One of our favorite tools for sweet spot awareness. You can swing this off the tee, front toss, even live if you're brave enough! Can hit softballs and baseballs, truly one of the hitting tools we could not recommend more! Check it out with this link👇 https://amzn.to/4wJMPqD

This tracker is designed to help parents and athletes measure REAL offensive development — not just outcomes. Batting average can fluctuate a ton in small sample sizes, especially in our sport. But these 3 stats tell us much more about what is ACTUALLY happening underneath the surface: ⚡️ Hard Hit Ball %How consistently your athlete is creating quality contact. ⚡️ Two-Strike %How often your athlete is getting into two-strike counts during plate appearances. ⚡️ Hard Hits With Two Strikes %How often your athlete is STILL producing quality contact under pressure. This is important because elite hitters aren’t perfect hitters… They’re adjustable hitters. The goal of this tracker is to help athletes: ✔️ understand their tendencies ✔️ learn how to compete deeper into counts ✔️ focus on process over emotion ✔️ measure development objectively over time A few important notes: • A two-strike PA counts anytime the hitter reaches two strikes — even if they walk. • A two-strike AB only counts if it becomes an official at-bat. • Use your best judgment on “hard hit balls,” just stay consistent game to game. I highly recommend filling this out immediately after games while everything is still fresh OR have a parent keep these stats during the game. DOWNLOAD THE 10 GAME STAT TRACKER HERE

I hear coaches cue hitters to “keep their bat flat” at contact all the time… but that’s usually what causes the barrel to cut across the ball instead of working through it. Good hitters keep tilt and posture. Your vertical bat angle should generally work parallel with your shoulder angle and perpendicular to your spine angle. Your body is rotating on a tilted axis, so the barrel should organize around that — not fight against it. Higher pitches usually need a flatter bat angle, while lower pitches need more vertical bat angle. The best hitters adjust naturally without losing posture or connection. When you maintain tilt, a few really important things happen: • the barrel stays in the zone longer • the bat can deliver a more direct blow to the back of the ball instead of a glancing strike (aka staying 'inside' the ball) • and your hands stay connected to the back shoulder instead of pushing away and disconnecting Flat shoulders and a flat barrel usually LOOK powerful, but they often kill adjustability and make the swing work around the ball too early. The swing isn’t supposed to be flat. It’s supposed to be connected, efficient, and on plane.

We have been so thrilled with the response to launching this training academy. We want to offer one of our premium courses for FREEEEEEE! Advanced Hitting - Load School is now available under the classroom tab. This is one of our favorite courses as it works on one of the most misunderstood parts of the swing. Don't forget to post your progress on the Players at Work Community page! Let's work.

We love the over/under loading approach to bat speed training! Bat speed doesn't come from your hands (hate to break it to you if this is your first time hearing it), but from how fast your body can rotate. Rotation speed has two components: 1) Explosive Strength: how much force your muscles can produce --> overload training 2) Neuromuscular speed: how fast your body can fire --> underload training To do over/underload training you'll need two different bats, you can hit with them or just do dry swings, both will accomplish the same goal. Try and take 30 swings with each bat in each training session at max effort. (make sure to get warmed up before) Overload: we love a wood bat that is 5-7 oz heavier than your game bat (https://amzn.to/4taUQTm or https://amzn.to/3Q332X7) Underload: either a wiffle ball bat OR a PVC pipe cut to size with a grip taped on, make sure to hit either wiffle balls or squishy balls (grip: https://amzn.to/4cisDnH) Train with this protocol 3-4x per week for 2 months and watch your bat speed skyrocket!