Optimal Power Performance

This summer is gonna be 🔥

If you want to join a training facility that will be equally as obsessed as you are about improving, you should apply (link in bio) for our summer training program.

No, we don’t upsell you on your biomechanics reports, we don’t upsell you on assessments, and we don’t use our pro athletes as marketing ploys by giving them free training and using them on social media to promote ourselves. We care more about your results than we do our social media presence.

You can expect us to tell you what you need to hear, not necessarily what you want to hear. Reach out today, link in bio.

Losing velocity in-season usually stems from a lack of discipline and/or mismanagement of stress.

Check the most basic boxes first driving yourself crazy trying to do a massive overhaul on mechanics.

Far to many baseball guys are obsessed with being the fastest player on the field, when in reality it’s hardly ever the fastest player has the most opportunities.

If you can hit, they find a place for you at any level. If you throw hard and can field field your position too, now you’re making it easy to get a job or get the look you want.

When the scout day, pro day or a big showcase comes up. Prep a few weeks in advance for the 60 with 10yd & 30yd sprints. Just keep in mind that your 60 time is far less impressive then putting on a show at the plate or throwing the ball hard and fielding your position well.

Scroll through our videos and you will means, methods and training tactics that work.
❌Not exercises created for likes and views.
❌No random study cited to prove our bias and provide validation.
❌No formula or method named after our company to make you believe we are the creators of everything you see on this page.
❌No BS

Get around the right people. A large part of your success stems from your environment.
Get around people pursuing the same thing you are. If they can’t match or succeed your efforts then it’s time to find new people.

I said efforts, not talent.

“Training where the pros train” is a nice tagline to sell services to kids who don’t know any better, but it is quickly losing its value.

At first, it’s exciting. Training next to someone who plays on TV doing the very thing you want to do with your life. It’s a similar feeling to working with a coach who has also played at the level you want to get to. But over time as you get educated on the training process from various social media accounts like ours and others. By asking questions and going down player development rabbit holes, you start to see how un-stressful some of these pro athletes train. You start to see how common it is for these pro athletes to get babied because the place they train at is more worried about retaining them as clients for promotional gain rather then getting them better at their sport. You start to see how much your “pro” coach doesn’t really know, as you stay the same talent wise year after year yet you keep feeding their pockets. In other words, it becomes less attractive over time.

When you find a place who’s training science is backed by theoretical research and validated by real results who also match or succeed your effort level… you finally found it.

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Hitting instruction has progressed far passed “getting more glute” into your swing.

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Consistency. With out it, your new found strength, velo, speed, etc. will be fleeting. Be consistent. Be on time. Be a good training partner and always look for an opportunity to compete. It’s how you become a member here and how you stay a member.

Link in bio to apply

From high school to pro’s, we’ve seen many athletes waist their time investing in gimmicks and false promises from companies who are more worried about their bottom line then they are the athletes results.

Our marketing strategy is our athletes results. With 0$ spent on advertising, 99.9% of our new trainees are referrals, both in-person and remote.

Are you not where you want to be? Consider applying here (link in bio) before you invest your career on something that hasn’t been proven to actually get ppl where they want to be.

Black Friday is LIVE on our website‼️

Some of the apparel is seasonal and once it’s gone it’s one for good!

We also have our coaching course discounted (75$ off‼️)

On top of that, use code:
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for an additional 5% off site wide.

****This promotion is only good until midnight!

There is no magical exercise or program that will get you to your long term goals. Consistency and intelligent planning will get you there.

We will handle the intelligent planning, you handle the consistency. To apply for training click the link in our bio!

Quality over quantity
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S/O to .kucherak for taking his 9’2” broad jump to 9’10” during his fall season of baseball. Our training goals were not focused on specially to enhancing his broad jump, as 9’2 was already decent. Our goal was to bring up the special strengths he was lacking and improve his movement quality (internal capacity) specific to the demands of his sport. In turn, jumps went 👆and sprint times went 👇

When it comes to training tools… use whatever works.

Skill acquisition is a complex thing and many use that to their advantage and push the complexity side of it in order to push their product or stand out.

Here’s our take on it… having a deeper understanding of what the ideal or “better” mechanics are prior to beginning the training that is supposed to enhance or change those mechanics gives you a decent target and is far better than just trying to hit a target with a blindfold on. So prior to us making mechanical changes for any athlete (throwing/hitting) We spend the first initial training days educating the athlete on what they do well, what they don’t do so well, where we are trying to make changes, and most importantly why we are trying to make those changes.

