Rotational Power Without the Neck and Back Tax
Most youth strength programs are borrowed from football and quietly tax a hitter’s neck and low back. Here is what we train at 8th Day instead, and the one test every exercise has to pass.
Most youth strength programs are borrowed from football and quietly tax a hitter’s neck and low back. Here is what we train at 8th Day instead, and the one test every exercise has to pass.
Here is a swing I see every week. A kid squares up, loads his hands, and fires. The bat looks quick. The ball dies at the warning track, or worse, rolls over to short. He hits the cage, he takes his cuts, he works hard, and the power never shows up. So he grips it…