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What to work on during the off-season
This entry was posted on Friday, November 07, 2008 8:19 AM and is filed under Coaching.
Right now, as I write this, I am sitting in a hotel room in Minnesota — and it's snowing! The off-season has definitely come to the North. Stacie Mahoe of AllAboutFastpitch, be thankful you live in Hawaii!
Of course, that means those of us up here will be moving inside. Fastpitch softball has without a doubt become a 12 month sport (like pretty much all the others), so the question comes what do we work on now?
That's a question that has also been on the mind of Marc Dagenais, one of the best softball-specific peak performance trainers in North America, and probably the world. Given what he does for a living, you'd think that he would say conditioning tops the list. But since he's also a coach, he has a somewhat different perspective on it.
Want to know what Marc says are the priorities — and what percentage of your time you should spend on them? Check out this post on his blog. It's good advice
Ken Krause has been coaching girls fastpitch softball for 15 years. Some may know him as a contributing columnist to Softball Magazine, where he writes Krause's Korner -- a regular column sponsored
by Louisville Slugger. Ken is also the editor of Marc Dagenais' "No BS Softball Performance Newsletter." He is currently a Two Star Master Coach with the National Fastpitch Coaches Association
(NFCA), and is certified by both the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) and American Sports Education Program (ASEP). Ken coaches the Lake County Glory 14U team and is a private instructor
specializing in pitchers, hitters, and catchers. He is Head Softball Pitching Instructor at North Shore Baseball Academy in Libertyville, IL and teaches at Pro Player Consultants in McHenry, IL.
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