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Joe Hudson

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

they're in that prime window of really being able to take advantage of the age and where their physical stature is in the current moment.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

I don't know if I can name anyone in particular that stands out, just because that's kind of what our expectation is, particularly in the minor leagues, too, is...

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

you want to make a strong push to, like, put yourself at the front of the pack, like, you physically change yourself, you know.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

And that's a great point.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

You add a bunch of weight.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

Like, you add a bunch of strength.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

And, you know, that's the expectation at the big league level is that, like, you're closer to that physical ceiling already.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

So making, like, huge, huge gains, like, don't happen as often.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

But definitely in the minor leagues, like, guys –

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

come in and they're you know 20 pounds heavier and you know 18 of it's like just muscle and all of a sudden they're hitting the ball way harder and you see those stories happen a lot more and that's what we want to have like for our minor league guys is to put in that that body of work in the offseason that really turns some heads um and i think for guys like

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

Yeah, a lot of it's kind of dependent on the player and what their, you know, what their bodies kind of adapt to throughout, you know, throughout the season and throughout, you know, what they do in the offseason.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

But for me, a lot of it is, you know, I wouldn't say stretching in particular, I would say more like mobility work, right?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

So...

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

you know, essentially like lubing up the joints and making sure everything is, you know, moving the way it's supposed to, rotating the way it's supposed to, contracting and relaxing.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

For me, a lot of that's based around like the pelvis and the trunk, right?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

So everything's really kind of starting from your hips and your pelvis in that core and then obviously being

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

you know, the rotational sport that we have, like having freedom to be able to rotate, um, both in your, in your hips and in your trunk T spine is, is super important.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

Um, and really you just want to be able to provide like the, the normal range of motion and freedom to move that that guy has.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

Um,

Baseball Isn’t Boring
Best Shape Of My Life Club: Red Sox Strength And Conditioning Coach Joe Hudson

you know, to kind of mitigate those soft tissue injuries that happen, right?