by Brent Pourciau | Dec 19, 2013 | Pitching Articles
You are not pitching with your legs! You need to learn to be more aggressive! You need to be more explosive when pitching on the mound! I am sure you have heard this a few times in your pitching career. I am also sure you have struggled to look for the solution to...
by Brent Pourciau | Sep 22, 2013 | Pitcher Velocity Training Articles, Pitching Articles
Post surgery doctors told me I would never pitch again because of the serious damage to my rotator cuff from throwing a baseball. I never trained with weights for baseball before the surgery. After the surgery I decided to ignore the conventional wisdom of the game...
by Brent Pourciau | Feb 10, 2009 | Pitching Articles
Is bad pitching mechanics a sign of poor awareness of movement or muscular weakness? Above average coordination takes fast twitch muscle strength. Fast twitch motor neurons recruit more muscle fibers. This means more control of the body and also more explosive power....
by Brent Pourciau | Jan 8, 2009 | Pitching Articles
If your Coach or Trainer has pitchers long distance running for longer than five minutes at a SLOW pace then you are training to be just that, SLOW! Muscles have a mixture of two basic types of fibers, fast twitch and slow twitch. Fast-twitch fibers are capable of...
by Brent Pourciau | Dec 9, 2008 | Pitcher Velocity Training Articles
This is an excellent beginner workout. It focuses on training the body as a single unit. All these lifts support the development of Fast Twitch Muscle Fibers which will make you more explosive as an athlete. This workout was developed for pitchers but recommend for...
