As much as we can find many different reasons arm injuries are climbing in all levels of baseball today, like in these top ten ways to prevent a UCL tear, there is one reason which is a major part of the problem and that is overuse. With all year round travel ball becoming all the rage…
This article will help define the difference in throwing mechanics of pitchers to position players. It will also define the key physical differences that make up the pitcher and the position player. The reason for this article is because I have received thousands of requests from position players for me to develop a velocity program…
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 which was telling me weight training would reduce performance…
The biggest miss conception in baseball, I mean the BIGGEST, is that pitching is pure mechanics driven. This couldn’t be more backwards in thinking than the belief that a fast car is the pure result of a good driver. Put Jeff Gordon in a go cart and let’s see how good he does in the…
It is proven that high velocity pitcher has more dynamic trunk movements than low velocity pitchers (1). More important is when the trunk initiates movement in the pitching delivery. This timing of trunk rotation is critical when it comes to increasing arm speed. Arm speed programs that do not address the pelvic and trunk movements…