As we begin to add constraints to try and influence mechanical changes, the athlete approaches each constraint drill with a basic idea on why they are doing the drill and what the drill is supposed to help them achieve in the long term. This takes away a lot of the thinking process during the actual training session and promotes more of a feel process. If we skipped the education part and just threw in constraints, the athlete wouldn’t have that target in the back of their mind guiding them during the process.

To sum it up, get educated on the skill you want to improve. Then use whatever tools/drills that promote feel and get you out of your own head. Next, have a plan that allows you to track this process over time with out bias. This will help you make decisions on weather or not what you’re doing is working and what you should do next.

Doing all this only part of our process however. Having multiple programs inter-twine to blend and compliment each other is where we separate ourselves from the pack. If you’re interested in joining us, we provide detailed player development options for baseball players. We cover S&C, throwing/pitching development and hitting. Simply click the link in our bio and request an application to train!

When you look back on your career, the 2 things you should never regret are your work ethic and what you did with your time.

Every day is an opportunity to work either toward your goals or further away from them. Make sure to take steps in the right direction.

We primarily time 10yd dashes and not flying 10s. Mainly because after 10yds for baseball players (or most sports for that matter) the athlete usually isn’t running in a straight line. Unless it’s a 40yd/60yd dash, the athlete will be decelerating to cut/move etc. and accelerating again on a different path. Explosive strength and starting strength being more prevalent than acceleration.

Our goal is to get sub 1.6 and as close as possible to 1.50.
1.65 - 1.7 is average, at least for us.

For the guys out there that only “hurt” when they suck but are completely fine when they aren’t. You’re not hurt. You’re soft.

This mindset is dangerous. These people are not the ones you want to be around. They will suck the life out of your training environment and only compete when they know they can win. Competing when you might lose is the best competition you can give yourself.

Rant done.

What they don’t wanna tell you is that the “assessment” is really just a way for them to provide a service they know they should. So that way you are convinced the program is tailored to your individual needs. When in reality, they are gonna plug in the same old stuff they would for anyone your age with your training experience🤷‍♂️ these same coaches usually have no idea what special strengths even are.

I’m all for assessments. Just with the right intentions. At OPP we only test what will actually alter our programming decisions. No fluff or additives to make you feel special.

If you’re a coach and want to learn more about what we do. We have a course called Conjugate 4 Athletes that breaks this down in detail, click the link in our bio and head over to courses. A full write up on what else thy is course entails can be found in our blog!

It’s here‼️

The Baseball Conjugate 4 Athletes Strength and Conditioning Course will drop on Memorial Day with a massive sale. Save 100$ by signing up Monday.

The course will be 399$ on sale. When it goes back to full price it will be 499$

👉Learn how to apply scientific laws and principles for the training process of your athletes. This course Is something I have been working on for the last 8 months. I felt it was only right to provide other coaches something they could actually apply to their athletes training right away.

There are A LOT of fallacies flying around the s&c world right now. This course will help you w**d through the BS and find what works.

A full write up on the course will be available soon!

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We don’t care about what certifications you have or where you went to school. We simply want the best coaches. That’s it.

If you know of someone who you think would do great here, tag them below👇 or send this to them!

Everything CAN be improved on, but not all at once. Delegate training days toward specific objectives, change the stimulus when needed and rotate the means back in when necessary.

Often athletes want to burn the candle at both ends.

Swinging 150x a day with a goal to just be good at everything isn’t really a plan. How do you know those 1,000 hacks a week is taking you to where you want to be?

What’s the objective today? What constraint drills are you cycling in this week and how long are you working on those drills to see if they actually make a change? Are you giving them enough time or too much?

Operation lose some followers in full effect.

For those who are going to get mad and say all the good things you get from playing through the summer. I hear you. Honestly if you’re good enough and need to use that time to get looks for college, then so be it.

However, if you’re not good enough to get the looks you want. Then it could be a large of waste of time. Consider this, most player development facilities now a days provide ‘live at bats’ for those who need that stimulus. Not every hitter needs live at bats to get better at hitting. If you sucked all season, summer ball probably isn’t the magic fix.

Not every pitcher needs to face hitters. Some may need to isolate time to build their body (weight room) and improve their mechanics (skill work) in order to increase velo and become a better player.

Sometimes isolating a few months to significantly improve particular parts of your game (increase velo, improve mechanics to become more efficient, get rid of nagging pain, improve strength, speed, etc) could help you return the following year as a better player.

