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 | Nov 27, 2010 | Nutrition
Recovery can be a pitchers worst enemy or his best friend. If a pitcher is able to recovery faster than the average athlete then he has a significant advantage. The benefits to faster muscle recovery after a workout or game is reduced muscle fatigue which leads to...
by Brent Pourciau | Aug 12, 2009 | Pitching Articles
It took steroids in the game of baseball to wake up the MLB. They learned quickly that the old school mentality that baseball weight training will not make a baseball player better probably was dead wrong but instead of the MLB opening the game to the latest advances...
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 | Dec 5, 2008 | Pitching Articles
There really isn't a pitching workout out there made for the athlete. This is why most of them or ineffective. The reason they are ineffective is because they do not train athletic performance. I am a USA Weightlifting Certified Coach who overcame rotator surgery to...