How Individualized Coaching Helped Transform Nick Lorusso's Career
See how understanding one athlete's natural movement helped reshape the coaching approach — and contributed to a dramatic change in performance.
.294 → .351 AVG
5 → 41 HR
.391 → .665 SLG
What if the coaching solution doesn't fit the athlete?
Nick Lorusso had always been a talented hitter.
But like many athletes, much of his development had been built around traditional hitting solutions — including an emphasis on loading deeper into his legs and backside.
The question became:
Did that solution actually fit how Nick naturally moved?
Understanding Nick's Motor Preferences provided another layer of information.
Rather than trying to organize his movement around a predetermined model, the coaching approach began with understanding where Nick naturally found balance and building solutions around the individual athlete.
What You'll Find Inside
In this Player Spotlight you'll discover:
✓ The coaching challenge Nick faced early in his career
✓ How understanding his natural movement changed the conversation
✓ Why balance became an important part of his development
✓ How the coaching solution became more individualized
✓ The performance progression that followed
The Change Started With Balance
The goal wasn't to create a completely different hitter.
It was to better understand how Nick naturally organized movement and use that information to guide the coaching process.
Instead of continuing to emphasize loading deeper into his legs and backside, the approach began with where Nick naturally found balance.
From there, drills, constraints and coaching solutions could be built around the athlete rather than asking the athlete to continually adapt to the solution.
“Understanding how I was built to move changed my career.”
The Change Started With Balance
The goal wasn't to create a completely different hitter.
It was to better understand how Nick naturally organized movement and use that information to guide the coaching process.
Instead of continuing to emphasize loading deeper into his legs and backside, the approach began with where Nick naturally found balance.
From there, drills, constraints and coaching solutions could be built around the athlete rather than asking the athlete to continually adapt to the solution.
“Understanding how I was built to move changed my career.”
Ready to Apply This With Your Own Athletes?
Reading how individualized development impacted one athlete is one thing.
Learning how to understand and apply those principles with your own athletes is another.
The Level 1 Baseball & Softball Course teaches coaches how to understand Motor Preferences and apply the framework to skill development, training, communication and coaching decisions.
See Athletes Differently. Develop Them Individually.