The biggest issue I see with HS/College sports is that athletes return the following year the exact same player. Often they either get their lil 24 hour gym pass and workout with their buddies, thinking they can just “work hard” and figure out how to program for themselves over night. Or they wasted an entire summer playing because they need to get ‘seen’, even tho the product they put in front of those scouts just wasn’t good enough 🤷‍♂️

Then they wait until most opportunities are dwindling down or they realize they aren’t as good as they should be by now compared to their peers and reach out to finally make the investment and take the deep dive into player development.

This approach sucks because of the significant time already wasted. Time is not your friend, so if you didn’t get better, you got worse.

While you were striking out in summer ball or impressing zero scouts with your 80 poo fastball…

Others were crushing their training, day in and day out, isolating specific parts of their game with specific stressors put in place by someone else who they entrusted to run their development.

Operation lose some followers in full effect.

For those who are going to get mad and say all the good things you get from playing through the summer. I hear you. Honestly if you’re good enough and need to use that time to get looks for college, then so be it.

However, if you’re not good enough to get the looks you want. Then it could be a large of waste of time. Consider this, most player development facilities now a days provide ‘live at bats’ for those who need that stimulus. Not every hitter needs live at bats to get better at hitting. If you sucked all season, summer ball probably isn’t the magic fix.

Not every pitcher needs to face hitters. Some may need to isolate time to build their body (weight room) and improve their mechanics (skill work) in order to increase velo and become a better player.

Sometimes isolating a few months to significantly improve particular parts of your game (increase velo, improve mechanics to become more efficient, get rid of nagging pain, improve strength, speed, etc) could help you return the following year as a better player.

The biggest issue I see with HS/College sports is that athletes return the following year the exact same player. Often they either get their lil 24 hour gym pass and workout with their buddies, thinking they can just “work hard” and figure out how to program for themselves over night. Or they wasted an entire summer playing because they need to get ‘seen’, even tho the product they put in front of those scouts just wasn’t good enough 🤷‍♂️

Then they wait until most opportunities are dwindling down or they realize they aren’t as good as they should be by now compared to their peers and reach out to finally make the investment and take the deep dive into player development.

This approach sucks because of the significant time already wasted. Time is not your friend, so if you didn’t get better, you got worse.

While you were striking out in summer ball or impressing zero scouts with your 80 poo fastball…

Others were crushing their training, day in and day out, isolating specific parts of their game with specific stressors put in place by someone else who they entrusted to run their development.

Over the last year we have been able to make some major upgrades to the gym. It’s not the biggest nor the nicest. But it’s ours and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

To all the athletes who train with us, thank you for your support and entrusting us with your development. We are creating something big here! One athlete at a time.

Who’s out there currently getting scammed!? 🙋‍♂️

Here’s the thing. I want S&C coaches to be successful. I don’t wish bad business on anyone besides the ladder/bosu ball lovers. Lol

But really, most of the baseball strength coaches testing this way are only doing it because they care. So I’m going to educate em in a way they will understand, only if they want it.

We know the human body adapts only to the demand placed upon it. Which is why we know we need to provide planned stress in an environment that allows the athlete to learn organically with minimal cueing.

When a thrower does high intent pull downs. That stimulus is put in place to be a specific stressor for an adaptation we want to see happen later on. It’s not always put in place for the same reasons though. Maybe an athlete needs to be more rotational in their delivery on the mound, so we have them do a variation of the pulldown like shuffle throws or turn an burns that will help constrain them enough to still “let it eat” and also improve their sequence. Maybe some need more linear, so the straight sprint approach may work better. All in all though, that stimulus is usually pretty beneficial as long as the athlete was ready for that stress to begin with.

When we put a hitter in an environment where they are asked to hit a stationary ball as hard as possible to light up a radar gun. It’s NOT the same thing. Hitting sequence will change due to the environment and the task.

When we hit and throw, there are moments of relaxation and contraction. The timing of those contractions needs to be repeatable to be efficient. High effort pulldowns usually don’t change that timing because the art of the pulldown is so close to a high effort throw off the mound. Just adding a dash of linear momentum and gravity into the mix causes for a bigger impulse and energy sent up the chain. The body learns how to sequence better (a lot of the time, not all the time) when this stimulus is put in place. When a hitter is in a game, it’s completely reactive and the timing of these contractions are based off their response (decision to launch barrel into the zone) to the pitchers throw.
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