The Kid's Baseball Workout

by Jeffrey B. Fuerst

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• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761323074
• ISBN13: 9780761323075
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Millbrook Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

What a Workout

This book provides a wonderful way for kids who like baseball to get even more into the game. My nine-year-old son and I read the book together, picked out a few of the excellent exercises, and then went to the park with one of his teammates to try them out. We had a blast.The book is chock-full of good information told in a humorous, friendly fashion. I've ordered a copy to give to my son's coach so he can share the tips with the rest of the team.

The Kids' Baseball Workout

I didn't think that the words "kids," "workout" and "fun" could ever be used together, but this book does it! That it has to do with baseball helps a lot. It's really a smart exercise-type book wrapped inside a fun baseball book. My son isn't the best player, but he loves baseball. He's also not the best player because he's not in such good shape. This book helps explain (so I don't have to, endlessly) why exercising, stretching, and general conditioning are important. Because it's about baseball, he listens!The book gives a few dozen solid stretches to do before and after a general workout. The author makes them seems fun by giving the stretches fun names. The cute illustrations that go with a lot of the exercises help -- they are somuch more inviting than those scrawny schematic drawings in adult books. By the way: Adults could learn a lot from this book, too. It explains the whys and hows of exercising in terms anyone can understand and appreciate.But enough about exercising. Let's talk baseball. That's the real reason to get this book. It makes practicing fun. And you can learn tings. I never knew that hitting and throwing and running after a white ball could be so complicated. The book discusses why you need to exercise specific parts of the body to get better and how they all work together when playing. In that manner, it is sport-specific. But it's also a great general workout that will motivate kids who like to play, but not sweat a lot, to go out there and, as the author says, "Go for it!."

The Kids' Baseball Workout

Where was this great book when I was a kid! It's jam-packed with fun information I (or the 10-year-old still inside me) could use to not only become a better baseball player, but a stronger, faster, and smarter one, too. I loved that kids don't need to be on a team or even a ballfield directed by a coach to have fun doing semi-advanced skill-building drills (such as soft toss). But I also liked that I (and the 10-year-old still inside me) could use this book with my own kid(s) in our own backyard! Not only that, it makes general exercising (ugh!) and conditioning fun AND important because it breaks down activities and why you should do them into baseball-related functions: throwing, running, hitting for average, hitting for power, and fielding.I think this book is a good addition to the serious (and serious about fun) baseball-player's library. It's got good tips for coachs and kids and it's a blessing-in-disguise for parents of serios players who are not such serious students of the game.