There are many different ways to improve your hitting, and of course different players will respond to different techniques. Different players will also have different goals for their hitting, whether they are trying to increase their power, learn to hit to the opposite field or anything else.
Some things hold true regardless of your intentions however. All great hitters do the same things – regardless of how it may look to the naked eye.
Learning or relearning some of the fundamentals designed to produce fast, powerful and sharp swings will make anyone a better hitter.
How to improve your hitting
One of the most important things you have to realize right from the beginning is that hitting the baseball is far more than just swinging your arms.
It's also far more cohesive than the separate, disjoint movements of several different areas of your body.
Your baseball swing is a compound movement, synching up various parts of your body all at once. The better you are at creating that rhythm between all areas of your body, the better your swing is ultimately going to be.
The body MUST be able to function as one synergistic unit. If you are too mechanical, you will not even come close to your potential.
Think of your arms bringing the bat through the strike zone as the final movement in a total chain reaction.
You get the chain going by assuming the proper stance & then generating force from within.
It's only after this rotation that the bat moves, and all you are really doing is unleashing the chain reaction that was started several movements ago.
There are a couple of different forces at work here. For example, there is the rotational velocity and rotational power that you generate through your core and hips.
There are also the ground reaction forces you create by driving into the ground to unleash your swing. More than anything you actually do with your arms, these two areas of your swing, when honed properly, will add immense speed and power to your baseball hitting.
If you are unsure about how to improve your hitting, the good news is that all of these various components can be trained of course. The first step in the process is of course learning about these different forces and seeing how they are applied.
Taking a few hundred swings at a batting cage will certainly help teach you the muscle memory you need to make use of each piece of the puzzle.
However you can add more strength to your muscles by training in the gym to target the specific areas that will help with your swing. There are various exercises that you can perform with a medicine ball & free weights.
One of the best of these is the base stance medicine ball wall throw. This does a great job at mimicking what you will need to do when you generate power through your swing. Stand perpendicular to a wall (don't perform this on a drywall) in your base stance, with your arms extended in front of you holding a medicine ball with both hands.
Rotate your shoulders to the right, raising the medicine ball to head level. Drive your right foot into the ground, and then explosively rotate your hips towards the wall. Bring your body around following this rotation, and throw the ball with both hands into the wall. Catch it on the rebound and repeat the movement several times, then switch sides and do the same.
This is just one of many exercises that you can perform if you are wondering how to improve your hitting, but it may be the single most effective that you can deploy to help you master the concepts of rotational power and ground reaction forces. Plus, by training with a medicine ball, you will be building strength, stamina and power in your core muscles that you will be using when you actually swing the bat. The end result: quicker to and through the strike zone and more power in your swing.
Regardless of your baseball hitting goals, learning these fundamentals and honing the entire chain reaction of the swing will make you a superior hitter. You will swing the bat with more speed, power and precision and you will see much more success at the plate. Remember, your arms are only helping you to unleash all of the power that you wind up through your core, hips and legs.
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