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For many years baseball players have been using donuts or heavy bats with the thought that this increases how fast they can swing. We now know through biomechanical research that this actually makes the body rotate and move slower! Overspeed training works in a different, in fact, opposite way from a donut or heavy bat. Here are the scientific facts: Whenever our body performs a movement such as swinging a bat, this movement is controlled by a motor program in our brain. This motor program drives the muscles of our body to make the motion in a very precise and specific order. This motor program also has a "normal" speed at which this neuromuscular response (brain to muscle) will take place. By reducing the weight of the bat just enough, we are able to increase the neuromuscular response speed of the batting motion by as much as 20%. Then by increasing the bat weight during the close proximity of swings in our training protocols, we are able to reset the "normal" response time to one that is significantly faster and more powerful. Our Team Leaders