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Glassboro Little League Strength and Conditioning. By: Nicholas Consoli. Introduction. This program is designed for young baseball athletes ages 8-12 This program will teach these young athletes proper strength and conditioning exercises
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Glassboro Little LeagueStrength and Conditioning By: Nicholas Consoli
Introduction • This program is designed for young baseball athletes ages 8-12 • This program will teach these young athletes proper strength and conditioning exercises • “promote, develop, supervise, and voluntarily assist in all lawful ways, the interest of those who will participate in Little League Baseball”
Background Information/Rationale • About one-third of children ages 8-12 who play baseball at Glassboro Little League understand the importance of warming up, stretching, and doing strength and conditioning exercises for preparation of games • many young athletes have experienced injuries during sporting events, which are related to lack of knowledge of preparing for events and actually doing these certain exercises
Background Information/Rationale • In article Risk of Serious Injury for Young BaseballPitchers, results show that injuries were 3.5 times more likely in young athletes who were pitching more than 100 innings in at least 1 calendar year, starting curveballs before age 13, and playing catcher for at least 3 years • limiting the number of innings pitched per year and being encouraged to play a variety of positions may reduce the risk of injury (Glenn S. Fleisig, 2010).
Background Information/Rationale • According to article Effects of a 4-Week Youth Baseball Conditioning Program on Throwing Velocity, a training group of thirty-four youth baseball players (ages 11-15), comprised of a sport specific warm-up, resistance training with elastic tubing, a throwing program, and stretching helped increase throwing velocity for these youth athletes significantly (from 24.1 to 28.4 ± 2.8 m·s) • These results show that the short-term 4-week baseball conditioning program was effective in increasing throwing velocity in youth baseball players.
Goals and Objectives • Goal 1 - Reduce occurrence of injury among young athletes ages 8-13 • Objective 1- All participants will engage in a trial strength and conditioning program for 2 weeks • Objective 2- Increase participant knowledge of importance of warm-up/cool-down/stretching by at least 10%. • Goal 2- Increase arm velocity/overall improvement • Objective 1- Participants will engage in strength and conditioning programs throughout athletic season 2 days per week. • Objective 2- At least 70% of participants will perform proper rotator cuff exercises before and after games.
Program Description • Daily procedures: • Warm-ups (stretching, can exercises, light throw) • Strength/Conditioning Exercises (light weight rotator exercises, agility drills, core exercises) • Live Play (light warm up throw, infield/outfield drills, situational plays including base running, hitting, 21 outs/game play • Cool down (light jog, stretching)
Theory • Social Cognitive Theory • Observational Learning • Self efficacy • Behavioral capability • Social Interaction
Evaluation Strategy • Process Evaluation- • Observations will be done throughout the program making sure I am teaching them proper skills, workouts, and staying on schedule • 5-point Likert scale survey, open ended questionnaires. • Interviewing instructors and selected participants
Evaluation Strategy • Impact Evaluation • Post-testing participants to demonstrate certain exercises/skills which have been taught. • Arm velocity trials (throwing multiple times under a radar gun) • 5 point Likert scale evaluating self efficacy and behavioral capability
Evaluation Strategy • Outcome Evaluation • One year follow up of program implementation • Arm velocity trials (throwing under radar) and compare results to before and during program • Self efficacy and behavioral capability of athletes ability to perform exercises
Marketing Plan • Glassboro Little League website with ad giving basic information while also posting flyers around facility • Other flyers will be placed at the Glassboro Municipal Building, local schools, and grocery stores.
Budget/Expenditures • Program Length – 7 months • Fee - $40/week • Staff - $1,000/client • Sponsor – Rawlings – 60% off equipment • Medicine balls - $360 • Exercise balls - $65 • 2 Buckets of baseballs - $200 • Bats - $300 • Gatorade jug - $90 • Radar gun - $110 • Paper for brochures, plays, flyers, exercises - $40 • Agility cones - $40 • Total – about $1200 • Grant - $10,000