Talk on Pitchers and How to Stay Away from Tournament Ball Overuse (Setting Pitch Limit Standards)

A Look at Pitcher Overuse in Youth Tournament Baseball

In this video I cover overuse of tournament baseball pitchers and talk about coaches setting some personal standards on pitch limits, along with rest days.  Also I address key indicators of onset fatigue that can lead to injury if not caught early.  I also talk about setting up a proper warm-up routing and recovery process for after care. 

Jason Beeding

Coach | Mentor | Trainer | Author

www.jasonbeeding.com

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How Communication Impacts Influence

All of us have the power to make a difference in the lives of others. For me it starts with the quality of your communication. The way you communicate and relay information to others directly affects the perception people have of you and the way they perceive you. The level of your communication will also impact your level of influence and leadership.

Whether you are a parent, business owner or coach your influence will come from how you communicate and the quality of the actions you take. If you are wanting something different to happen in your life or with your team or even your family, start by serving them. Change the way you communicate with them and change what you are giving them. If you want love you must give love. If you want obedience, you must give obedience. The people you want influence over must respect you.

Respect is always earned. Sometimes in the beginning of a relationship and sometimes later on. Greet, give and show respect and you will see this reciprocated. Once you have this don't ever lose it. It's terribly hard to get back.

If you are looking to make a difference. Look at the changes you must make first. Challenge yourself to be the communicator you see yourself as. Challenge your level of influence by serving others first. Show change and you will accomplish change in others and in you.

Be blessed everyone.

Jason Beeding

Mentor | Coach | Author

www.jasonbeeding.com

www.armbaseballtraining.com

What Makes a Successful Coach?

Coaching success comes in many different forms. However, well beyond the wins of games lies the true success as a coach. I look at winning as a byproduct of coach and athlete success.   Or in other words it's just a successful moment.  Now there are some games that are won that in my mind would measure true team success. Championships for certain. 

For me, as coach with 30 years of baseball experience and having coached all ages and levels through college. Success as a coach happens when the players you coach ,develop, train, fight for and fight with come together to form a life long bond that can be called upon throughout life's journey. 

Success happens when these players believe in you and your ability to lead them and they are willing to do anything for you on the field of battle. There is a mutual respect and trust which together molds a cohesive team.

My advice is for you to get to know your athletes. Learn what makes them tic. Today's athlete is not yesterday's.  There are cellphones, computers, twitters and all sorts of fun mediums that can spark a disconnect from the coach, player connection. Try to have a real genuine vested interest in their life. Work hard to help them to see and make the right decisions. Encourage them to strive for what they want and to set high standards for themselves. Teach them to handle the "Jungle of Life". They will forever love you for it. Be blessed.

Jason Beeding
Coach | Mentor | Author
www.jasonbeeding.com | www.armbaseballtraining.com

Effectively Executing Your Goals

Ever get that feeling of now what?  You have completed all the necessary steps and your goals are set.  You know what you want and then...

Now What?

I've received several inquires of late asking for help on pushing through some tough goal execution issues.  The common problem with simple terms often used like "Take Action" is related to how.   The objective for this post is to list a way you can effectively execute on your goals.

I advise my clients to think in terms of Goal Action Planning or GAP for short.  Then work into your life, 5 year, 1 year, Monthly, Weekly then Daily goal setting.  Once that is done you will want to set an action plan.  Here is where it starts to get a bit sticky.  The planning part asks for quite a bit deeper thought process.  Lets kick off cutting this down to smaller parts and start backwards to move forwards.  We will start with the goal you are wanting to achieve for the day.  For an example lets take losing weight as an example since this is a common theme for people these days.

Today I want to loose weight.  Fantastic! (Goal).  Positively speaking,  I like this start.  However, I'm going to take the words WANT TO out of the equation.  Now we have a more definitive goal for the day on our hands and change that to "Today I loose weight".  I feel this is much more assertive goal to the mind and make a self accomplished statement.

Okay, so we have our day's goal now "Today I loose weight".  Ask yourself what action will I take on that goal today?  You might answer, by going to the gym and working-out.  Yeah! Great!..
This is where I'm seeing a lot of hang up, in the execution of planning.  The problem with this general goal is in the specificity.  Your planning leads you to the action you want to take so work to be very clear with yourself.  You will want to work deeper in your action planning just as you did in your goal setting.  So, twist the action "working-out".  Be more assertive with your action here.

Example:

Today I loose weight by going to the gym and working-out "on the treadmill".

See how I did that.  The mind is a wonderful machine.  Sometimes we need to tell it what to do vs. letting it tell us what to do.  Try to always work deeper and more specific.  The more specific you can be with yourself the more clarity will come and see you to accomplishment.

We are not quite done yet with our execution.  We need to dig a little bit deeper to create more clarity for out day's goal.  Now we will add in a time stamp in two ways.  One for the experience of time "on the treadmill" and the other is for the experience of time to leave for the gym.    Sorry, I always treat time as an experience vs. obligation.   That is a topic you can email me on if you want to talk further on that specific subject.  Now, back to the day's goal.  We have added in the experience of TIME.  Our goal now looks something like this.

Example: 

Today I loose weight by going to the gym at 6:30 AM and working out on the treadmill for 30 minutes.

Not too bad.  This is a clear and concise goal for yourself that the mind can grasp and help you accomplish. We now have our day's goal.  Let's go and look at our weeks goal.  Since we already know we need to be clear and definitive with our GAP we can skip the cutting and just lay out the rest of the plan.

Example:  

TODAY I loose weight by going to the gym at 6:30 AM and working out on the treadmill for 30 minutes.

This WEEK I will commit to working-out at the gym for 30 minutes doing _______.  I will leave at 6:30 AM each morning.  (I left out the treadmill, you may want to mix things up).

For this MONTH I will loose 5 lbs and will do this by committing each week to waking up at 5:30 AM so I can leave at 6:30 AM to head to the gym and work-out on the treadmill or some other training for 30 minutes.

This YEAR I will loose 60 lbs and run (4) 5 k races.  I will do this by commit to loosing 5 lbs each MONTH by waking up at 5:30 AM so I can leave at 6:30 AM each morning in order to head to the gym and work-out on the treadmill or some other form of exercise for a minimum of 30 min.

(Now keep in mind I have added in some obstacles we need to make adjustments on.  At some point you will need to lengthen your runs to meet the 5 k training.  30 minutes each day will not be enough and you will want to strengthen your DAY's goals.  I did this on purpose for you.  See if you can go on your own and make your GAP go a little deeper to adjust the 1 year fitness goal).

Your 5 year and life goals can be a little bit loftier.  You may put something down like "In the next 5 years I will be healthy and fit".  For your life goal you might put "My life will be a fit and healthy one.  I will lose weight and eat better.  I will no longer take for granted my physical being and experience my time in a new light.

Concluding this post I hope you see value in how I worked backwards to get to the effectively execution portion of goal setting.  Sometimes we just need a little different perspective or point of view to properly get us moving in the right direction.

Jason Beeding
Coach | Mentor | Author
www.jasonbeeding.com | www.armbaseballtraining.com