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95% OF ALL PEOPLE PLAYING AND COACHING DO NOT UNDERSTAND TRAINING FOR POWER. Sad but true. Most players and coaches understand practice. They understand someting about weight training. They know very little about training for sports power. They know even less about the mechanics of power (how the body develops swing or throwing power). Most of the methods used to teach hitting and pitching are wrong. Most coaches rely on how they used to do it. Worse yet they make everything too complicated. The proper way (mechanics) to develop maximum swing or throwing power and control are easy to under stand. The problem is players do not spend enough time DOING it. You can watch all the videos and read all the books. But the only way to develop more power is doing it and doing it RIGHT. Players and coaches confuse practice and training.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRAINING AND PRACTICE Practice is not the same as training. Baseball pratice stresses drills, repetition and timing. Baseball training is developing your maximum USEABLE power. Practice is to fine tune your timing and skills. Training (hitting, throwing and sprinting power) is developing your mechanics and power to work TOGETHER. Practice is then used to fine tune what training has developed. Training is also doing it right. Someone once said "practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes perfect". The same is true about training.

BASEBALL PLAYERS DO NOT SWING AND THROW ENOUGH Do you average 150 QUALITY swings 4-5 times a week. Do you average 200 quality throws a week. If your answer is no, you are not even close to reaching your maximum baseball capability.

SMART POWER IS THE "FASTEST PROGRESS IN THE SHORTEST TIME WITH THE LEAST EFFORT". 30 years of sports training  research is now the most advanced training system possible, SMART POWER. You will see swing by swing and throw by throw improvements. Nine out of ten players see at least a 5 MPH improvement in their bat speed and a 3 MPH in thier throwing speed after the first training session.

SMART POWER WORKS FOR ALL AGES. A 9 year old using our training system has improved his swing speed 20 MPH in 4 weeks. A 16 year old 21 MPH in 3 weeks. A 45 year old 18 MPH in 2 weeks. These players worked hard every day and they worked SMART every day.

SMART POWER BASICS 85 out of 100 swings or throws you make are of little or no value. Every throw or swing needs to focus on Strength, Speed, Location or Mental training. Most players have no plan to make this happen.

STRENGTH Muscle is made up of fibers (like thin threads). There are two types of muscle fiber, fast and slow. Slow fibers take longer to develop strength (contract) than fast fibers. Fast and slow exist side by side in all of our muscles. The body always tries to use slow fibers. Slow fibers don’t use a much energy as the fast muscle fibers. Your body is always trying to use the smallest amout of energy . The body learned how to do this to survive. Slow fibers are the first ones the body tries to use. But hitting and trowining require fast fibers. That because power is strngth and speed TOGETHER. But the body will fight to use its slow fibers. To get the fast fibers to turn on, you have to over load the body. Lifting weights, swinging hard, throwing hard all force the body to use its fast fibers.

RANGE OF MOTION Remember that the body always trys to protect itself. When ever you move an arm or leg, only those mucle fibers needed are used. This means that every motion uses different muscle fibers. This is part of what’s called the "specificity principle". Incorrect or incomplete training is one of the biggest mistake players and coaches make. Training for maximum swing and throwing power requires exercises that duplicate as closely as possible hitting and throwing motions. Researchers call this sport specific training. This is why when you train you must try to duplicate the same motions as the event you are training for. If you do not use the same or similar motion, the muscle fibers needed for the event will not be fully trained. This is called range of motion. Swinging a bat has a different range of motion than throwing a baseball.

TO DEVELOP MAXIMUM SWING OR THROW SPEED REQUIRES STRENGTH AND SPEED. The muscles must contract rapidly. Researchers call this Rate of Force Development (RFD). To develop maximum RFD, your training exercises need to maximize mucle acceleration. Exercises that let the muscle accelerate all the way through range of motion are called "ballistic exercises". Ballistic training requires equipment and exercises specifically designed for hitting and throwing.

LOCATION AND MENTAL TRAINING BASEBALL POWER IS NOT JUST STRONG AND FAST MUSCLES. Baseball power is a combination of vision, brain and muscles working together. Theres more to training than training the muscles. Muscle speed and the number of muscle fibers activated (recruitment) determine power. Muscle speed and muscle recruitment require sport specific mental training (training the muscles to work when you want them to work). SMART POWER TRAINING is designed specifically for developing maximum possible swing and throwing power in the shortest time.

SMART POWER BRINGS TOGETHER THE FOUR BUILDING BLOCKS OF SPORTS POWER Only SETPRO's training systems bring it all together. STRENGTH TRAINING, RANGE OF MOTION STRENGTH, STRENGTH to POWER CONVERSION, and SPORT SPECFIC TRAINING.

These building blocks are combined with FEEDBACK (swing by swing, throw by throw results) and PERIODIZATION (when and how much to train). Add to this training aides carefully selected to develop maxmum speed and strength. The result is a easy to understand and fun to use system that delivers tremendous results.

What is SETPRO? SETPRO designs and sells sport specific training products and systems. SETPRO had it's beginnings 32 years ago. At that time I was a college athlete dedicated to becoming the best.

I trained harder (at least I thought I did) than my team mates. I read everything I could find (which was not much compared to today's available information). Some training methods I tried worked, many did not!

Some very knowledgeable people around me. My college coach went on to become one of the worlds leading authorities on bio-mechanical analysis and founded one of the largest bio-mechanical analysis equipment companies in the world. My best friend, team mate, and class mate developed much of his computer software and went on to head US Olympic Committees bio-mechanics training center in Colorado Springs. I went on to spend over 20 years in industry developing computer measurement and control systems.

But my first love was/is sports training. Ten years ago I became chief engineer for Sports Technology Inc developing computerized measurement and training products for golf. And five years ago I started SETPRO (Sports Engineering and Training Products).

SETPRO has concentrated on baseball and softball. We introduced the concept of sport specific training with feedback and simulation. Using this program, hitters develop their maximum power and quickness capabilities in the shortest possible time. Training results have been better than we could have possibly imagined. We are now at the point where where 93 out of 100 players can expect a minimum increase in bat speed of 10 MPH in 3 weeks.

We continue to develop new products and methods of training. In the very near future we will announce our "Personal Trainer" Ballistic Power training System for hitters.

We have spent the last two years developing a sports specific training program for pitchers. This effort began with an extensive investigation of pitching mechanics. We analyzed the best of today's major league pitchers as well as some of the best from years past. We studied all of the available research on pitching mechanics and training of pitchers.We performed hundreds of hours of testing on pitchers of all ages. What we learned (and continue to learn) contradicts some of "pitching absolutes" that today's "gurus" are selling. These efforts resulted in a new way of looking at the pitching (and hitting) process. Our new system explains why different pitching styles are successful. Much of this information will become available on this web site over the next several months. So visit us often.

Training is still a long ways from being an exact science. There are general PRINCIPLES. No two athletes respond exactly the same way to the same training stimulus. Experience combined with the latest research is about the best we can do. It is important to keep an open mind and to have access to other professionals. I am fortunate to be associated with a number of people who possess a very high level of baseball and sports training knowledge (scouts, instructors, coaches, researchers and other manufacturers). As time goes on, you will get to meet them and they will expand their presence here.

SETPRO is not a mail order catalog house. SETPRO sells very specific sports training solutions. We only sell what we have tested and proven. We guarantee your satisfaction.

If you have questions, please contact us. People tell me once I get talking........ I can't stop!!!!

I hope you find your visit informative and enjoyable.

Paul Nyman

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