Where does power for hitting home runs come from?

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Matt Eiden · Answer

Hey James. Thanks for the question about where does power for hitting home runs? Come from, it's not an easy answer. There's a lot of things that factor into it, but some of the main things, I'll cover right now. You have to have strong, powerful legs and core in order to create Force into the ground and then transfer that Force, through your torso, into your arms, to your bat, and to the ball, when you hit it, in order to get it to go over the fence. So you have to have strong legs, explosive legs. A strong core, a well-positioned cord, so that you're not leaking any power. When you do rotate, you have to have good swing mechanics to. You have to be able to separate your hips and your shoulders. So you need good disassociation. You need a range of motion. Pretty much all the way up your body from your ankles, to your hips, to your ribs, to your shoulders, to get that good separation of your hips and shoulders. So you have to be able to kinematically sequence. Well, get your body to move properly. Have good swing mechanics and hopefully if you can put all these together and you have really good hand-eye coordination, to be able to square up a ball, and hit it at the right angle to use that power in force. You're creating to hit a homerun. So there's a lot that goes into it, there's more than I said right now, but hopefully some of those things you can dig deeper into and help you hit more home runs.

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"Where does power for hitting home runs come from?"