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 | Jun 19, 2012 | Pitcher Velocity Training Articles
So who is afraid of the bench press? Don't be scared! There has been for years a lot of controversy around the bench press for pitchers. The conventional pitching coach describes the lift as a guaranteed career ending device, "It will destroy your rotator cuff or make...
by Brent Pourciau | Apr 16, 2011 | Pitching Articles
Most gimmicks on the internet, that claim to increase pitching velocity or just enhance pitching performance, mainly focus on the upper kinetic chain like the arm. This would include gimmicks like the latest "Speed Chains" and the old school "Weighted balls." They all...
by Brent Pourciau | Mar 24, 2011 | Pitching Articles
Behm and Sale with the Department of Physical Education, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada put together a case study called, Velocity Specificity of Resistance Training. This study showed that velocity is increased within muscle contractions when the...
by Brent Pourciau | Mar 23, 2011 | Pitching Articles
Robert U. Newton and Kerry P. McEvoy with the Centre for Exercise Science and Sport Management, Southern Cross University Australia has proven the title of this page to be true. I have been saying this for years but pitching coaches all over this country continue to...