Episode 10 Season 3 is out with Alex Simone. Alex is the owner of Simone Baseball Performance and an Assistant coach for the Orleans Firebirds in the Cape Code League. A 2010 Major League Baseball draft pick of the Milwaukee Brewers out of high school, Alex elected to attend college, playing four years of at the University of West Alabama and LaRoche College. Alex is well known for his content on social media that has reached out to high school, high school, and pro baseball players all around the country.

Alex talks about life after baseball and how that he knew exactly what he wanted to do. He loved to train and loved training athletes. He started with just one or two clients after playing and put 100% into them, one of them getting drafted a couple years later.

Alex decided he wanted to intern at Cressey Sports Performance. He talks about his experience during that time and how much it helped him along the way. Alex and I commented during this time about our first experiences interning at a strength and conditioning facility and Im glad I wasn’t the only person completely lost on their first day of work.

Alex currently is training baseball players at a high level and puts out amazing content on social media and his website. He talks about his overall goal is to just help as many athletes as he can and taking a selfless way of looking at his growth over the past couple years.

Alex is steering the way for many trainers in baseball and how to use social media as a tool to put out the best possible info and by putting it out for free.

Topics:

• Cape strength coach and then cape assistant coach
• Background?
• Played college baseball at west Alabama and LaRoche college and drafted in the 49th round by the Milwaukee Brewers
• Worked at Cressey Sports Performance… Experience
• Starting Simone Baseball Performance
• How?
• Process?
• In Season Progress in the Cape
  • Huge advantage for your team in this aspect? First week for a player on the firebirds?
  • How do you eval your guys and transitioning from college S/C programs
  • By position? There is always an interesting conversation towards this
  • Your progression through the summer and when do you feel you should be adding isometrics?
• Best advice for starting a baseball specific s/c?