Strength and Conditioning Programs: Crossfit for Baseball?

Strength and Conditioning Programs: Crossfit for Baseball?

Written on September 14, 2009 at 7:25 pm, by Eric Cressey

I’ve received a lot of emails just recently (as well as some in-person questions) asking me what I think of Crossfit for strength and conditioning programs with baseball players and, more specifically, pitchers.

Let me preface this email with a few qualifying statements.  First, the only exercise “system” with which I agree wholeheartedly is my own.  Cressey Performance programming may be similar in some respects to those of everyone from Mike Boyle, to Louis Simmons, to Ron Wolforth, to the Crossfit folks – but taken as a whole, it’s entirely unique to me.  In other words, I will never agree completely with anyone (just ask my wife!).

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