Garrett Baker notes
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Bio
- Player development coordinator for Inspiration Academy (Bradenton, FL) (Summer of 2021)
- American International College pitching/recruiting coordinator, and assisted S&C (Fall of 2018)
- Westfield State University pitching and S&C (2017)
- Independent Baseball (empire league (NH), and Pecos league (AR))
- Undergraduate in Exercise science and Masters Degree in Sport and Exercise Psychology
Topics
- Starting with a breathing exercise and routine based warm up
- Meetings in small groups
- Skill emerges through my mental capacity
- Lets envision the best practice we possibly have!
- Check in with yourself and see if you are checking into thoughts in the past or future, and we need to get rid of them to have our best practice
- Signal lights - red, yellow, and green
- Green light I go
- Yellow light I need to be cautious, so be aware
- Red light I need to stop before I spin out of control
- Get rid of the red thoughts
- 4 box - inhale 4, exhale,
- Physical helps me wipe it away
- Final thought helps me get back to now and action
- Practice on the mound, and in the actual place
- Having the process in play and practicing it each day
- Same verbiage with hitting coach to discuss the mental skills
- The ability to bring yourself back to the moment will help be a better person and ballplayer
- Just notice the thought to bring yourself back to the moment
- If you are not locked into a drill, perform the mindfulness training to continue that skill
- Players need ownership in their own routines
- Need to have a routine of when things are not going to well
- Do something physical
- Take break
- Mental thought!
- Allowing freedom and learn themselves
- Movement challenge
- Somewhat based on assessment
- Encourage the body in a different way
- Blend a water bag with throwing to develop a pattern
- Assessment looking at indicators
- Back leg
- Front leg
- Glove arm
- Throw arm
- Rotation
- Capture trunk
- Trunk into arm
- Universal movements that are within everybody
- 2 days very individualize and 3 days of team workout
- Learning all movement patterns within team workout
- Guys given option for movement prep before game
- Savage pitching certification
- We can stabilize movements without thoughts
- Your body is interested it can use in multiple ways
- Mid week bullpen is all water bag bled throwing to targets
- 3 prescribed drills to pitching
- Basketball throw - treat the arm as an extension of the body (goalie throw)
- And blend with plyo/baseball
- “Success” is when the drill helps capture the movement
- The on field matters - and we will evaluate based on how they perform
- In game we do not want to have thoughts, and training within this environment by allowing the body to feel the force
- Encouraging the movement, by providing the outside force and stabilize to be in your best spot
- Create the best movers while ensuring the workload is there
- Your body adapts to the stress it gets put on it
- Movement madness Monday - movement challenges to be adaptable
- PVC Game
- Drop pvc pipe as low you can
- Challenging movement system
- Mimics sport
- Swipe up and swipe down and you have to either jump or squat down
- Minimal jerk, minimal joint motion, minimal processing
- Recovery movement circuit
- Walking in a squat
- Different lunge/squat in 15 yards
- Crawling
- The lizard
- Spine work
- Arm movements, low intensity easy movement
- Wrist clinics
- What matters is listening to the player because you can’t push the system that is already overloaded
- Have a framework to work off of
- Twitter and Instagram - @coachgbaker
- garrett.baker@inspirationacademy.com
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