Zach Dechant
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Zach Dechant
@ZachDechant
Assistant Athletic Director of Sports Performance, TCU Baseball, CSCCa-SCCC, NSCA-CSCS, USA-W. Product of Ransom KS
- WANT TO ROTATE HARD?! Watch the front leg recoil back into the hips. This is the foundation for rotational power. The extension feeds the pelvis creating more torque and stability to rotate around!
00:00 - How an athlete handles the 20+ hours outside their sport is really what determines their success during the time spent training. Poor rest, nutrition, hydration can’t be overcome with just hard work.
- The weight room is the ultimate character revealer. Tells you everything you need to know about teammates quickly.
- Crawling is a priority in our pitchers warmups. Don’t just limit these to forward backward. Make them move all over! Proximal stability distal extensibility.
00:00 - A method we use to add variety to speed work are called rabbit and coyote races. The rabbit must react to the coyote in the back. Team sports requires reacting to visual stimuli so it’s never a bad thing to use the eyes to train the body. Creates a fun competitive environment.
00:00 - For all the starting pitchers yesterday that need to start the recovery process off on the right foot…w/ low intensity extensive work.
00:00 - The best “agility” money can buy. Added the L screens on the 2nd rep for some variability. It’s not training.....it’s FUN. #LTAD
00:00 - We don’t mind a good medball throw. But do they actually build “rotational power”??? Let me know what you think below or how you use them!!!
00:00 - It doesn’t matter how much you run. Pitching is a skill. Train the skill with gradual increases in volumes to go deeper in games.
- Arm care isn’t solely isolated band movements. Closed chain exercises for the upper body play a huge role!
00:00 - Yes you can and should train inseason. I still don’t get how this is questioned. Imagine two HS athletes. One lifts 3x a week for the 20 week inseason. The other doesn’t. Over 4 years of HS development the athlete that trained has had 240 more exposures. That seems significant!
- There’s a constant battle in my mind that I’m wrong about every single thing I do with our athletes. Am I the only one?
