High Performance Preparation DVD
Skill Level: Beginner & Advanced
Focus: Warm-Up

This brand new softball specific video is designed to empower the softball player and coach with cutting edge exercises and techniques that are specifically designed to improve performance to its highest possible level. The information presented will take you through the proper way to stretch and warm-up while dispelling some myths about the pre-game warm-up. You will also learn softball specific warm-up exercises to help you or your athletes excel at their respective positions. Included is a warm-up card listing all of the exercises covered in the DVD which you can carry with you to practice or your workouts.

High Performance Preparation features two of the world’s leading experts on Softball Training – Jessica Mendoza, Olympic Softball Gold and Silver Medalist Outfielder and Brandon Marcello, Strength & Conditioning Coach for the US Olympic Softball Team and Director of Sports Performance for Stanford University.

This 46 minute Instructional DVD is softball specific and a fantastic tool to help any softball coach get their team warmed-up properly as well as train their players to maintain speed, agility and strength for both practice and games!

The High Performance Preparation DVD will:

• Give you 38 great warm-up exercises that the US Olympic Softball Team did every day before every practice and every game
• Give you exercises that your players and your team can do. Exercises that will actually make them better!
• Teach you how to improve your player’s performance
• Help your team cut down on injuries
• Show you exactly how each exercise is performed starting from simple warm up exercises and progressing to more challenging ones
• Give you the proper way for your players to warm-up
• Discuss common warm-up myths – what’s true and what’s false
• Let you watch Jessica Mendoza do each exercise while Brandon Marcello explains what to do and why
• A warm-up card listing every single exercise covered so you can take it with you to practice or your games.

After seeing each exercise explained and demonstrated in detail you can watch Brandon take Jess through the entire workout so you and your players can see just how quickly and completely they can warm up and improve their performance!

Jessica Mendoza: Jessica is a 2008 Olympic Silver Medalist and 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist outfielder while leading the 2008 team in batting average. Jessica played her college ball at Stanford University where she was a 4 time All-American, the Pac 10 Player of the Year and an All-Women’s College World Series performer. She is also a color analyst for ESPN where she’s on the broadcast crew for the Women’s College World Series. Jess is considered one of the best outfielders and hitters in the world!

Brandon Marcello: Brandon is currently the Director of Sports Performance at Stanford University, working with their softball team as well as many of their other great Pac-10 teams. Brandon is also the former Strength & Conditioning Coach for the USA Softball Olympic Team and spent over a year traveling and training the Olympic Softball team on all the Tour stops as well as at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Brandon is considered one of the best sports performance trainers in the US and definitely one of the top strength and conditioning coaches for softball in the world. Brandon was formerly the Associate Director of Athletes’ Performance in Tempe, AZ where he worked with a ton of world class athletes including Nomar Garciaparra, Mia Hamm, Phil Mickelson, and Maria Sharapova.