Tracy Hayes
Meet Tracy Hayes, our Yoga, Pilates, + Mobility expert contributor!
I’m so happy to be a part of Our Baseball Life’s amazing baseball family and am grateful for the opportunity to help others feel and move stronger.
I’ve been in the fitness industry for over 20 years, working specifically with athletes for nearly 15 yrs when I stumbled into professional baseball because of my husband’s career. We were with the Royals up until 2010 (I think!) and this is where I was first to introduce yoga to the team during spring training.
Over the years, I’ve fine-tuned specialized classes aiming to improve kinematic sequencing through neuromuscular training designed to improve pro athletes' mobility.
My “signature class” combines the foundations of physical therapy-based functional yoga (LYT), classical Pilates, Functional Range Conditioning methodologies, Postural Restoration Institute teachings, positive mindset language, visualizations, and breathing techniques.
In these classes, we focus on building up from developmental sequences to improving active end-range strength, proprioception and balance, proper positioning for efficient diaphragmatic breathing, and an overall advancement in better mobility. My approach to teaching is a synergistic combination concentrating on the biomechanics of muscles working more efficiently to help players improve explosive movements, power, and swinging/pitching motions.
This is all fancy language for balancing inefficiencies and improving poor movement patterns to help someone move better, feel better and excel in performance. My classes aren’t quite the type of yoga like you’d see in a studio, in my opinion, not everything you see in a traditional yoga class is appropriate for pro-baseball players.
I’ve got a host of certifications ranging from 700 hours of specialized functional yoga training to a FRC Mobility Specialist certification, Kinstretch, Pilates (I published a Pilates manual!), functional training, and too many more to list. I love what I do and am always learning.
Oh and more about me - and most importantly, I’m a mama to 4 little kiddos! I am one of those “hot-mess” moms, totally going out un-showered, late to everything, and brain working on little to no sleep - I figure I’ll just fake it ’til I make it as a mom and hope to God everyone is alive at the end of the day. :)
If you’ve got any mobility or yoga questions or are interested in hearing about programs for athletes, shoot me a message on one of these places:
IG: https://instagram.com/yoga_tracy
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amplifiedmove