Name: Playbook - Jordan Verdon - Load Phase Workout 2
Uploaded: 2024-01-09T21:15:23.292Z
Duration: 60 min
Description: Load Phase Workout 2

This workout is focused on using your back leg to load the swing. You should feel like you glutes and hamstrings are the ones helping you move and not your knees and quads. 
Think about the weight in your foot to be in the middle or even the heel while doing all these drills rather than in your toes.

- Set up a foam roller, basketball, anything really that you can put on the outside portion of your knee. 
- Goes though your loading while keeping the object stuck between the wall and your knee. 
- The goal is to keep you knee in line with your toes when you load and your heel and foot anchored in the ground.

Constraint Loading

- Put a resistance band just above the knees
- Keep tension in the band as you stride forward without letting slack out of the band
- Focus on keeping your knee in line with your back foot as you stride forward. 
- Feel your glutes controlling this move

Banded Loading

- Only difference between this and banded loading is now you’ll swing after you get to your launch position. Keep tension in the band after your swing as well 
- Put a resistance band just above the knees
- Keep tension in the band as you stride forward without letting slack out of the band
- Focus on keeping your knee in line with your back foot as you stride forward. 
- Feel your glutes controlling this move

Banded Swings

- Start with front foot elevated in yoga block (or anything that elevates the front foot) 
- Pre set the load into the back hip
- Control the load forward without falling into the front leg

Yoga block loading

- Start with feet close together for easier balance 
- Lift front foot off the ground and feel the load into the back hip 
- Emphasize a small pause (1-2 seconds) with leg off the ground 
- Control the stride forward without crashing into front leg

Hover loading

- This is a striding phase drill 
- Focus is on using the back leg to control your front foot over any object while landing soft and swinging the foot down as you swing rather than putting the foot down early and swaying the hips (lunging/pushing at the ball)

Step Overs

- Controlled underhand flips are a great tool to add movement to the pitch in a controlled environment while working on new swing changes and feels. 
- At this point of the workout, I want you to try a couple (or all if you’re feeling up for it) of the tee drills you were working on on the first few round or two of flips. 
- After the feels and mechanics round, go to closer to your game swing and set up/load while keeping in mind the feels you just created in previous drills. 
- REMEMBER- the goal is to get better at game like swings. Don’t get too caught up on the drills and try and use them to blend into your game swing! 💪🏼

Underhand Flips

- Time to compete!! 
- Game like mentality
- Game like loading and approach
- GOAL- Hit doubles and low line drives while blending in the new swing mechanics or feels you’re working on.

Load Phase Workout 2

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