Rock talks with the head of strength & conditioning for the entire Houston Astros organization.
TIME STAMPS
1:30 Strength & Conditioning Coach Nick Shedd & the teams he oversees for the Houston Astros
5:00 The fundamental go-to lifts for baseball
7:00 Loading the rotational athlete without putting compressive forces on the spine
11:00 Proper programming of corrective movements and asymmetric issues
16:30 Don’t believe the hype
19:00 How does gait & foot mechanics come into play
21:30 Taking powerlifting, Olympic lifting, and bodybuilding and transforming it into baseball
25:00 Unilateral vs bilateral training
27:30 Pitch counts and an imperfect system
30:00 Performance monitoring and movement screening
35:00 Goals for the season and the flat hierarchy of the Astros
37:30 Looking more into nutritional support for the Houston Astros
