{"id":16646,"date":"2022-04-29T08:54:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T13:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/?p=16646"},"modified":"2023-08-07T06:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T11:01:16","slug":"denzel-clarke-professional-baseball-strength-training-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/denzel-clarke-professional-baseball-strength-training-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Clarke &#8211; Professional Baseball Strength Training Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Denzel Clarke - Professional Baseball Strength Training Success\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eFKuyaZW374?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h1>Denzel Clarke &#8211; Professional Baseball Strength Training Success<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Chapter Overview:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>0:01 Who is Denzel Clarke<br \/>\n0:37 What are the benefits of playing variety of sports<br \/>\n1:24 How did Denzel hear about LPS<br \/>\n1:51 How did LPS help Denzel improve<br \/>\n2:22 How LPS stands out from other gyms<br \/>\n3:18 How is the term DOMINATE translates to Denzel<br \/>\n4:04 What advise Denzel wants to give to younger athletes<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15520\" src=\"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/denzel-clarke-signed-oakland-a.jpg\" alt=\"Denzel Clarke signing to Oakland A's\" width=\"900\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/denzel-clarke-signed-oakland-a-200x169.jpg 200w, https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/denzel-clarke-signed-oakland-a-400x337.jpg 400w, https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/denzel-clarke-signed-oakland-a-500x422.jpg 500w, https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/denzel-clarke-signed-oakland-a-600x506.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/denzel-clarke-signed-oakland-a-700x590.jpg 700w, https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/denzel-clarke-signed-oakland-a-768x648.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/denzel-clarke-signed-oakland-a-800x675.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/denzel-clarke-signed-oakland-a.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My name&#8217;s Denzel Clarke. I play baseball and I&#8217;m actually playing for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/athletics\">Oakland Athletics<\/a> right now.<\/p>\n<p>I always knew I wanted to do something in sports. I didn&#8217;t know I was gonna be baseball till I was around 16 years old, so I grew up playing soccer. I grew up volleyball, tennis, basketball, like I grew up playing almost everything.<\/p>\n<p>My first love was originally soccer, but I ended up getting like asthma and kind of pushed me out the game because I couldn&#8217;t keep up with the running and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>But I ended up clicking with baseball. I started playing around 10 and then when I reached 16, I think it was, I realized I really have a chance to like do something with this game, with this sport, and that&#8217;s like, that&#8217;s really when I was like, it&#8217;s time to like go all in with this.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like playing a lot of sports definitely helped my success in baseball grow because there&#8217;s so many things you can take from other sports.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll give you an example, in tennis, the footwork you need in tennis, like it translates so much to whether you&#8217;re playing on the infield or playing in the outfield, your feet always needs to be moving.<\/p>\n<p>And in tennis, if your feet stopped moving, you&#8217;re probably gonna lose the point. So that&#8217;s a big thing. My uncle played professional football in the CFL, so a lot of stuff we used to do when we were younger, just playing catch the football, just obviously cleans up the arm action and throwing a football. But just learning how to track a ball, track a football, like reading it out of the hand or, and in that case, it eventually translates to reading it off the bat. You&#8217;re gonna get good jumps, you know, how to like follow like the flight of the ball and everything. So that&#8217;s something that really, really helped.<\/p>\n<p>I heard about LPS. They actually reached out to me through Instagram. I think how old was I? I was probably like around 16 at the time and I wasn&#8217;t too big on like strength training at that time. So I kind of like my mom, she&#8217;s an Olympic athlete. So she&#8217;s kind of provided my base through a lot of my training and stuff. So I was time. I was like, I&#8217;m good right now. But then when I really need to take that next step, I reached back out to LPS and I&#8217;m like, I&#8217;m ready to take that next step. And I knew they could do it for me.<\/p>\n<p>Just results while I&#8217;ve been here at LPS in terms of just physically, I&#8217;ve put on a lot more weight, but it&#8217;s not just like any type of weight. It&#8217;s like good weight and it&#8217;s weight that I can, it&#8217;s weight that I can move with.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m faster, I&#8217;m stronger, I&#8217;m more powerful, and it really translates to baseball as well. My arms gotten a lot stronger, there&#8217;s a lot more carry on the baseball. When I throw, when I&#8217;m hitting the balls, coming off the bat a lot hotter, flying a lot farther. And then on the base paths too, I&#8217;m moving around the bases like I haven&#8217;t before. So it&#8217;s really been amazing.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between LPS and where it was before in any other gym I really just see is the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can&#8217;t be mediocre coming in here.