Baseball Player Goes from 72 MPH to 80 MPH in 4 Months!

Written by zach. Posted in Athlete Training, Edison, Manasquan, NJ Baseball Training, Success Stories, Training Videos, Underground Strength Camp, Workouts

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What an AWESOME Success Story by Chris Lee.

He trained for 4 months and gained 8 MPH of Velocity on his throwing.

“I feel on top of the world……”

“I always wanted Power & this year I feel Bigger….”

The Underground Strength Gym is located inside Full Count Baseball Academy in Middlesex, NJ.

For a FREE Trial & to Start Hitting Further, Throwing Faster & Feeling Confident & Ready, Click HERE.

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NJ Baseball Strength & Conditioning / Performance Training Now at Full Count Baseball

Written by zach. Posted in Announcements, Articles, Athlete Training, NJ Baseball Training, Nutrition, Training Videos, Underground Strength Camp, Workouts

We’re excited to announce our partnership with Full Count Baseball & Softball Academy in Middlesex, NJ.

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With the hectic schedules of athletes & parents, we have worked hard to create an opportunity for parents to take advantage of a full Baseball performance program under 1 roof.

The best Baseball players are NOT just highly skilled, but they are a cut above in their physical and mental preparation.

If you look back 10 + years ago, you rarely heard about Baseball players needing shoulder or Tommy John surgery.

Back then, many Baseball players played multiple sports which we highly encourage.

Back then, kids weren’t learning Baseball skills at such an advanced level nor were they playing so frequently. When a Baseball player learns to throw and hit harder, his / her body MUST be physically prepared for the work or an injury will be waiting for you around the corner.

Our training will focus on players in grades 6 and up.

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The Underground Strength Gym in our other locations has been working with middle school, high school and collegiate Baseball players since 2002 back when players would travel to my garage for specialized training.

With the numerous Baseball clubs at different times of the year, Baseball players are injuring themselves at rates greater than ever before.

And, with the repetitive nature of Baseball skills, many players are losing their athleticism which is slowing down your child’s overall sports performance.

To achieve your maximum potential requires the Baseball / Softball player to train the body and mind that supports and increases success on the field.

The goal of our Baseball Strength & Conditioning Program is to focus on the BIG picture:

– The baseball / softball coaches will teach the sport specific skills.

– We will build overall athleticism through a training program that BUILDS you into a better ball player. The training will NOT fatigue or take away from your Baseball skills.

– ALL training is age appropriate. We understand exactly what a middle school athlete needs at various ages as well as what each high school athlete needs at their various ages / stages of physical and mental development.

– Our training will develop greater joint & muscular strength to reduce chances of injury.

– The training will develop more speed & power that will transfer to hitting, throwing, running and agility on the field.

– The athlete will dramatically increase confidence both in sports AND in life.

– Nutrition Guidelines will be given to the parents and athletes to increase Baseball performance.

– Flexibility & Mobility will be address during each workout as well as with parents / baseball player education to create continuity from Baseball / Softball skills to lifestyle at home to training at The Underground.

– In a nut shell, training at The Underground Strength Gym combined with your Baseball Skills training, your child will get the advantage over the competition.

ALL athletes and parents are looking for an edge.

NOW is the time!

We’re excited to see you at Full Count Baseball & Softball Academy!

Sign Up for your FREE Trial HERE

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NJ Baseball Player Transformation & Success Story

Written by zach. Posted in Announcements, Athlete Training, NJ Baseball Training, NJ Fat Loss, Nutrition, Success Stories, Training Videos, Underground Strength Camp, Workouts

Here is the e mail Chris Lee sent me after finishing his final week of training before heading to Pa to play College Baseball:

Zach,

From The Meathead,

P.S. – In both pics I’m at 178 lbs. left side im at 32 % body fat in 2011. Right side I’m at 12%  body fat 

 

______________________

Chris has been by far one of THE MOST dedicated, hard working athletes we’ve ever worked with. Even during the In Season, when the majority of athetes STOP training, Chris trained 2 x week! He would show up even if he had 20 minutes to train.

He was breaking school records for JP Stevens Baseball and his dedication, hard work and mental toughness have payed off BIG time as he is now off to play College Baseball!

