How to Follow Your Bat Speed Program

Open it from your portal home screen

If Marcus has put you on an off-season program, a card appears on your player portal home screen with the program’s name on it. Tap it. If you do not see this card, you are not on a program — there is nothing to buy and nothing to sign up for, so ask Marcus.

The ladder shows the whole twelve weeks

Green weeks are finished, the gold one is where you are now, and the grey ones are ahead. You can tap any week to move yourself there.

This week, and how many days you have done

The week you are on, how many swings a session is worth this week, and your days so far against the range for that week. Week 1 asks for 2–3 days; the later weeks go up to 3–5.

Nothing here runs on a calendar. A new week does not start because a Monday arrived — it starts when you have logged the sessions.

Your drills for the week, tee first then front toss

The drills in the order the program runs them, with the bats beside each one. Every drill is done once with each bat shown.

The rep counts are on the screen now. Every drill row shows how many swings to take with each bat, and a drill marked ×2 means two sets of that — the same numbers printed in your pages. What the app still does not have is what each drill is. If you do not know a drill, ask Marcus rather than guessing at it.

Tap a drill for notes and a video

Each drill opens onto a short description and a video link. Marcus is still filling those in — where he has not yet, it says so plainly instead of making something up.

Log the session when you have done it

I did this session records a full session at this week’s swing count. I did part of it is for when you got partway: it still counts as a day, it just does not count the full swings. The note box above them is optional — use it for anything worth remembering, and it shows next to that session in your log. Tapped the wrong one? An Undo appears for the rest of the day.

Be honest with it. Nobody can check a tap — this is your own record of the work you say you did, and it is only worth anything if it is true. That is exactly why the “part of it” button exists.

The week moves on when you have done the days

Once you hit the minimum days for the week, a button appears offering to finish it and start the next one. Once you hit the maximum, it moves on by itself. You can also jump forward by tapping a week on the ladder — but a week you skip past without finishing is marked on your ladder, and Marcus sees it.

Your log, and your running total

Every session you have logged, newest first, with the swing count it was logged at and any note you left. The total counts full sessions only, since nobody knows how much of a part session got done.

If Marcus moves you to the other version of the program, nothing you have already logged changes. Old sessions keep the number they were logged at; only sessions from then on use the new one.

The four bats

The chips on each drill row are the bats. On Bat Speed w/o underload the blue U never appears — that version is the same twelve weeks with the underload bat’s swings taken out.