What types of exercises can increase bat speed for a baseball player?

Answer 1

Streches With Arms , Gymnastics etc...

Answer 2

You can do a number of things, all of which have been proven to work.

First, swing a weighted bat 25-30 times a day. Dont just swing it around. Actually take your swing. Thats why swinging two or three bats at a time doesn't help. It may increase your overall strength but it wont increase the strength of the exact muscles and tendons used during your swing. So line up, pretend a pitch is coming, and take a ferocious but mechanically perfect swing.

Along with this, when you are taking batting practice, use a wooden bat. These days a good wood can go fro $40-60. If you take, for example, 8 rounds of 20 swings a day, take half of them with a wood bat. Or all of them if you want, but make sure if you still play in a metal bat league that you take swings with metal because your timing will get messed up if you only swing wood.

Thirdly, work out your forearms. Read the newspaper every day (this will be good and make your parents happy) then crush each individual page into a ball with your hand. Do this for both arms. There are a number of forearm exercises.

Lastly, improve your core!!! This could be the most important, although all of these are important. Core strength is the most ignored but most important aspect of baseball. Bat speed is generated yes by the arms, but also the torque of your midsection coming through the zone. Build up your core muscles (if you dont know what the core is, it is your abs, lower back, and hips- you can look up exercises for this area) to help increase the speed and power that your bat comes through the zone with.

While this answer might be long it actually shouldn't be that much each day. I understand if you can't take BP each day, but you can do the other three things in an hour or less.

Answer 3

Repetition,Swing the bat everyday get a couple of bats,perferably a heavy one and the one you will use during the season.Swing in front of a mirror,thats what Pete Rose did so he would swing the same way left or right handed

Answer 4

Repetative swinging with a baseball trainer like the baseball batting machine here. helps build muscle memory and builds strenghth

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Answer 5

Do some kind of exercise with your forearms and wrists. A lot of your bat speed comes from them. Your power would come from your lower body such as waist, hips, and legs.

Answer 6

I've heard of players who swing a leaded bat under water to improve their swing. Don't know if it works or not, though.

Answer 7

in case you swing with a heavier bat than what you commonly use in the previous the sport or in the previous you bat that facilitates alot. yet another element you ought to do became into swing the bat with a doughnut weight or a sleeve weight. you additionally can use the previous-shaped technique of swinging 2 or 3 bats at a time to make your primary bat sense lighter.* * All of those make your bat sense lighter once you swing devoid of them

Answer 8

i would mostly want to work on making your forearms, hips, abs, and legs stronger. Also work on your stance/swing their is all kind of teaching tools out their that can show you how to improve your whole batting stance and swing.

Answer 9

Use a medicine ball. swing back a forth with your arms stretched out. Be careful not to swing to hard because it could injure your back. Also work on your forearms and your footwork (weight transfer).

Answer 10

once someone told me to hit a flat or pumped up basketball over and over and try to hit it as far as you can.