Name: Playbook - Jordan Verdon - Stride Phase Workout 1
Uploaded: 2024-01-09T21:15:23.298Z
Duration: 60 min
Description: Stride Phase Workout 1

This workout is focused on the stride portion of your swing. Control the stride with your back leg and land soft. 

BEFORE YOU SWING: 
Always go to the warmup and med ball tab (if you have med balls) before swinging

- 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

- Put a bat or PVC in line with your toes 
- When striding towards the pitcher make sure you do not touch the bat or PVC 
- This is a stride phase drill for players who close themselves off during their swing and top spin too many balls on the ground

Stride closed constraint

- 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

- 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

- Out a hurdle or some other object right up against your toes so that if when you start to load if your knees go over your toes it will hip the hurdle 
- The goal is to create space by getting a vertical back shin and sitting your weight in the middle to heel of your foot rather than weight in your toes 
- This allows you to hold the ground longer without jumping forward at the ball and come out of posture early 
- Can so this on tee, flips, live BP

Hurdle Constraint Loading

- 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.

Stride Phase Workout 1

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