Movement Over Maxes: Developing The Foundation for Baseball Performance

by Zach Dechant

Movement Over Maxes is a foundational training program that serves as that starting point for any athlete. It functions as a guide for all coaches to understand and implement basic movement patterns with a long-term development approach. It is a starting point that values movement above all. It is built to create movement competencies that will carry athletes through future endeavors with a solid foundation of development.The book Movement Over Maxes will provide fundamental progressions to the Big 5 movement patterns for all athletes. These are movement patterns every developing athlete should how to squat, hinge, push, pull, brace, land, jump, and sprint. The basics are the basics, whether the athlete is in high school or college. Although it was optimally built for the overhead athlete, this program isn’t necessarily one of specialization. It is focused on developing the entire athlete and quality movement first and foremost so future loading can take place. Every concept in this manual will build upon the previous ones, leaving athletes with a well-rounded foundation.Movement Over Maxes was created for the coach who wears every hat for their program... the coach who mows the grass, drags the infield, handles the equipment, and trains the athletes. This is for the coach who devotes their life to not only creating better baseball players, but growing boys into men through sport.

169 pages, Paperback

Published November 23, 2018

Reviews

[Benjamin Reinhard]

Guess i need to start reading more biomech type books

[Kyle Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you are working with youth athletes (HS all the way down to 8 year olds; even collegiate athletes), this is a must read book. Zach is a master program builder and his philosophy is laid out nicely in this book. I run a baseball/softball training facility and one of our employees interned under Zach at TCU and I can assure you these are the methods used with his athletes. The ebook comes with some other great resources and videos as well. This should be required reading for all HS coaches in my opinion.

[Brandon Mimick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very quick read with a large wealth of insights and explanation which help to redirect or reaffirm. Highly recommended even if your area is not baseball.