Characteristics Of Sports: Strength And Conditioning In Sports

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Strength and conditioning of an athlete could be considered and art and science. It will require a vast knowledge of the sport, activities during practices and time management within the time frame of off-season, pre-season, in-season, and post-season. Baseball is one of sport that that will require most planning and management due to the intense schedule during the season. On the collegiate level, baseball season is stipulated to last for 16 weeks, plus playoff. During this time, teams will usually play one game during the week, and three games between Friday and Saturday.
The periodization of baseball should be focus on the improvement of the anaerobic energy systems. It is believed that during a baseball game 80% of the energy come from …show more content…

First, during the off-season baseball, players should be encouraged to improve the aerobic training to maintain the body weight, and avoid the increment of body fat and muscle atrophy; obviously, they will need to perform some light sport related activities such as hitting, base running, light bullpen sessions, and defensive drills to maintain the skills and abilities levels.
Pre-season for collegiate level last around 16 weeks until the beginning of the season, during this time the baseball teams will have a some limitation for the hours of practice on the field. From my point of view, the 16 week of practices should subdivided in 4 cycles of 4 weeks each, which will allow the adjustment of the training on the aspect of intensity, amount of resistant and repetitions, and frequency. For the first 4 weeks of pre-season should be focus for the increment of muscular mass, and power, focusing the training on the eccentric contraction with high …show more content…

Due to the baseball schedule and the amount of games during the weeks, baseball players should be encouraged for training twice or three times per week. Session should consist of low resistance and high repetitions between 3 to 5 sets, and it could last between 15 to 30 minutes. This setting will allow the athlete some days of rest during the week for recovery, and keep the high performance during the

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