Medicine Ball Exercises
Build Muscle to Make the Starting Lineup Next Baseball/Softball Season
Did low percentages or nagging injuries keep you out of the starting lineup last baseball or softball season? Assure your position on the diamond next spring with the following multi-joint, [...]
Basketball Med Ball Drills for Speed and Quickness
With basketball season on the horizon, high school and college players need to get moving on their preparation for try-outs. Incorporate these three basketball med ball drills into your current [...]
Medicine Ball Core Workout for Any Sport
Your weight room workouts have given you a killer set of muscles, so your game this season is on lock, right? Not so fast. If you're neglecting to train your [...]
Exercise of the Week: Med Ball Clean and Press
The STACK Exercise of the Week will help you improve your overall sports performance—including strength, speed, conditioning and flexibility. This week, we highlight the Med Ball Clean and Press, an [...]
Build Power With Partner Med Ball Drills
Power is the key to success in many sports. That's why so much performance training deals with explosiveness. Unfortunately, many weight room exercises that are supposed to build power don’t [...]
Prevent Injures With Softball and Baseball Core Training
Every time baseball or softball players swing a bat or throw a ball, they’re generating tremendous force in their lower body and transferring that force to their upper body via [...]
Top 5 Explosive Med Ball Exercises for Baseball Players
Developing explosive rotational power is critical for the two of the most valuable skills in baseball—bat speed and throwing power. Both of these movements require a powerful rotation of the [...]
Develop Power and Stability With An Intense Med Ball Core Circuit
As Erik Walden, Super Bowl Champion and Green Bay Packers starting linebacker, demonstrates in the video above, my Med Ball Core Circuit is intense. It addresses all of the core [...]
Exercise of the Week: Bench Press/Explosive Med Ball Press Circuit
Every Wednesday, STACK features an Exercise of the Week to help you improve your overall sports performance—including strength, speed, conditioning and flexibility. This week we highlight an Upper Body Circuit, [...]
Med Ball Lifts With Georgia Track & Field
Too many runners fear that strength training will add bulk, making them slower. But according to Katrin Koch, University of Georgia Women’s T&F strength and conditioning coach, strengthening your fast twitch [...]