Introductions

Hello, to all the baseball coaches, players and parents; but most of all, the fans who make this amazing game possible with your dedicated support and commitment!

My name is Jake H. and I will be joining the Midwest Baseball Magazine blogging staff as the baseball training guru.  The blog will discuss a number of topics, such as on-field flexibility training, in-season & out-season workouts, pre-game nutrition and many more areas of interest for the up and coming player.  In this initial blog I will introduce myself and my background.

I have been truly blessed to be apart of the baseball experience since my early days as a Little Leaguer.  I grew up in northern California in the San Jose area.  From the day I was born my life was filled with baseball.  Icy cold night games at Candlestick Park (that was before 3Comm, Pac Bell, or AT&T) and tailgate BBQ’s at the Coliseum in Oakland was how my young summers were filled.  I was transplanted to Arizona in the summer of 1997 where I quickly realized there was no regular season Major League Baseball.  To my excitement, not even a year later the Diamondback’s opened up shop and my world was complete again.

Skip ahead a few years to October/November 2001 when my passion for the game grew uncontrollably.  I was one of the lucky few who had tickets to Game 7 of the D-backs – Yankees World Series.  Witnessing that game in person was unlike anything I had ever before experienced.  During the years surrounding that epic World Series, I had been playing ball in high school and during the winter of my senior year I won a roster spot on an international independent team going to play in Australia.  

I went on to play college baseball at two smaller universities and then decided to come back to my home state and begin my coaching career.  I began doing personal instruction with Big League Baseball Instruction (BLBI) here in the valley of the sun.  Last year I accepted a coaching position at Gateway Community College where I worked with their catchers and hitters.  I am still heavily involved with BLBI, where I have recently been placed as head of our baseball physical training and nutrition sector.

I am currently back in school finishing up a degree in Exercise & Wellness-Sports Performance at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic Campus.  I will be graduating in May 2008 and plan to continue my work in the game of baseball as a coach and trainer; prospectively looking towards a strength coach position with a major league organization.  

If there are any specific training topics that you, as readers, would like me to blog on I would be more than happy to accommodate some of your requests.  I will never claim to know everything about training for baseball, but I will stake my credibility on not relaying any false or detrimental information to my readers.

Jake H.
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