Softball Speed & Agility Training in Las Vegas

Softball speed plays out over short distances. A hitter has 60 feet to beat a throw to first, and an infielder has a fraction of a second to cover ground and set her feet. College coaches time those plays when they recruit.

Athlete 2.0 trains Las Vegas softball athletes for the speed, agility and rotational power the sport demands. Coach April Russell, a former Division 1 athlete with a B.S. in Exercise Science, measures each player with Universal Speed Rating and builds the program from those numbers.

At showcases and camps, coaches put a stopwatch on your home-to-first time, from contact to the bag. It gives them one speed number they can compare across the players they watch. Many college coaches treat a time under three seconds as a strong mark for a right-handed hitter, and left-handed slappers, who start moving toward first as they make contact, tend to run faster.

Home-to-first speed has three parts: the transition out of the swing, acceleration over the first few steps and reaching top speed before the bag. Many hitters lose time in the first part by finishing the swing and then starting to run. We train that transition from a batting stance, then build acceleration with short sprints and the lower-body strength behind them.

Slappers and right-handed hitters train different starts. A left-handed slapper takes her first steps toward the pitcher as she makes contact, so we coach the crossover out of the slap approach and the acceleration that follows. A right-handed hitter starts farther from first and finishes a full swing before she runs, so her work centers on a fast, balanced release out of the box.

Bat speed and throwing velocity share a source. Force starts at the ground, travels through the hips and trunk and finishes at the hands. A player with strong arms and weak hips hits the ball softer than a teammate who moves power through her whole body.

Our strength and performance program trains that chain. Athletes build lower-body strength, then learn to transfer it with rotational medicine ball throws and anti-rotation core work. We keep the lifting athletic and skip bodybuilding exercises that add size without adding bat speed.

An infielder's range starts with her first step. A player who reads the ball and gets moving a split second sooner turns a base hit into an out. That first step depends on a ready position that lets her push off in any direction and the leg strength to push hard.

We train lateral acceleration, crossover steps and short reactive drills where the athlete moves on a coach's cue or a live ball. Outfielders work on the same first-step speed plus longer sprints to run down balls in the gap.

Travel ball in Las Vegas runs close to year-round, and high school softball adds a spring season. Without a plan, players train hardest during tournament weekends and rest when they have time to improve. We map training to your calendar instead. Summer tournaments and college camps draw the most recruiting attention for Las Vegas softball players, so we plan speed blocks to peak for them.

Off-season blocks carry the heaviest strength work and the most sprint volume, because that is when you can recover from it. During the season we cut volume, keep the speed work sharp and schedule sessions away from tournament weekends so you compete fresh. Monthly memberships run two or three sessions a week with a three-month minimum, which is how long it takes to see measurable change.

Book a free softball speed and agility assessment to get your baseline numbers. Our speed and agility training guide explains how the program works, and baseball players can read about baseball speed training.