About 
Primal 1 Baseball

The Mindset

We promote the importance of a positive mental attitude through each training session. This is the most essential factor that will allow you to reach your goals. Each time you train with us, we want to instill the message that you CAN become better and your goals are obtainable as long as you stay focused and consistent. We want to help you succeed. We have worked with athletes at every level of baseball, and each player's journey is unique. We will meet you where you are. Our coaches love helping others get better. We believe that coaches are educators, and we hope to share our knowledge and our way of thinking with you. 

The Science

We use science to create our programs. In our approach to designing your program, years of research and studying have been gone into developing the systems. Our assessments are used by some of the leading health professionals in the sports perfermance industry. The science behind our program includes appreciation for posture, movement kinematics, neuromuscular control and perception, polyarticular chains of muscle, force production, acute variables, dynamical systems approach to training and more to ensure that you reach your goals. Some of the tools that we use to assist our approach are: 

The Approach

Performance Training

In our approach to helping you reach your athletic goals, we focus on making you stronger, more explosive, and more mobile. Additionally, we focus on training that transfer. In our training, athletes will explore all 3 planes of motion using a joint-by-joint approach. The joint-by-joint approach consists of appreciating the human structure as alternating segments of stable and mobile joints. When one joint alters its main structural quality, either mobile or stabile, other joints up and downstream will compensate to make up for that imbalance. Additionally, we focus on variability training. Variability training uses implements such as water bags as strength implements to challenge an athlete's body to develop stability while generating strength. This approach allows for an athlete to become more explosive while developing a stronger core and more stable joints simultaneously. This is paramount to human performance and injury prevention. Lastly, we focus on full-body workouts that spread out the overall volume of training for each body part throughout the week. This improves an athlete's ability to see the same gains while reducing overall soreness, which will allow the athlete to show more continuity in their skills training.

Skills Training

In our approach to your skill acquisition training, our goal is to use the latest research in motor learning and control. The primary system when used is Dynamical Systems Theory. Dynamical Systems is a training approach that appreciates the complex nature of the interactions between the player, the task, and the environment in which they are performing. The player presents complexity through their individualistic characteristics that are present through genetics, injuries, habits, upbringing, etc. The task of baseball is complex in that there are infinite variations situationally. This means that the game will present ever-changing problems that need solutions, and it is our job to learn how to be adaptable. The environment, similar to the task presents its own obstacles that add to the variability in the dynamic interactions between elements. It is our job as coaches to develop problems for our athletes to overcome increasing their adaptability. We do this by varying the task (bats, balls, pitch angles, speeds) or adding constraints to guide the athlete into advantageous movements. The overarching goal is to promote the athlete to learn implicitly rather than explicitly. To put it in more simple terms, we want the athletes to learn from their experiences and environments constructed by the coach as opposed to the words that are spoken.