my names Bryan Bower,

I'm a Senior at Plainfield South High school, Right handed pitcher.

I don't have a "big" build", I'm about 5'10" 146 pounds, probably around the area of 79-81mph (last time clocked was fall 2010 at 76-77 showing big difference since). I converted from catcher/third basemen to pitcher towards the end of my freshmen spring high school season to become a pitcher/third basemen then made the complete just pitcher change in my sophomore winter off season training and struggled to figure it out. I've worked with many different pitching techniques,devices and coaches. My biggest problem is gaining velocity, i picked up a few miles during this fall season from weight lifting doing more legs (lunges, squats, reverse leg curl, leg curl,etc) and also getting a little closer foot strike not completely there yet. Ive worked with Doug Beddinger, a former minor league pitcher for awhile in my Junior year off season, he taught me many things to help with accuracy yet never got quite into the whole velocity. Ive tried devices like the pitcher power drive which seemed to help with stride length and leading with the hip, but thats it. My dad found this site on the internet and we read on it and it seemed good so here I am now trying to better myself as an athlete and a pitcher and open to numerous ideas to get the extra miles to impress my high school coach and move to the next level.

Thank you.

I'm excited to see improvement in velocity and ill do whatever it takes to gain as much as possible and also gain knowledge on pitching, is there any ways to get a coaches attention drawn more towards myself? he compliments me every now and then during gym class about i look stronger and more in shape, but i want to wow him with stuff because im more of an "under the radar" player to him

also, im not exactly sure what type of angle you'd want for the video analysis i have 2 different angles and videos. would it be alright to post both for you to pick which one would be easier to analyze?

thanks for your time!

I posted the video in the video analysis forum section, i tried to find the best quality and closest view points i could hopefully they are good enough.

Ill give it 100% i already wrote down the whole workout plan to start today at the gym, but i have a few questions if you dont mind..

-is it bad to do long cardio? running numerous miles or going on the elliptical

-with the nutrition is the objective to eliminate the high acidic foods? it was somewhat confusing

- last question, im not sure if you heard of it, but its sponsored by Drew Storen (Washington nationals pitcher)the pitcher power drive, do you think i could use it to implement some of the mechanical things you teach?