Posted by: Dave (nytino20@aol.com) on Fri Feb 2 22:13:37 2007

the points that I liked in the article talk about exercises that increase bat speed and quickness and the muscle groups at the core.I experimented with such exercises and found using cable machines doing exercises mimicking the swing under a load enhanced bat speed but due to my tests using tee work I cannot account for enhanced bat quickness but I do believe that would have gotten faster also.

So what did you do?? Was it a free-range pulley machine?? Did you just do this recently or was this in the past??

I am looking to get into a workout to help develop some more explosiveness. I have been doing a lot of research on the subject and I came across with isometrics being the best at developing what you need for your muscles to become "fast". That is fast twitch fibers and more motor units. Isometrics has been scientifically proven to recruit over 5% more motor units and fast twitch fibers then any eccentric (lowering) and concentric (lifting) actions. Those would be any repetition action such as lifting a dumbell or even plyometrics. Basically anything that is not isometrics because isometrics is contracting your muscle(s) without lengthening and shortening them. You hold the contraction with full effort for 5-10 seconds. The negative drawback is it's only worked at a fixed angle but that's why you break down the motion into a bunch of different angles. Gettin sleepy so it's hard to really describe it all right now but check out these links if you are interested.

http://www.athleticquickness.com/page.asp?page_id=15
http://www.athleticquickness.com/page.asp?page_id=49
http://www.athleticquickness.com/page.asp?page_id=79
http://www.t-nation.com/findArticle.do?article=313iso2 (ignore the title, just read)

I highly suggest reading all of the ones from athleticquickness. Very good information on there to say the least.