Hitting weighted baseball enhances the experience of bat-ball contacts

Bat-ball contacts are critical in the baseball hitting process. However, an effective training method for increasing the impact perception of a bat-ball contact is currently unavailable. Although not widely used, hitting a stationary weighted baseball can be an appropriate method for batters to simu...

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Published in:Sports biomechanics 2024-06, Vol.23 (6), p.728-739
Main Authors: Yang, Wen-Wen, Liu, Ya-Chen, Chen, Wei-Han, Tai, Hsing-Hao, Sato, Kimitake, Ma, Hsi-Pin, Liu, Chiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Athletic Performance - physiology
Baseball
Baseball - physiology
batter
Biomechanical Phenomena
Electromyography
Forearm
Forearm - physiology
Humans
Male
Movement - physiology
Muscle contraction
Muscle, Skeletal - physiology
overweight ball
Perception
Sports Equipment
swing
training
Velocity
Vibration
Wrist
Wrist - physiology
Young Adult
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Summary:Bat-ball contacts are critical in the baseball hitting process. However, an effective training method for increasing the impact perception of a bat-ball contact is currently unavailable. Although not widely used, hitting a stationary weighted baseball can be an appropriate method for batters to simulate the perception of hitting a moving baseball. Therefore, swing velocity, wrist vibration, and forearm muscle activation for hitting stationary weighted, stationary regulation, and pitched baseballs were investigated in this study. Twelve position players hit a stationary weighted, stationary regulation, and pitched baseball at a speed of 70.28 ± 3.84 km/h in a random order. The swing velocity, wrist vibration, forearm muscle activation, and co-contraction ratio during hitting phases were analysed. The results indicated that the swing velocity during each specific phase demonstrated no significant differences between the different conditions. Hitting weighted and pitched baseballs caused higher wrist vibration, muscle activation, and co-contraction ratio during the contact phase than hitting regulation balls (p
ISSN:1476-3141
1752-6116
DOI:10.1080/14763141.2021.1890196