Here are some videos of Chris in training. You might look at them and say to yourself, “WOW! I could never do that!” This is the WRONG attitude.

As you can see, Chris did NOT start here as a strong athlete, he worked his ass off and BUILT himself into an outstanding athlete. He followed our nutrition guidelines and went above and beyond.

That is HOW champions are built!

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If you are ready to become a Champion you need to be committed, humble and coachable.

Starting with a negative attitude or excuses will never help.

Step up and GO for it! You CAN become a Champion if you have the commitment of Chris “The Meathead” Lee!

Live The Code

– Team Underground –

PS: E Mail us NOW to set Up Your Child’s FREE Intro Assessment: Click HERE

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NJ Athlete Training: Football, Baseball & Wrestling Workouts

Written by zach. Posted in Articles, Athlete Training, NJ Baseball Training, NJ Football Training, NJ Wrestling Training, Training Videos, Workouts

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We’ve got Baseball, Football & Wrestling athletes training together.

How is that possible?

Simple, NOT easy 🙂

The fallacies of sports specific training and other gimmicks are confusing many athletes, parents and sport coaches.

Because we train for all around athleticism, our workouts build up the athlete’s strengths, attack their weak areas and make you better every workout.

The “sports specific” training is the sport itself. The training athletes need builds strength, flexibility, mobility, speed, power and confidence.

The mistake is to think each athlete can or can’t do all exercises.

During the In season is when the sport gets the changes to avoid overuse injuries but during the off season, we attack your weak areas and build you UP.

The Russian Kettlebells develop speed, athleticism, coordination, overall strength and mental toughness.

The Kettlebells are just 1 tool we use in a tool box.

These athletes are at the top of their game by training to become better.

The training they’re experiencing at The Underground Strength Gym compared to what their friends are following: laying on benches, machines, half reps, poor technique, etc leads to injury and NO results.

Ya gotta want it – once you want it and get committed, GREAT things happen!

See you at The Underground!

Sign up for your trial workout below

In Strength,

– Team Underground –

FREE Trail at The Underground Strength Gym HERE

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NJ Baseball Strength: 3 Ways To Improve Bat Speed

Written by zach. Posted in Articles, Athlete Training, Edison, Manasquan, NJ Baseball Training, Training Videos, Underground Strength Camp, Workouts

Every baseball player wants to improve bat speed and reasonably so as bat Speed is one the major keys to hitting success.

Here are the 3 ways to improve bat speed

1-Improve Lower Body Strength

Lower body strength is paramount for baseball players because it is their foundation. Without a strong and powerful lower body you will not be able to generate the force needed to hit the baseball with power. Think about your legs as your horsepower. The more horsepower you have, the more potential you have to hit the ball further.

Improving lower body strength does not come from machine based training or doing exercises on BOSU balls and other gimmicks. If you want to build a solid foundation of strength in the lower body you have to lift weights.

Here Are 4 Excellent Lower Body Exercises For Baseball Players:

1. Front Squats
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2. Deadlifts

3. Bilateral & Unilateral Loaded Glute Bridges

4. Unilateral Leg Exercises (Lunges, split squats, step-ups)

2-Improve Hip Internal Rotation

In order to improve bat speed, special strength exercises should be used by baseball players. Some of the best special strength exercises for baseball players include rotational medicine ball throws. These are a great builder of bat speed because the velocity of the exercise and the movement of the exercise closely mimic the hitting motion.

Check out this video below to see how you can improve bat speed with special strength exercises…

3-Strengthen your Core

Any finally…Every baseball players favorite term to throw around “core strength”. Improve core strength is important for baseball players because the core helps transfers the power generated from the lower body to the upper body and project onto the baseball.

If you have a weak and unstable core, there will be a leakage of power and not all the power generated from the legs will be effectively transferred. If you are doing exercises like Russian Twists, side bends and sit-ups you are missing the boat on core training.

Here Are Awesome Core Exercises For Baseball Players:

1. Pallof Press

2. Single Arm Carry

3. Hanging Knee Raise

4. Body Saws

Get The Edge In Your Baseball Performance Before The Competition Does

The Underground Strength Gym Is Inside Full Count Baseball Academy HERE

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3 Ways To Impress Your Baseball Coach

Written by zach. Posted in NJ Baseball Training, Uncategorized

What have you done lately to impress your coach?

