Marc Dagenais just released a new DVD for Dynamic Warm-Up for Softball System. Discover how to simultaneously increase speed, power, agility, and flexibility. Prepare for superior performances and prevent injuries all in just a couple of minutes while warming-up. By using the same dynamic warm-up exercises that Olympic softball athletes use to prepare themselves to dominate on the softball field and achieve extraordinary performances.
Editorial Review
Traditional (aka "old school") warm-ups with static stretching are ineffective to prevent injuries and also decrease performance. They need to be ditched and replaced with something that actually prevents injuries and increases performance - dynamic warm-ups. Dynamic warm-ups through dynamic stretches, mobility exercises, and various activation drills prevent injuries and increase performance by fully warming-up your body, loosening up all your muscles, and turning on your nervous system so that you can be super alert, totally primed and ready to quickly fire all your explosive fast-twitch muscle fibers to generate speed and power.
Yet, most dynamic warm-up routines being performed in softball focus almost exclusively on the lower body with very little trunk or upper body in them. Aren't the trunk and the upper body important in our sport? The big problem is that the dynamic warm-ups are not softball-specific!
Most dynamic warm-ups being taught out there by trainers were developed for sports with a heavy emphasis on running and the lower body (track, football, soccer, basketball, and so on). So just about every dynamic warm-up protocol does a really good job of warming up the lower body but totally forgets the trunk and the upper body. This is a problem for a softball player as we rely extensively on the trunk and the upper body to throw, catch, and hit. Athletes definitely need to warm-up the upper body as well and most dynamic warm-ups fail to properly do so.
Dynamic warm-ups can be the secret weapon for your team as it makes the players game-ready to come out of the gate strong because of superior pre-game preparation.
Marc has developed a high-performance, softball-specific dynamic warm-up protocol that is highly effective at preventing injuries and preparing the body to perform at a superior level!
Customer Review
As a coach, I've always struggled with what kind of proper warm up the kids should do. This Dynamic Warm-Up for Softball System has really been a hit with the kids on my team. They actually enjoy it and you can see them getting better and better at it. Absolutely no pulls or strains since implementing it.
It's been 6 weeks and the results are tremendous. Functionally, they move a lot better and yet it doesn't take that long to accomplish. There is enough variety that it does not get stale for the girls either. However, the best thing is that the team has also been playing very well since we started using this warm-up!
Rob Sciortino, Ft. Worth, TX
Dynamic Warm-Up for Softball System
About Marc Dagenais
Although Marc was an accomplished baseball player in his youth, in 1989 at age 13 he decided to coach his younger sister's softball team. During his teens, he took all the coaching courses available, became a skilled coach, and experienced tremendous success winning many tournaments and championships in addition to receiving numerous "Coach of the Year" awards. At 19 years old, he also became the youngest softball coach in Canada to receive a full level III coaching certification.
In early 1999, Marc became a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and moved to Vancouver, BC, to become an assistant softball coach at Simon Fraser University (SFU). During his three years at SFU (2000-2002), they never finished lower than 3rd at the NAIA National Championship in addition to playing several top D-1 schools like Arizona (facing Jennie Finch), Arizona State, Washington, Nebraska, Oregon and Long Beach.
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