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"Guest Author" Articles

"Pitching Inside With Confidence" by Dan Gazaway, the Pitching Academy

Hitting/Bat Speed

• Bat Speed: What Should Yours Be?

Pitching/Throwing Velocity

• Training For The Fastest Movement In ALL of Sports

• An Excellent Long Toss Program

• Where Throwing Velocity REALLY Comes From

• Weighted Ball Training: How it Works and Why Ball Players Should Use This Training Method

• Straight Answers to Tough Questions about
  Training with Weighted Baseballs

• Insights Into the Workout Programs of Major League Players: Nolan Ryan

• Cold-Weather, Off-Season Throwing

• ASMI Pitch Count Guidelines

Strength & Conditioning

• Ballplayers, Pitchers, and Swimming for Conditioning:
  Yes or No?

• The Physiological Basis for Conditioning Baseball and Softball Players, Part 2: Training the Arm

• Cheating, Gamesmanship, & Performance Enhancement

• The Physiological Basis for Conditioning Baseball and Softball Players, Part 1. Training the Body

• Insights Into the Workout Programs of Major League Players: Nolan Ryan

• Weighted Ball Training: How it Works and Why Ball Players Should Use This Training Method

• Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Training with Weighted Baseballs

• Ball Players and the Bench Press: Yes or No?

• Integrating Conditioning into a Baseball or Softball Practice Session

• Four Little-Known Baseball/Softball Training Secrets, Revealed At Last, PART 4

• Four Little-Known Baseball/Softball Training Secrets, Revealed At Last, PART 3

• Four Little-Known Baseball/Softball Training Secrets, Revealed At Last, PART 2

• Four Little-Known Baseball/Softball Training Secrets, Revealed At Last, PART 1

Speed Development

• Ball Players: Want More Speed? Minimize The Use of Aerobic Activities In Your Conditioning'

• Four Little-Known Baseball/Softball Training Secrets, Revealed At Last, PART 2:  Train for Speed

Nutrition & Supplements For Ballplayers

• Ball Players & Creatine - Yes or No?

• Cheating, Gamesmanship, &  Performance Enhancement

• Steroids, Diet, & Supplements For Performance Enhancement

• Amino Acids vs. Protein Powders

• Recipe For A Better Energy Drink

Miscellaneous

• Summer Ball, Fall Ball & Related Considerations

• A Baseball Strength Coach's Take on the Mitchell Report

• The 2007 College World Series: A Few Details You May Not Have Considered 

• Fly Ball Communication System

• Has The Time Come For A MLB Combine?

• Why MLB Is Reluctant To Change

• The Sham That Is The Little League World Series, 2006 Edition  

• Good Baseball Jokes & Stories

• Random Notes & News 3/16/06

• Just For Fun: Over-The-Line

• Off-Season: Skills Before Drills

• Are We Playing Too Much? Sharpening The Saw

• Training The Multi-Sport Athlete

• Measuring Performance

Baseball Fit/The DH/Steve Zawrotny in the News

• Steve Zawrotny Selected As Speaker at the 21st European Baseball Coaches Clinic in the Netherlands

• TheHeavyBall(TM) Press Release

• Ringor Baseball Showcase Series Adds Baseball Fit Assessments 

• The DH featured on KETV - Omaha, Nebraska

• Omaha World Herald Newspaper

• ABCA Award Press Release

• Collegiate Baseball

• MSNBC

• BIG Z Training Bat Press Release

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