I don’t know about you but where I am from, too many baseball players make excuses..

“I’m not playing because…”

“My coach is an idiot”

“I never had a chance…”

“I can’t get into a grove because I don’t play enough”

“My coach plays favorites” on and on and on…

Enough with the excuses…If you want to impress your coaches, you have to EARN IT.

Here are 3 ways to impress your coach

 

1) Change your ATTITUDE

Show up early to every practice and be the last one to leave.  Never show up your coach or teammateand only focus on the present and the future. Don’t’ worry about striking out last game or making an error. That’s in the past, there is nothing you can do about it!

2-Always HUSTLE

This means busting your butt down the line on routine ground balls, fly balls and in between innings. LEAD BY EXAMPLE

 3-Outwork EVERYBODY

When it comes to the game of baseball, there are not many things you can control BUT the one thing you can control 100% of the time is your HUSTLE, WORK EHTIC & your ATTITUDE.

P.S Do you want an edge on the baseball diamond? Sign up for the Underground Baseball Training Camp. Space is limited to the first 12 baseball players who take action. Click here to sign up now.

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How To Improve Bat Speed

Written by zach. Posted in NJ Baseball Training

Every baseball player wants to improve bat speed and reasonably so, bat Speed is one the major keys to hitting success.

Here are the 3 ways to improve bat speed

1-Improve Lower Body Strength

Lower body strength is paramount for baseball players because it is their foundation. Without a strong and powerful lower body you will not be able to generate the force needed to hit the baseball with power. Think about your legs as your horsepower. The more horsepower you have, the more potential you have to hit the ball further.

Improving lower body strength does not come from machine based training or doing exercises on BOSU balls and other gimmicks. If you want to build a solid foundation of strength in the lower body you have to lift weights.

Here Are 4 Excellent Lower Body Exercises For Baseball Players:

1. Front Squats

2. Deadlifts

3. Bilateral & Unilateral Loaded Glute Bridges

4. Unilateral Leg Exercises (Lunges, split squats, step-ups)

2-Improve Hip Internal Rotation

In order to improve bat speed, special strength exercises should be used by baseball players. Some of the best special strength exercises for baseball players include rotational medicine ball throws. These are a great builder of bat speed because the velocity of the exercise and the movement of the exercise closely mimic the hitting motion.

Check out this video below to see how you can improve bat speed with special strength exercises…

3-Strengthen your Core

Any finally…Every baseball players favorite term to throw around “core strength”. Improve core strength is important for baseball players because the core helps transfers the power generated from the lower body to the upper body and project onto the baseball.

If you have a weak and unstable core, there will be a leakage of power and not all the power generated from the legs will be effectively transferred. If you are doing exercises like Russian Twists, side bends and sit-ups you are missing the boat on core training.

Here Are Awesome Core Exercises For Baseball Players:

1. Pallof Press

2. Single Arm Carry

3. Hanging Knee Raise

4. Body Saws

Do you want to dominate on the baseball dominate? Sign up right now for The Underground Baseball Training Camp 

P.S We are limiting signups to the first 12 baseball players who take action. Sign up now

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Power Training for NJ Athletes

Written by zach. Posted in Athlete Training, NJ Baseball Training, NJ Football Training, Training Videos

Before we move on to what goes down inside The Underground Strength Gym, let me preface ALL of that “Stuff” so the parents and athletes watching our videos can see my friend, Ultimate Warrior, speak about what it takes to succeed. We think the same and that just might be TOO much for most of you. Too intense, expectations too high…..

If you don’t fit this mold and understand that success takes WORK, you do NOT belong here…..

We’ve got NO room for lazy athletes, rude parents or anyone who makes and / or enables excuses. Excuses are for those who cave in to the slightest pressure. At The Underground, you learn to thrive under pressure….

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Athletes need specialized training, that’s a fact. But… before we get specialized, we need plenty of “generalized” work.

Why skinny 100 lb kids are being told by Coaches to do a power clean is beyond me…. “JUMP with the weight” they say, but…. the kid is too weak to JUMP, let alone perform a safe and proper power clean.

Once our athletes develop a level of general physical preparation we can begin specializing and adding speed / explosive power work to their training. But, TOO much speed work and we now move from Quality to quantity and you are NO longer building speed.

