Keiser A Focal Point of Spring Training

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Throughout Arizona and Florida professional baseball is emerging from its winter hibernation to begin preparations for the 2012 season. Away from the adoring fans and glare of camera lights those preparations include intense work in team weight rooms with much of it being done on Keiser equipment.

“Keiser is the best stuff for baseball,” remarked Tampa Bay Rays strength coach Kevin Barr, one of twenty-three Major League strength coaches to utilize the Fresno, California made equipment in his teams regimen.

Baseball has made Herculean leaps from the days in which strength training was frowned upon. In 2012 the Baltimore Orioles unveiled the game’s first all-Keiser weight room. Under the tutelage of Dr. Marcus Elliott the Seattle Mariners have adopted a functional training methodology built around Keiser’s Infinity Series products. By opening day a predominantly Keiser weight room will be installed in Dodger Stadium.

During the days leading up to the opening of spring training camps Keiser’s Director of Global Performance, Research and Marketing, Randy Huntington, visited several Keiser customers such as St Louis Cardinals strength coach Pete Prinzi (photo) to review and discuss methodology and exchange ideas. During his visit to the Minnesota Twins facility, the team’s strength coach Perry Castellano lauded the impact of training with Keiser’s unique pneumatic resistance. “A skeptic told me it (the Keiser Runner) would be the least used piece of equipment in our weight room. It’s the most used piece of equipment here,” beamed Castellano.

Tampa Bay’s Kevin Barr summed up the growing trend of Keiser training. “This game is about rotational power. Nothing produces it like Keiser.”