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Heavy Resistance Training Amplifies Endurance Performance for Pitchers

This is just one more of many case studies from the US National Library of Medicine – National Institutes of Health which proves that pitchers will benefit from heavy resistance training. Not only does heavy resistance training increase pitching velocity and reduce pitching injury but it also enhances endurance.

The Department of Physical Education, University of Illinois, Chicago put together a study to prove the Potential for strength and endurance training to amplify endurance performance. Here are the results from the study: Read more

3X Pitching and the Critical Ankle Kick

The majority of pitchers who commit to the 3X Pitching Velocity program initially struggle with the new motor coordination of triple extension and especially the critical ankle kick. The reason is because low velocity pitchers do not use this component effectively as the driving force behind their pitching velocity. An effective triple extension of the drive leg is the foundation of the power pitcher. To help those low velocity pitchers to understand this critical pitching velocity component, I will dive into the nuts and bolts of the critical ankle kick and the linear Force Vector.

They say a picture tells a thousand words and this animated clip of the leg drive of low velocity pitchers to high velocity pitchers says it all. You can obviously see the ankle extending through in the high velocity clips and the ankle just popping up in the low velocity clips. Read more

Study Proves Long Strides Increase Pitching Speeds

The mechanics of a power pitcher like with Aroldis Chapman, Trevor Bauer, Jason Motte or Tim Lincecum are very similar to the mechanics of Olympic Sprinters like Jeremy Wariner or Usain Bolt. You can learn more about this pitching speed theory in the article, The Phenomenon of Speed Mechanics.

The article talks about the importance of accelerating speed through the pitching delivery to increase pitching velocity. If speed is accelerated through the kinetic chain first as momentum and then converted into rotational forces, there is a strong possibility that a pitcher has reached his top velocity. The article talks about the theory of Speed Mechanics as extremely effective when used with the mechanics of 3X Pitching. Read more

Pitching Velocity Dynamics of Action to Reaction

The entire power pitching delivery is a series of dynamic, action to reaction movements. High velocity pitchers generate more force production than low velocity pitchers therefore they also have more dynamic reactive movements. This is also why low velocity pitchers have a poor understanding of how and when these movements occur.

This article will help educate those low velocity pitchers on these reactive movements that are so critical to producing high pitching velocity. Read more

Pitchers Remodel More Fast-Twitch Muscle with Olympic Lifting

TopVelocity.net has been a very controversial source of information within the conventional wisdom of the game when it comes to training the power pitcher. This is because 3X Pitching promotes the use of Olympic Lifting to develop any low velocity pitcher into a dominate high velocity power pitcher. The controversy has been going on for some time now and will continue until the conventional wisdom of the game adapts to the new discoveries of science. This article will plug some of these new and old studies that prove why the use of Olympic Lifting to build the power pitcher is so effective. Read more

Topvelocity.net is a Baseball Pitching and velocity improvement training program. Our main offerings include: a Pitching Velocity Program along with tips and articles to increase a pitchers velocity and online Pitching Video Analysis for players.