It’s dangerous when you have a little bit of knowledge and just throw it on the wall and hope it sticks. I feel bad for athletes who are forced to train under a coach who wants to make an extra buck “covering the weight room”. These kids get ONE shot to make it right, they deserve to learn from experts.

Before I continue I’d like to thank ALL the dumb ass, ego driven coaches who tell their strongest and fastest athletes to train LESS at The Underground when we helped them get to the top…. I own a Football but you don’t see me trying to start my own Football team, catch my drift?

Check out some speed and explosive work we’ve built our athletes up to doing, this is a Football player working side by side with a Baseball player…

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To get stronger, faster, more explosive and mentally tougher than your competition, apply for membership by going to our home page:

1) Watch entire video on our “rules & expectations” to see if you qualify for membership

2) Fill out free trial workout form and await response

NOTE – NOT  ALL Applicants are accepted after their trial. Serious inquiries ONLY

Best,

-Team Underground-

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NJ Baseball Strength, Speed & Power Seminar!

Written by zach. Posted in Announcements, Seminars

Time for You to Stop Sitting the Bench & Start Getting

the Attention You Want from College Baseball

Recruits!

Learn the Unconventional Baseball Training Secrets to Help You Throw

Faster, Run Faster & Hit Further.

Watch this video…..

Dear Serious Baseball Coach, Supportive Parent & Motivated Player,

This seminar is not your typical baseball strength & power seminar where we preach to you about “working your core” and “strengthening your rotator cuff”.

In fact, this seminar is as unconventional as they get. The methods you’re going to learn have been tested in a “Real World Lab”, aka, The Underground Strength Gym. Countless high school and collegiate baseball players have experienced this training system that goes against the norm.

There are no gimmicks or fads or “catch phrases” for us to use. Instead, you’ll learn how to take these methods and apply them to your own training so you too can get the edge over your competition. Most baseball players practice their skill work in the off season. A small few engage in strength and power training, but, unfortunately, their methods don’t produce significant results.

After attending The Underground Baseball Training Seminar you will be able to apply these time tested, results proven, powerful Baseball training methods to skyrocket your success on the Baseball field. It’s time to stop being frustrated sitting on the bench or losing games because you’re too slow, not strong or powerful enough and, plain and simple, not confident enough. Time to make a change.

– Learn the warm up that will both physically AND mentally prepare you to play and train at your best

– Learn the critical prehab / rehab techniques that will keep you healthy year round as well as allowing your body to perform to it’s Max potential

– Specific upper body, lower body and full body exercises that baseball players must use to improve their hitting and throwing power, their speed and athleticism

– How to tailor your Baseball training program according to your position to give you the best training effect, which exercises you should avoid and which exercises you should use.

– Introductory programs for the incoming high school Baseball player. Most Coaches are making their Baseball players weaker, slower and more susceptible to injury. Learn how to train the RIGHT way

– What is the most effective “conditioning” methods for Baseball Players and why most Coaches are doing SERIOUS damage and injustice to their players by making them run long distances

– Simple recovery methods to help Baseball players recover faster and playing at their max potential throughout the entire season while the competition is burned out both physically and mentally

– Plus TONS more!

Coach Megz will have Open QnA time at the end of the seminar as well as plenty of time for exchange throughout the seminar. The seminar is being limited to 12 people Max so we can give you the best attention and make this seminar extremely powerful for you!

Who is this seminar for?

This seminar is a great opportunity for High School & College Baseball Coaches, Strength Coaches, Parents of Baseball Players and Baseball Players who want to invest in themselves and learn how to train the most effective way to help them reach their true potential! We are offering a discount for the father / son or the coaches who want to learn together.

The Details are:

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NJ Baseball Training

Written by zach. Posted in Articles, Athlete Training, Training Videos, Workouts

Bishop Ahr Baseball players and a Bishop Ahr wrestler go through some bodyweight training and conditioning at The Underground Strength Gym in Edison, NJ.

Check it out below….

Even during the In Season our athletes train at least once a week.

Why would a serious athlete stop eating healthy when their season begins?

It’s the same difference: if something is important, you do it YEAR round.

Our programs are modified in season, post season as well as pre season.

How serious are YOU?

Lead from the FRONT.

–Z–

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