Optimal Power Performance
Optimal Power Performance (OPP) started out as an experiment in 2015 for our founder’s personal baseball career. The experiment was to test different training methodologies and player development strategies on a surplus of athletes to see what strategies would work the best. Our founder Aj Arroyo, ended up collecting the data of hundreds of athletes during this process. At the time, he had no intentions of creating a baseball training company. He was just trying to figure out what works in the shortest amount of time possible. After his playing career ended in 2017, he decided to start coaching athletes full time. In 2019 he opened up our first baseball training facility in Tempe AZ. It was here where he realized he could do something big. In 2023 we expanded into our new location in Phoenix Arizona. We have worked with well over 2,000 baseball players from the High School level up to the MLB. Now, with our platform we are dedicated to showing the world how we provide this service and some of the lessons and failures along the way.
Episodes
14 episodes
#13 From Free Training To 7 Figure Baseball Business
Aj talks about scaling OPP and helping other Baseball/softball coaches and facility owners do the same.
#12 Does Your Coach Hate HLP? If So, Do This!
Full Video on our YouTube Channel - Aj breaks down how to deal with a coach who doesn't agree with what you're chasing as an athlete!
#11 Mental Side That Destroyed My Career
Aj breaks down his pitfalls in the mental game during his career! Great learning experience for athletes. Sound quality isn't amazing as this was recorded in the car.
#10 Dealing With Old School Coaches
In this episode Aj discusses how to deal with old school coaches who don't agree with your training methods in any aspect of your game.
#9 The Baseball Business
In this podcast Aj breaks down the Backwards framework to help coaches make better decisions when scaling their business.
#8 Risk to Reward Chasing Velocity
In this episode Aj breaks down the risk to reward with chasing Velocity at all levels of the game.
#7 Coaches Who Never Played
Many athletes are only seeking coaches who played at a high level. Although there are amazing coaches who never played doing great things for the baseball community. In this episode Aj talks about his experience as a coach and some of the strug...
#6 Lesson Paradigm
In this episode Aj discusses the fall of the lesson paradigm that athletes are consistently stuck in from a young age. He covers how athletes are actually negatively impacted in their career by only investing into lessons. He also covers it fro...
#5 Individualized Baseball Training
In this episode Aj discusses the fall backs of highly individualized training. This perspective is different than what most of the industry is pushing. But after years of testing and applying both perspectives with highly individualized program...
#4 Youth Training
In this episode Aj dives into the world of youth athletic development. He goes into detail about sport specificity and how it's damaging our youth. He also dives into the importance of playing multiple sports, building a quality foundation and ...
#3 Service First Approach In The Baseball Industry
In this Podcast Aj Discusses how he and his team at OPP have grown consistently every year. In that process he shares his observations on how other coaches could do it too. This simple approach could easily 10x their business if they take a Ser...
#2 Strong Enough?
Many people in the baseball industry believe that there is such thing as becoming "too strong" and that once you hit X, Y, Z numbers, you're "strong enough'"Aj Explains in this podcast how that is impossible. Using scientific literature...
#1 HLP Podcast w/Richard Schenk
Richard (aka teacherman) is a hitting pioneer who helped transform Aaron Judge's swing back in 2017. Since then, his hitting method called HLP has transformed thousands of baseball swings over the years. Yet, there is a lot of controversy about...