CALLING ALL BASEBALL & SOFTBALL PERFORMANCE COACHES…

pedulla performance presents:

THE PRAGMATIC PRINCIPLES mentorship

12 Modules Compiling 15+ Hours of Content Covering the Core Principles and Strategies that Drive Elite and Effective Baseball & Softball Performance Training and Coaching…

Constructed from Real World Experience and Thousands of Hours on the Floor Accumulated Within the Highest Levels of American Baseball & Softball.

LAUNCHING JUNE 9th 2025, ON SALE NOW AT AN EARLY BIRD RATE

elite level performance education for baseball & softball coaches

Baseball & Softball Strength & Conditioning is a tall task. Condensed competition schedules, frequent travel, stress and load management, and adapting programs to the individual needs of athletes across large rosters all pose significant challenges.

These issues, as well as such little time with your athletes, can make detraining, injury, and poor performance a greater likelihood. How can you maximize the quality of your training sessions and truly impact player development under so many constraints?

The Pragmatic Principles Mentorship answers this question for baseball & softball strength & conditioning coaches, breaking down the most critical aspects of baseball & softball athletic development, geared towards creating elite level performance, strategic stress and load management, and reduced injury risk.

“Pragmatic Principles,” themselves deal with the practical considerations of high performance training environments. This course sets itself apart, teaching in-the-trenches skills instead of methods and theories which may lack transferability to the real world.

Pragmatic Principles helps you take out the trash by taking a unique approach, using philosophy, heuristics, pragmatics, real world results, and examples to help you focus on what counts. Equipping you with the understanding I acquired and refined in some of the most volatile, elite, and unpredictable training environments, you will become a core asset to your program or organization, confronting the daily challenges posed by baseball & softball development, keeping athletes on the field and performing at a high level.

What’s included?

Lifetime access to 12 modules of content delivered live

  1. Defining Elite Strength & Conditioning & Earning Trust

  2. Referring to the Real World & The Minimal Effective Dose - Understanding Volume

  3. Push vs. Pull Programs & Type 1 vs. Type 2 Errors

  4. “Good Enough” vs. “Optimal” Programming: Utilizing Autoregulation & VBT

  5. Becoming a Generalist & Essentialist & The High - Low Model

  6. Speed is King & The Short to Long Speed Development Model

  7. Skill is the Separator: Creating Real Dynamic Correspondence

  8. Making Warmups Better & Understanding Power

  9. Player Monitoring, Archetyping & individualization

  10. Chaos in Sport & Periodization Don’t Work Together

  11. Avoiding Accommodation - Redundancy, Junk Volume & Leveraging Exercise Novelty

  12. Exposure, Tolerance, Micro - Dosing

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  • Exclusive Lectures & Additional Educational Content

  • Community with 100+ Likeminded Coaches

  • Ability to Ask Me Questions & Receive Personal Guidance with Your Programming & Coaching

  • Get to Know Me & Get Help Finding Your Next Professional Opportunity

  • Monthly Q&As on Zoom

  • Be the FIRST to Hear About Promotions, Blogs, Deals

  • Receive Exclusive Membership Discount Codes on ALL Future Products

Mentorship breakdown: quarter 1

Module 3: PUSH vs. PULL programs & Type 1 vs. Type 2 Errors

  • Learn when to push forward and pull back in training

  • Maximize Type 1 Errors (doing too little, but having room to add) in relation to Type 2 Errors (overload / overreaching / overtraining)

  • Appropriately add or subtract load and stimulus based on training response rates and other factors

  • See how load management isn’t always about removing things; it can also be about adding more

Module 2: Referring to the Real World & The Minimal “Effective” Dose - Understanding Volume

  • Take a phenomenological approach that uses experience and to guide future decisions

  • Let research inform you…let the real world guide you

  • Understand volume, how to progress it, and its value at different times of the training year

  • Learn where the Minimal Effective Dose can hurt more than it can help

Module 1: Defining Elite Strength & Conditioning & Earning Trust

  • Defining “effective” baseball & softball strength & conditioning

  • Tailor your goals properly to your setting and situation

  • Adopt the core tenets that build buy-in and trust with athletes and fellow staff

  • Learn to use pragmatics and philosophy to change your coaching outlook

“Joe Pedulla’s Pragmatic Principles course is a masterclass in simplifying complexity. He has an elite ability to break down intricate topics into their most fundamental components, both anatomically and physiologically. What sets this course apart is how he goes beyond surface-level understanding, diving into the deeper principles and inner workings that drive real-world application. His approach is so thorough.”

