Monthly Archives: November 2018
Why I Stopped Breathing
This article will be in reference to the book “The Oxygen Advantage” by Patrick McKeown. None of these are my ideas but rather a general summary of the book, followed by some practical applications for you at the end. While visiting Cal Dietz in August of 2018, he briefly mentioned that he would occasionally tape…
WWHS #7: What Does Being “Connected” Mean?
The word “connected” gets thrown around quite a bit in hitting circles. “This guy needs to be more connected”. “See, look at how connected he is”. The problem is, very few people actually know what “being connected” means. What should we look for? How do we tell if we are connected? Enter: Blast Motion Roughly…
WWHS #6: Don’t Step off the Bucket
If you play baseball, or used to play baseball, it’s very likely you’ve heard the phrase “don’t step in the bucket” more than one time in your life. Thankfully, players such as Khris Davis (if you don’t know what I mean, watch him swing one time and you’ll figure it out), have broken the negativity…
Chronotype and Learning/Skill Acquisition: How I’m Leveraging My Chronotype to Enhance Skill Acquisition
I should start out by saying that my knowledge on this topic comes straight from the book “The Power of When” by Micheal Breus. The premise of this book is that our bodies run on their own internal clocks, or our circadian rhythm, and by knowing which type of rhythm our body runs on we…