The Motor Preference Approach to Baseball Mechanics

In our daily movements, we operate within a system that prioritizes economy, effectiveness, and efficiency, all driven by our innate survival instincts. Our bodies instinctively seek to optimize movement to enhance our chances of survival while minimizing injury risk. This remarkable ability to adapt to our environment has led scientists to explore various theories, including the concept of motor preferences. One key discovery involves displacement profiles in the sagittal plane, which has significant implications in sports like baseball, influencing areas such as physical preparation, injury prevention, mental readiness, and the adaptation of technical skills. At Baseball U Performance, we use this approach to tailor individual workouts and training sessions to the athlete specific to their motor preference assessment results.

Performance-Driven Baseball Training

Hitting

BaseballUPerformance, believes that hitting is as much an art as it is a science. Our team of experts is highly experienced and equipped with all the knowledge and skills needed to help players of all levels excel on the plate. We focus on honing the key aspects of a solid swing, including grip, posture, approach, and follow-through. Our customized programs are designed to help players improve their skill set and stay ahead of the competition.

Throwing

To be a successful athlete, you need to have all your bases covered. And when it comes to baseball, throwing is one of the key fundamentals. At BaseballUPerformance, we offer comprehensive throwing programs designed to help athletes of all ages master the art of throwing. Our trainers use a results-driven approach, taking the time to analyze your form and provide personalized feedback to help you reach your full potential.

Mobility

At BaseballUPerformance, where we prioritize mobility training as an essential component of athletic development. Our personalized program is designed to increase range of motion, flexibility, and overall body control, all while preventing injury. With a focus on proper technique and customized training plans, our team helps athletes of all levels enhance their performance on and off the field.

Strength

We understand the importance of strength training in baseball, and that's why we offer tailored programs that focus on core strength, explosive power, endurance, and recovery. Our team of experienced trainers will work closely with you to understand your needs and goals and create a plan to get you there. We have everything you need to take your strength training routine to a new level, including advanced strength equipment, expert coaching, and a motivating atmosphere.

Running

At BaseballUPerformance, our passion for the sport is what drives us to provide top-notch training and performance services. We are dedicated to helping athletes reach their full potential by offering personalized training programs that cater to their specific needs. Our expert coaches are passionate about running energetic and effective sessions that push athletes to their limits, while ensuring they have fun and enjoyable experience.

1. Determine your Profile: After an assessment, your profile will be determined between a Terrestrial or Arieal mover.
2. Needs Pyramid of the Living:

Energy - Eat, Drink, Rest
Balance - Balance Perception, Action
Emotion - Pleasure/Pain Ratio
Efficacy - Energy/Tissue Efficiency

3. The Triangle of preferences:

Motor Preferences: AERIAL or TERRESTRIAL
Current Situation: Athlete's situation, time, energy, means
Goals: What are the athlete's goals?

4. Think Focal and Gobal: What is the Athlete's focal and global vision?

5. The Personal Zone: Movement emerges from interconnected underlying elements that combine in a dynamic balance, in order to reach an optimum.

6. Magnifying Effect: The Motor Preferences are a range. Each athlete's profile must be evaluated individually and placed in this range.

7. Decision Tree: The motor preferences approach to work, is to understand no move is good or bad but it is only an individual optimum.

8. Cumulative Observations: It is necessary to have different points of view to analyze motor preferences of an athlete. To do so, motor preference experts accumulate many observations.

Posture
Balance
Running
The Technique

9. Alignment of Intention - Action - Emotion: To make a type of movement that goes with a type of balance and feeling, you have to develop an intention and a representation that are concomitant.

10. Structure the Action: Once data and assessments are completed, you must create structure to the action in order to advance.

11. The Monitoring: Monitor the athlete to ensure success and progress.

11 Keys of Motor Preferences
Motor Preference Expert, David Genest

The Motor Preference Approach to Baseball Mechanics

Performance-Driven Baseball Training

1. Determine your Profile: After an assessment, your profile will be determined between a Terrestrial or Arieal mover. ​2. Needs Pyramid of the Living:

Energy - Eat, Drink, Rest

Balance - Balance Perception, Action

Emotion - Pleasure/Pain Ratio

Efficacy - Energy/Tissue Efficiency

3. The Triangle of preferences:

Motor Preferences: AERIAL or TERRESTRIAL

Current Situation: Athlete's situation, time, energy, means

Goals: What are the athlete's goals?

4. Think Focal and Gobal: What is the Athlete's focal and global vision?

5. The Personal Zone: Movement emerges from interconnected underlying elements that combine in a dynamic balance, in order to reach an optimum.​​

6. Magnifying Effect: The Motor Preferences are a range. Each athlete's profile must be evaluated individually and placed in this range.

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7. Decision Tree: The motor preferences approach to work, is to understand no move is good or bad but it is only an individual optimum.

8. Cumulative Observations: It is necessary to have different points of view to analyze motor preferences of an athlete. To do so, motor preference experts accumulate many observations.

Posture

Balance

Running

The Technique

​9. Alignment of Intention - Action - Emotion: To make a type of movement that goes with a type of balance and feeling, you have to develop an intention and a representation that are concomitant.

​10. Structure the Action: Once data and assessments are completed, you must create structure to the action in order to advance. ​