Posts Tagged ‘softball is for girls’
What are YOU doing to MAKE a Difference? | Kris Massaro for Softball is For Girls
If you think that you are the only girl that has a hitting coach, or a trainer, the only girl that takes BP with your dad a few times a week or goes to clinics and camps, you are sorely mistaken. In fact, I think it’s safe to say you are one of tens of thousands of girls that does that.
Read MoreSoftball is For Girls **PRESS RELEASE** –
Things are changing. And things are changing fast. And we have to admit that more than a time or two, we have thought about closing down Softball is For Girls because it is not easy dealing with so many peeps online. Whether you know it or not, we put our heart and souls into this…
Read MoreFive Must Do Exercises for PITCHERS!
Expert Kris Massaro shares 5 exercises you should incorporate into your pitchers training program!
Read MoreAnd God Made a Softball Player
With just enough dirt from the earth, and a little sweat from the sea
Just enough soft from the clouds, and a sturdy branch from a tree.
A little grass stain here and some blood for a bruise
He made a girl who’d accomplish anything in life she would choose.
10 Takeaways From the Track Field
High school track season has just ended for us. I will be the first to admit, that track meets are BORING, and that the experience is nothing like going to a softball game. But ya know…you do what you have to do, and watching our kids compete and do their thing is one of those…
Read MoreDecreasing a Players Time to First Base | Kris Massaro | Softball is For Girls
Time to first is a game changer. No one can deny that speed kills. Decreasing a players time to first is an important training element, Today, we show you simple technique for doing just that.
Read MoreAccountability!
Have we become so watered down as a society, so me oriented, so consumed with what we want and what our kids want that every rule has leeway to be broken as long as it suits our needs? What does this teach our children? Someone needs to stand up and say ENOUGH! This is ridiculous.
Read MoreCatchers Pop Time | Kris Massaro
Pop time for catchers. It’s a thing. An elite pop time for a catcher is 1.8 seconds. If you have a catcher struggling in this department, this may help.
Read MoreLife Lessons From Softball Little Leaguers | Softball Is For Girls
Lessons from the littles…There are only so many chances in life to slide into home plate! Go ahead and slide. Make a grand entrance. Get a little dirty. And by all means remain enthusiastic every time you cross home plate!
Read MoreMobility Must Haves for Softball Players
We see all sorts of money being spent on lessons, equipment, and training – but less often – that same money and time being spent on MOBILITY and EXERCISES specifically for softball players and improved performance? Today, Kris shares some expert advice on making your player a better athlete.
Read MoreAn Open Letter from a Once Entitled SOFTBALL Player
I also never learned that at some point…(and not soon enough in my case) your weaknesses would show up. Your lacks will reveal themselves. Others will see them and nothing will be able to save you. And all that entitlement – for all those years….isn’t worth a damn.
Read MoreSoftball Catchers Performance Training | Kris Massaro
Catchers are some of the most athletic players on the field. As incredible as these players are, I find little true catcher specific performance training designed for their needs. Today, Kris Massara with Softball Strong gives CATCHER SPECIFIC WORKOUTS to improve endurance, strength and movement.
Read MoreRaising Athletes | Softball Is For Girls
Our goals are not just about winning games, or getting into college. Our goals HAVE to be to raise children who grow up to be awesome mothers and fathers to tomorrows children.
To raise kids who grow up to be good husbands, and good wives. Who grow up to compassionate towards others, who have empathy, and who are prepared for a big, bad, bold world of ugly that is willing to suck them in at anytime.
Read MoreMy Daughter Is a Headcase | Softball Is For Girls
Because softball….and because life….Well, they are both games of errors and mistakes. We win some, we lose some. We make mistakes, we drop balls, we walk people, we overthrow, we miss the mark of perfection – countless times. On the field and off.
Read MoreDirty Hands | Softball is For Girls
It’s her blood sugar. It has to be. Everyone as bad days, but when the bad days or the bad play just seems out of character and your kid is a type 1, you immediately go to the blood sugar. When you are a T1D mom, you go to the blood sugar. Not as an excuse, but because that feeling hits you that something just isn’t right with your kid.
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