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@ChrisMartinLSU

Head S&C Coach - LSU Baseball 🐅 | Former Astros
Baton Rouge, LA linktr.ee/coachchrismart
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Let’s geaux! Very grateful to @LSUCoachJ and staff for the opportunity!

Time to get to work developing players and winning championships!
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Chris Martin, the former Houston Astros Minor League S&C Coordinator, has been named our Strength and Conditioning Coach!

#ThePowerhouse
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Mass and strength are highly correlated to swing speed in baseball hitters - very likely similar in golfers.

The problem wasn’t that Bryson gained weight - it was how he did it. He gained 40-50 pounds in a year as an adult. The reason he felt like shit is because he ate like shit, blindly eating everything in sight.

The takeaway here isn’t that weight gain as an athlete is unhealthy. It should be that there are correct ways to gain weight, specifically lean mass, which has to be gradual over time. 1-2lbs of true lean mass/month is attainable without layering on a bunch of fat on top of it.

That is where Bryson went wrong. Performance nutrition is very nuanced, so consult a Registered Dietician than operates in sport if you are an athlete looking to change your body and performance.

Mass is not the enemy. “Fast twitch” muscles can increase in size. If your sport involves hitting a ball with an implement
 the bigger and stronger you are (not infinitely), the more likely you are to have success in your sport. Don’t chase being an outlier unless you are positive you have outlier characteristics.
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Bryson DeChambeau admitted he was wrong about gaining weight to increase swing speed and lost 24 pounds in 30 days. 😳

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A good example here of methods before principles.

Your zone 2 work doesn’t have to be running. Bike, elliptical, stair climber, incline walk, rucking are all examples of other methods to achieve a zone 2 stimulus.

It also highlights the differentiation between energy system development (ESD) and conditioning. ESD is general to physiology, conditioning is task specific.

The way to condition to throw 100 pitches in an outing is through a gradual pitch count build up - this naturally occurs in almost all throwing programs. There’s a reason most pitchers stay around 75-80 pitches on opening day.

ESD supplies the underlying structural and physiological changes to support conditioning when the time comes. They are often used interchangeably, but are not the same.

For pitchers specifically, even 1-2 hours of zone 2 per week can have significant benefits with limited to no downside. It’s not fatigue inducing at that intensity or volume, and there is no interference effect - that is a lazy cop out.

Lifting with your HR always above 100 potentially erodes the training stimulus you are able to get from lifting itself. Simply put, you can’t lift heavy enough without sufficient rest. Lifting itself is a lever that moves the needle more early in a career than an MLB veteran, so Trevor’s case is very different from a high schooler.

TLDR: Running is only one method of zone 2 work. Doesn’t work for you? Don’t include it in training. Conditioning and energy system development are not the same. Both have a place in training. Turning lifting into ESD may dampen the adaptations of your lifting.
Trevor Bauer (ăƒˆăƒŹăƒăƒŒăƒ»ăƒă‚Šă‚ąăƒŒ) Verified account @BauerOutage Oct 16
Running is slowing your recovery — and most athletes never figure this out.

Your cardiovascular system matters for recovery. Higher VO2 max = faster recovery between sessions. That part is true.

But every time you run, you're pounding on your legs. You're adding mechanical stress to a body that's already trying to rebuild. You're stealing from your recovery to improve your cardio. That's a bad trade.

And here's the bigger problem: steady-state cardio isn't even what you do in a game. You don't cruise at a fixed pace. You spike. You peak. You recover. Then you spike again.

So why train in a way that doesn't match how you actually perform?

Here's what I do instead.

Throwing. Fifteen minutes of catch gets your heart rate swinging between 130 and 160. That's not warmup. That's your cardio for the day.

Then lift. Thirty minutes. Keep your heart rate above 100. The second it drops to 100, you pick up the weight again. You stay in that 100-130 range the whole session.

That's your recovery cardio. Built into work you were already doing.

No extra miles. No extra mechanical stress. No separate cardio block eating into your recovery.

You're already getting the stimulus. Stop adding more load on top of it.
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