by Brent Pourciau | Apr 18, 2011 | Pitching Articles
Adding 5 MPH to your fastball can be a tough challenge if you do not know what you are doing. You definitely will not accomplish this using conventional wisdom. Old school approaches like extreme long toss, weighted balls or speed chains may get you close but the...
by Brent Pourciau | Jun 18, 2009 | References
Stodden DF, Fleisig GS, McLean SP, Lyman SL, Andrews JR. Relationship of pelvis and upper torso kinematics to pitched baseball velocity. Journal of Applied Biomechanics 17(2):164-172, 2001. Matsuo T, Escamilla RF, Fleisig GS, Barrentine SW, Andrews JF. Comparison of...
by Brent Pourciau | Jun 17, 2009 | Pitching Articles
If you haven't figured it out yet, you can't gain pitching velocity with a pill. Sorry to bust your bubble but it takes a lot of hard and smart work to develop it. If you are looking to gain 4-5 mph on your fastball then you must work to improve in all facets of...
by Brent Pourciau | Jun 17, 2009 | Pitching Articles
Why waste your time and money on pitching coaches and strength and conditioning when you can get all the velocity you want in the pitching velocity pill? Do you want to know what it is like to throw 90 plus mph? Do you want to dominate every batter you face? Do you...
by Brent Pourciau | May 9, 2009 | Pitching Articles
There is a lot of controversy around why pitchers ice arm post game. After surgery I was very strict when it came to icing post game. I know that it isn't enough for me here to just say that, "Hey, I did it, so you should too." So, I took some time to research the web...