High School Winter Hitting

Prepare for the upcoming season with our intensive winter hitting program, designed to sharpen your skills and improve your power at the plate. Join us this winter to stay ahead of the competition and elevate your game!

2024/2025 High School Winter Hitting and Training Program

All classes will still include one hour of hitting and one hour of athletic training. The hitting classes are upstairs in the batting cages. The participants are broken up in to small groups in the batting cages. You have the option to register for one or two days a week of training. The class will go for 18 weeks.

Some things that the Hitters Baseball Academy staff covers throughout the winter.

Swing plane and how to properly use the tee to maximize your ability to coach yourself.
Stride and Separation with hands and front foot to create some rhythm in your swing.
Vision and how to use your front side to track the baseball to the hitting zone.
Breaking ball hitting
Working on slowing the ball down mentally
How to properly use the weight room for baseball funtionality
To realize the importance of taking care of your body and staying in shape so you can be at your best mentally throughout the season.

When: Starts Monday, November 4th, 2024 and ends Thursday, March 6th, 2025

Ages: 8th grade through 12th grade – High School Athletes.

Instructors: RJ Fergus, Max Widmar, Tim Schultz, and the rest of the Hitters Staff .

Athletes per Class: Most classes will have no more than 20 athletes per class

Options for One or Two days a week

	15U	15U
Options	Monday and/or Wednesday	Tuesday and/orThursday
	4-6pm Monday AND/OR Wednesday	4-6pm Tuesday AND/OR Thursday
	7-9pm AND/OR Wednesday	5-7pm Tuesday AND/OR Thursday
		6-8pm Tuesday AND/OR Thursday

Pricing Program

	15U	16U	17U
Two - Days a Week	$1,300	if paid in full by	October 1st
	$1,400	if paid in full by	November 1st
	$1,500	if paid in full	After November 1st (first day of class)
	$1,600	Payment Plan**	First Payment Due Oct. 1st.

One Day a Week	$850	if paid in full by	October 1st
	$900	if paid in full by	November 1st
	$950	if paid in full	After November 1st (first day of class)
	$1000	Payment Plan**

Payment plan for 2 day a week option for a total of $1600:

$600 due by October 1st or when registration is completed if after October 1st

$500 due January 1st

$500 due February 15th

Payment plan for 1 day a week option for a total of $1000

$400 due October 1st or when registration is completed if after October 1st

$300 due January 1st

$300 due February 15th

Payment Plan:

If you do not have the program paid in full by November 1st (or the first day of class) we will assume that you are choosing the payment plan.

The first payment of $400/1 day or $600/2 day option is due October 1st to secure your son’s spot in the class. By Jan. 1, you must have the 2nd payment made which equals 2/3 of the cost of the class. By Feb. 15, you must have the 3rd and final payment made which equals 100% of the cost paid. You may pay in as many small increments as you wish following the above guidelines. Please call and ask if there are any questions. We are flexible as long as the payments are made.

Winter Camp Make-up Days: As usual holidays fall on some of the training days. The holidays that we cancel classes for can be found on our make-up day page on the front of website. Please pay close attention to those days because on some holidays only the hours have changed – not the actual date of the class.

Details: The High School Winter Hitting program is the same program as we have always had with an hour of hitting with our coaches to start and finish with an hour of strength training. As we get deeper into the winter and into the spring we aim to put the athlete at peak performance for their high school season. RJ and his staff have been providing the best combination of baseball mechanics and strength for many years in southeastern Wisconsin.

Some things that the Hitters Baseball Academy staff covers throughout the winter

1. Swing plane and how to properly use the tee to maximize your ability to coach yourself.

2. Stride and Separation with hands and front foot to create some rhythm in your swing.

3. Vision and how to use your front side to track the baseball to the hitting zone.

4. Breaking ball hitting

5. Working on slowing the ball down mentally

6. How to properly use the weight room for baseball funtionality

7. To realize the importance of taking care of your body and staying in shape so you can be at your best mentally throughout the season.

Focus 1

The Athletic Power Development (APD) component will build functional strength for greater sport performance through a neuromuscular training philosophy based on training movement, not muscle. APD is about building athletic movement, linked system strength, power, transitional balance, neuromuscular coordination, mind-muscle integration, and sequential muscle firing from the inside out. Coaches will identify and train up weak links in the kinetic chain, build core stability & strength, increase joint mobility & stability, and build full-body integrated strength.

Focus 2

The Speed, Agility and Quickness (SAQ) component focuses on three of the most important physical components for athleticism. The SAQ program will teach you how to move more efficiently through postural correction, biomechanical analysis and movement skill patterning. Once a foundation of movement is built athletes will focus on increasing their first step quickness, deceleration, explosive speed, reactivity and multi-directional movement skills. Become a quicker, faster and more reactive athlete with SAQ training methods.

Other Details and Information:

Injury prevention is a big part of becoming a elite athlete.

Pre and Post workout recovery and nutrition is an important part of helping your body work at full potential.