psychology. He also has a Masters Degree from Cal U of Pennsylvania in Exercise Science. Kenny is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, a Performance Enhancement Specialist through The National Academy of Sports Medicine and a Level 1 United States Weightlifting Club Coach through the United States Weightlifting Association. As a personal trainer he has worked with athletes from the high school to professional level.
Kenny works as a Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for the New York Mets organization. He served as an intern at Georgia Tech in 1999 & 2000 in the strength and conditioning department and has worked with the men's basketball team under Scott McDonald. In Virginia, Ken was a strength and conditioning consultant to Virginia Commonwealth University's baseball team and he is currently working on his Masters in Performance Enhancement and Injury Prevention and will complete his degree this December.
Kennys specializes in core, functional, pre-hab, (training to prevent injuries), sport specific, balance and stability training as well as weight loss and general fitness. His philosophy is keeping it simple, working hard and dedicating yourself to get the results youre looking for
The following is Ken's take on how baseball conditioning should be done.
TRAIN HARD OR TRAIN SMART?
BY KEN COWARD
I remember it like yesterday. I was invited to perform a workout for a High School Baseball Team in metro Atlanta GA. I did some SAQ work (speed, agility, quickness), position specific footwork drills and I ended with traditional baseball conditioning. The conditioning was poles, which is running from foul pole to foul pole within a predetermined time. The time frame was 15 min for conditioning and 15 min for the SAQ work, I considered that a good day. However; the coaches and parents were not happy at all. They wanted more running. I asked them why and they said, They just need to run until they cant run anymore.
This is the mindset that us strength coaches are trying to change. Are we training baseball players or distant runners? Baseball is a sport, which is anaerobic by nature (without oxygen). Baseball requires short to moderate bouts of explosive movements. Doesnt it make sense for our conditioning to be short to moderate in duration?
Endurance is a factor with baseball conditioning; this is how we establish a conditioning base. However, running miles upon miles isnt necessary. A base can be established with long sprints and monitoring rest between sprints. A typical workout is as follows.
1. Baseball skill work (hitting, throwing, fielding)
2. Conditioning (long sprints, poles, gassers, baserunning)
3. Core routine
4. Stretch for cool down
This is a typical off season workout lasting about 1 1/2 to 2 hours 3xweek. When you keep the player moving and monitor the rest time, you are well on your to creating a baseball specific
endurance level. The remaining days (e.g. Tuesday, Thursday)
Consist of SAQ work, along with the baseball skills work, core routine and cool down. We now have a typical off-season baseball-conditioning program. The next article will discuss in season programming which can get tricky with games and travel.
kc833@yahoo.com
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JAKS Finer Things
JAKS Finer Things
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JAKS Finer Things is an Internet based retail business. JAKS offers Native American jewelry, artifacts, collectibles and much more. JAKS has two sites, one on EBay as well as the main site at www.jaksfinerthings.com
jaksfinerthings@bellsouth.net
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Misty River Mercantile
Misty River Mercantile
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Misty River Mercantile provides Civil War era Clothing and camp products such as storage boxes. Lots of great stuff from the 1860's.
mistyrivermail@bellsouth.net
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