Strength Conditioning Drill: V Up Throw (Baseball)
Dynamic core exercise pairing a V-up with a ball throw or hold. Develops trunk control and rotational power.
How to Run This Drill
- Start lying flat on your back with a tennis ball or medicine ball.
- Come up into a V position - simultaneously raise your legs and torso.
- With a tennis ball: throw it down at the top of the V position.
- With a medicine ball: come up, hold at the top, then lower back down.
- Important: Your fulcrum should be your butt cheeks, not your lower back. Do not sit on your lower back.
- Pair this with Zombie Squats as a superset for leg and trunk training together.
Coaching Points
- Fulcrum is your butt, not lower back
- Hold at top position
- Great paired with squats as superset
- Strengthens trunk control
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