Effects of Baseball Weighted Implement Training: A Brief Review

We’re starting a series on bat speed training research with a 2009 summary of literature from Dr. Coop DeRenne and Dr. David Szymanski titled “Effects of Baseball Weighted Implement Training: A Brief Review”.  This paper summarizes research on weighted implement training (heavy/light baseball and bats) for both pitching and hitting.  I’m posting summary of the bat speed training for practical purposes, but the  paper provides a a history of implement training going back to Soviet track and field from the 1970’s and 80s.  The list of references (there are 45!) in a paper like this is also very helpful if you are interested in learning more.

Here’s an adapted summary table of the research:
 

Happy to notice that each research study demonstrated successful results in improving bat speed!  We’ll take a close look at each study in the upcoming weeks…

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