The Myth of the Grind

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2 The Myth of the Grind How to Get into Baseball and What to Expect When You Get There Rachel Balkovec, MS, CSCS, RSCC

3 Major League (On TV) AAA AA High A Low A Advanced Rookie Rookie Rookie Dominican

4 Keep this question in your back pocket What are some things that you have heard about professional baseball?...

5 THE HOW.

6 You Get Into Baseball in the Same Way That You Get Into Any Other Sport/Institution/Organization

7 Be Undeniable.

8 Being in The Right Place at the Right Time.

9 Omaha > Albuquerque

10 Albuquerque > Gulf Breeze

11 Gulf Breeze > Albuquerque

12 Albuquerque > Baton Rouge

13 Baton Rouge > West Palm Beach

14 WAIT! Are you thinking about the question??? What are some of the things you ve heard about working in professional baseball?

15 West Palm Beach > Johnson City

16 Johnson City > Santo Domingo

17 Santo Domingo > Phoenix

18 Phoenix > West Palm Beach

19 #BROKE

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21 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME.

22 It s About Putting Yourself in the Right Place ALL the Time.

23 BE UNDENIABLE.

24 I WORK HARD.

25 NOBODYCARES. WORK HARDER. Work for FREE Work for the BEST Work Anywhere in the World

26 THE VIRTUAL HANDSHAKE

27 # ONFLEEK Know Your Audience Aesthetically Pleasing Authenticity

28 #HEYWHASSUPHELLO Hello, I'm currently a student at University majoring in Exercise Science and Health Promotion. The St. Louis Cardinals facility is an interest to me as I begin my search for a internship location site. The internship will have to begin in Spring Please let me know what can be done to be a candidate to intern at this location. I've attached my resume and can also be contacted at. Thank You

29 #WHOISWHOM #THATISNOTMYNAME To whom it may concern, Good afternoon, I hope you are doing well. I am currently a student at Florida Atlantic University in the Exercise Science and Health Promotion program. I have taken notice that interning as a Strength and Conditioning Coach for the St. Louis Cardinals in Jupiter, FL is one of the possibilities of an internship site. I'm sending this because I am wondering if we could discuss the opportunity of interning with an excellent organization as the Cardinals and help in any way that I can to continue that excellence as well as improve it while building my own personal growth and knowledge of performance enhancement, biomechanics and periodization. I look forward to hearing back from you. Thank you for your time,

30 #FAIL Greetings, my name is I am an Exercise Science major undergrad over at. I am writing you today to inquire about a job opening here at Impact Sports Performance for the summer term, and also an Intern position for the upcoming Fall semester. I have attached a copy of my resume for you to review. I am in the process of studying for my CSCS degree with hopes of one day being a strength and conditioning coach for a MLB team. I have good experience with biomechanics, program design, and injury prevention techniques. I believe there is a link between injury prevention and sports performance, and strength training and conditioning goes handin hand with athletic training. My training philosophy is ground based multi joint movement patterns (clean, jerk, snatches, pulls) paired with traditional strength movements (squat, deadlift, presses), while concurrently addressing the specific metabolic demands of each sport. I aim to establish technique and mobility before overload. I stress the importance of having a stable base to work off of while stressing the importance of having a solid core. If any of these ideas are what you are looking for in a team member please contact me back at your earliest convenience. Thank your for you time and I look forward to speaking with you more.

31 #EPICFAIL hello my name is. I attend university. I look for an internship at your location in the fall. My phone number is

32 THE WHAT.

33 OK. TELL ME WHAT YOU VE HEARD ABOUT WORKING IN PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL.

34 Professional Baseball: It s a Grind.

35 Things that I ve Heard They re lazy Primadonna There is no team training It s all maintenance training It s a bad career choice It s a dead end It s not real strength and conditioning The Latin players don t want to do weight training

36 In The Words of A Great Scholar Forget What You ve Heard. DMX

37 Primadonna

38 They re Lazy

39 It s a Bad Career Choice

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41 30 50% of Professional Baseball is Made Up of International Players.

42 So, Let s Talk About the Latin Players For a Second They re Lazy They Don t Get It They re Dumb They re Bad Teammates They Don t Like to Train They Can t Learn

43 They Can t Learn

44 They Don t Get It.

45 They re Bad Teammates.

46 In the Words of Another Great Scholar They Say I ve got to Learn, But Nobody s Here to Teach Me. Coolio

47 REPEAT

48 The Field is What You Make It. Your Athletes Are What You Make Them. Baseball Is What We Say It Is.

49 And I say Baseball is not a grind. Strength and Conditioning is a grind. If you are not willing to put in the hours, get out of the field. NOW. Run for your life. If you don t want to get into baseball because of the challenges, we don t want you in the field to begin with.

50 WHY AM I IN BASEBALL? Some people want to sleep peacefully in a house that has been built for them. Other people Want to BUILD the House.

51 If You re Ready For a Challenge, Now is the BEST Time to Be in Baseball.

52 Reasons to Be In Baseball Chance to Impact the Field of Strength and Conditioning Chance to Impact Baseball (Training in the Off Season, Etc.) Opportunities for Growth Have a player for 10 years No Time Restraints, Academics, Etc. No NCAA Compliance, Period More time Around the Athletes 210 vs 108 days Travel Off Season Time Off

53 #1: Chance to Impact the Field. NEVER underestimate the power that you hold to change a team, a career field, a community or a generation.

54 IT STARTS HERE