Wednesday, January 24, 2007

To Infinite and Beyond !!

Earlier we were chatting about how the addition of three assistant coaches were going to help us in 2007...well I forgot about one. I'm ashamed I forgot about him because he does so much for the baseball program. Jeff Klein is a performance specialist with the group Infinite Sports Performance. Infinite is an elite sports training company that specializes in the enhancement of serious athletes and uses a group of special regiments that are designed to increase first step quickness, lateral mobility, explosiveness, and overall performance.

When Jeff first saw the baseball team two years ago, his exact comments were "This is the worst shape team I have ever seen." Today the baseball team is one of two teams on campus that uses Infinite all year round. The teams have been dubbed the "Hardest woking teams on campus." Jeff can now look at the team and see actual athletes. We refer to the transformation as being " INFINITIZED"

Your asking how does an Infinite regiment differ from most workouts? The pace and intensity... During a 45 minute workout your heartrate goes up and it never drops. The pace is crazy fast, you are constantly moving. Usually a certain station has two to three different moves so the only down time is walking to and from the stations. Ask a few of the guys what they thought of the workout when they first started? At the end of most workouts Jeff puts them through a very tough core routine. Usually consisting of a 2 minute bridge, 30 seconds of crunces, six inch scissors, 30 seconds of bicycles and then another timed bridge. Sound like fun? Throw in a Arby's Special (5 sets of 4 court length sprints in 5 minutes), a few 10 pound ball tosses, a full set of lunges with the ankle bands and some stability excerises.....you got yourself one heckuva a workout.

During the fall the guys went 7am - 8am, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays...But during the season we'll require them to attend just twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My offseason workout was 12 beers and 2 hours sleep.