<\/strong> Like nobody, nobody&#8217;s gonna allow you to. And it&#8217;s not even like the people wanna lie you to it&#8217;s the atmosphere. Like you just feel that as soon as you walk in the gym, like you can&#8217;t like give anything below a hundred percent when you&#8217;re in here, the athletes in here, everyone else is just a level calling you higher.<\/p>\n<p>Where was training before in regards to movements compared to LPS. LPS preaches <strong>full range of motion<\/strong> and making sure you maximize everything you&#8217;ve been given.<\/p>\n<p>Where I train it before, it&#8217;s like it&#8217;s teaching like not full range of motion, and one quote that really comes to mind when I think by LPS versus any other place, if you treat an athlete like glass, they&#8217;re gonna break.<\/p>\n<p>LPS really builds you up. They don&#8217;t treat you like glass. They train you and treat you to be a MONSTA versus other organizations and other environments I&#8217;ve been in they&#8217;re very tentative, but you can&#8217;t do that.<\/p>\n<h2>If you wanna be a beast, you gotta train like one.<\/h2>\n<p>The term <strong>DOMINATE<\/strong> as used in the gym and how it kinda like translates to me playing baseball and just even the culture in the gym. Like I said before, you can&#8217;t be mediocre when you come in this gym and it really, really wise their brain differently because there were times where I just like, kind of go through the motions and it was good enough, but to really dominate you, can&#8217;t go through the motions.<\/p>\n<p>You need to take your mind to a different level. And through the past year really while I&#8217;ve been at this gym, I&#8217;ve seen my, just mentally like is obviously strenuous physically, but the mental strain is creates a different type of like durability and endurance, even in baseball to know that I&#8217;ve done something more difficult than what I&#8217;m doing right now.<\/p>\n<p>And one piece of advice I&#8217;d like to give to myself, younger athletes, just play a lot of sports. It&#8217;s, it&#8217;s really beneficial in the long run because there&#8217;s so many things you can take from other sports and bring into whatever you end up choosing as your profession.<\/p>\n<p>And then find the right pieces of the puzzle. You need to make yourself better. And it&#8217;s obviously very difficult when you&#8217;re young, when you don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on. I had a lot of great guidance from my mom who made it to the top of the top of sports. So she&#8217;s able to guide me, but you need to find the right guidance and find great strength coaches, great therapists, it coaches for your specified sports. So that&#8217;s a big thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLzS44lV3OOk4OCdh5wXzWS1Rp3C2ipAkt\">Watch more of our success stories here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Denzel Clarke Featured in the News<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/denzel-clarke-keeps-hot-streak-in-double-a?partnerID=web_article-share\">A&#8217;s phenom started late, but is rising fast<\/a> &#8211; August 5th, 2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball.ca\/baseball-canada-announces-2023-world-baseball-classic-roster\">Baseball Canada announces 2023 World Baseball Classic roster<\/a> &#8211; February 9, 2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/2023-world-baseball-classic-top-prospects\">Here are the top prospects at the World Baseball Classic<\/a> &#8211; February 9, 2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/whitecleatbeat.com\/posts\/denzel-clarke-getting-ready-to-take-next-step-for-oakland-as\">Denzel Clarke getting ready to take next step for Oakland A&#8217;s<\/a> &#8211; January 29, 2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/2023-oakland-athletics-top-mlb-prospects\/\">2023 Oakland Athletics Top MLB Prospects<\/a> &#8211; January 4, 2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/3590877\/2022\/09\/15\/billy-owens-mason-miller-denzel-clarke-lawrence-butler\/\">A\u2019s assistant GM Billy Owens on Mason Miller, Denzel Clarke, the rebuild process<\/a> &#8211; September 15, 2022<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/a-s-prospect-denzel-clarke-hits-inside-the-park-homers-in-consecutive-games\">2 ITPHRs in 2 games? This A&#8217;s prospect did it<\/a> &#8211; August 4, 2022<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/baseball.ca\/denzel-clarke-named-to-american-league-roster-for-futures-game\">Denzel Clarke named to American League roster for Futures Game<\/a> &#8211; July 7, 2022<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/fantasy\/baseball\/news\/athletics-denzel-clarke-makes-jump-to-high-a-lansing\/\">Athletics&#8217; Denzel Clarke: Makes jump to High-A Lansing<\/a> &#8211; June 14, 2022<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/athleticsfarm.com\/2022\/04\/15\/thursday-april-14th-denzel-clarke\/\">Denzel Clarke Propels Ports To 1st Win<\/a> &#8211; April 14, 2022<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sundial.csun.edu\/165062\/sports\/denzel-clarke-drafted-by-oakland-athletics-in-2021-mlb-draft\/\">Denzel Clarke drafted by Oakland Athletics in 2021 MLB Draft<\/a> &#8211; July 12, 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denzel Clarke &#8211; Professional Baseball Strength Training Success Chapter Overview: 0:01 Who is Denzel Clarke 0:37 What are the benefits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16646"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17432,"href":"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16646\/revisions\/17432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lpsathletic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}