- Hunter Lakey, Strength & Conditioning Coach, Georgia Southern University Baseball

Mentorship breakdown: quarter 2

Module 4: “Good Enough” vs. “Optimal” Programming: Utilizing Autoregulation & VBT

  • Discard the “optimal” program mindset. Learn and adopt the “good enough” approach

  • Navigate volatile and everchanging baseball & softball competition schedules

  • Create robust, not perfect, programming

  • Use tools like RIR, VBT & bar velocity, RPE & percentage drop-offs to autoregulate training

  • Learn my “4 Tier” load prescription system

Module 5: Becoming a Generalist & Essentialist & The High - Low Model

  • Avoid the trap of modern “sport specificity”

  • Prioritize general physical preparedness (GPP) over hyper-specification

  • Walk through several real world examples and considerations of High - Low Model application

  • Properly allocate and time training stressors to reap positive adaptations

  • Explore numerous ways to structure a morphocycle of training for both position players and pitchers

Module 6: Speed is King & The Short to Long Speed Development Model

  • Master the art of training speed in tandem with weight training and the on-field phase/season all year long

  • Go step by step through sprint, plyometric, jump, and medicine ball throw progressions

  • Ensure safe progression and elite speed development

  • Apply the Short to Long Speed Model to develop sprint mechanics and enhance player health

“If Pragmatic Principles was a class at my college, I would beg my advisor to be in it. The way everything is explained to a tee, while challenging us to think in real life scenarios with our athletes is phenomenal.”

- Albino Neto, Strength & Conditioning Intern, Texas Christian University Baseball

Mentorship breakdown: quarter 3

Module 7: Skill is the Separator: Creating Real Dynamic Correspondence

  • Understand how Dynamic Correspondence is largely misinterpreted when creating transfer to baseball & softball

  • Expand your lens and see how transfer is not limited to physical ability

  • Stop creating “transfer” through things that simply look like rotational sport

  • Dive into position demands, and how to support these in the weight room

  • Become familiar with archetyping athletes to train them more effectively given their needs

Module 8: Making Warmups Better & Understanding Power

  • Use warmups to create adaptable athletes

  • Use warmups for skill development

  • Understand what power really is and how to train it

  • See why “surfing the force velocity curve'“ is nonsense

  • Uncover how coaches are training “power” the wrong way

  • Learn the neurological mechanisms that drive speed and athleticism

Module 9: Player Monitoring, Archetyping & individualization

  • Bucket your athletes using various models like anthropometrics, force plates, movement preferences, positional demands, and training age

  • Get full clarity on how to categorize athletes and individualize within large groups, reducing the stress associated with several moving parts in a session

  • Use force plates to understand your athletes and design training programs around them, no longer forcing them into an arbitrary training style

  • Interpret force plate data like a professional in a whole new way

“Absolutely incredible content. I feel so equipped, and this will for sure help me as I enter my first year with a program.”

- Mason Madalinski, Strength & Conditioning Coach, Dallas Baptist University Baseball

Mentorship breakdown: quarter 4

Module 10: Chaos in Sport & Periodization Don’t Work Together

  • Adapt and adjust on the fly no matter the circumstance…from scheduling changes, to equipment availability, and athlete readiness

  • Anticipate unpredictability and a lack of training structure within baseball & softball scheduling

  • Mold modified periodization styles to your situation

  • Acquire extremely important skills to create robust programs that seamlessly flow

  • Accomplish more in less time. No more time crunching!

Module 11: Avoiding Accommodation - Redundancy, Junk Volume & Leveraging Exercise Novelty

  • Remove fluff from your programs like excessive volume and exercises

  • Reduce unnecessary energy and opportunity cost

  • Avoid redundant exercises and stimuli in a day or week of training

  • Begin looking at the sport differently: as part of our training program

  • Leverage exercise novelty to avoid accommodation and staleness

  • Introduce novelty at the right times

Module 12: Exposure, Tolerance, Micro - Dosing

  • Condition athletes for sport through graded exposure, eventually tolerating higher doses of activity

  • Master micro-dosing to continue making progress on a busy schedule. Say goodbye to the feeling of undertraining your athletes

  • Employ a frequency (a little training spread across several days) based program rather than a saturation (lots of training in one day) based program (Jovanovic)

  • Help athletes recover better

  • Micro-dose speed development to retain speed adaptations and avoid soft tissue injury. YES, you can sprint safely in-season!

“I was looking for a course to help me gain practical knowledge. This course by Coach Pedulla is an excellent resource filled with professional experience, studied literature, evidence-based results, and carefully formulated opinions.”

- Olivia Szylar, Tennessee Tech Sports Performance

PRICING & INFO

WHEN?

This mentorship will be held live every Monday night starting on June 9th, 2025. The mentorship will run for 12 weeks straight. Can’t join live? No problem. All sessions will be uploaded for playback at your leisure!

WHERE?

Links to the live sessions can be found in the course under that week’s lesson tab. They will also be emailed to course members weekly. Uploaded lectures can be found in that week’s lesson tab as well.

ENROLL IN PRAGMATIC PRINCIPLES FOR an early bird rate of $427 HERE!

VALUED AT $797

CURRENTLY ON SALE FOR $797 $427

Frequently asked questions

  • Sessions will be held every Monday night beginning on June 9th through August 25th this Summer of 2025.

  • All sessions will be uploaded the day after they are held live in full so that you can work your way through the course at your leisure.

  • When you enroll in the mentorship, you will be taken to a thank you page with a link to our discord. If you lose the link, please email me at joe.pedulla@pedullaperformance.com for help!