
John Cissik
Website: http://cissik.com/blog

The Off-Season is Key to a Baseball Player's Success
The off-season is an essential time for a baseball player. It allows the athlete to address holes in their game, improve their skills, and lays the ph...
Use Your Backyard To Improve Baseball Skills
The backyard is a frequently overlooked location to improve the baseball skills of all ages of athletes. It doesn't require much equipment, and expens...
Power Training for Baseball: It's More Than Olympic Lifts
Baseball players need to be explosive and powerful to throw, hit, jump, run, and change directions. This is so important it has to consistently be add...
The Complete Athlete 1-Year Workout Plan: Speed and Agility Training
Speed and agility is important for success in sports. What follows is a sprogram that will develop a well-rounded athletie. This program is meant to...
Improve Your Vertical With This One-Week Jump Training Plan
The vertical jump is an important test in many sports. First, it has direct application to what happens in many sports. Jumping up for a rebound,...
Get Faster for Any Sport With This 12-Week Speed Workout
Properly done, a speed workout can make the difference between making the play and watching it happen. You need several qualities to be able to sprint...
4 Ways to Create a Positive Team Culture
Team culture defines who a team is and can have a real limiting factor on a team's success. Strength and conditioning is an important component of a...
How to Get Faster With Resisted Sprint Variations
Resisted sprints are used pretty extensively by strength and conditioning coaches to improve the first step explosiveness, acceleration, and maximum...
Why Jumping Rope is a Must for Athletes
The jump rope is an exercise that a lot of us spent a few days on in PE during elementary school and then forgot all about. But it is an extremely...
Simple Youth Baseball Drills for Infielders
Coaching baseball for young athletes can be an incredibly rewarding experience, but only if you know what you are doing. If you are unprepared, both t...