Tag Archive for: Pitching

3 Ways Baseball Pitchers Can Use a Radar Gun to Enhance Performance

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One of the simplest, yet most effective training aids for any baseball pitcher is a radar gun.

At one point in time, I was actually against having youth baseball pitchers use a radar gun too often and focus on velocity, … Read more >

Two Pitch-Calling Mistakes that Cause High Pitch Counts

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Many young pitchers struggle to get deep into games, instead racking up high pitch counts on long at-bats caused by ineffective pitch-calling strategy. In this article, we’ll discuss common pitch-calling mistakes that cause pitch-counts to inflate too quickly.

 

Mistake

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How Visualizing a Bad Performance Can Help an Athlete Avoid One

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The fear of failure—and the shame, embarrassment and ridicule that accompanies it—is a major hindrance of fluid, athletic motion and good performance on the field. It’s common wisdom that positive visualization and self-talk will enhance an athlete’s mindset, boosting confidence … Read more >

4 Ways to Improve Your Command and Control in the Weight Room

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Generally, when players start to struggle with throwing strikes, they’ve been conditioned to modify their mechanics. Many times, this is completely unnecessary.

Anatomy often tells us that in order to fix a “control” issue, strength and stability may need to … Read more >

The Three Hardest Challenges of Tommy John Rehab

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My elbow hurts a lot.

My arm feels really tight.

I feel great!

It was really sore the next day.

I had nothing on it – no movement and no velocity.

It started off good, then it started to hurt. … Read more >

Top 4 Exercises to Help Generate Front Leg Power in Throwers

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In this blog post, I am going to focus on the lead leg when throwing. While arm path and direction are definitely something to not ignore, the lead leg plays a very important role when throwing a baseball, especially pitching.… Read more >

4 Arm Care Exercises Baseball Players Should Be Doing

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I had another request from a subscriber to go over some arm care exercises this week. I put together a video below of 4 exercises I consistently use with our throwers during arm care days, or after a throwing … Read more >

Quick Tips to Never Hang a Curveball Again

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You’ve got the hitter 0-1 after a sharp first-pitch fastball for a strike. You then break off a nasty 1/7 curveball, and he swings and misses. The hitter is on the ropes and took an ugly swing, so the catcher … Read more >

How to Use the Weight Room for Baseball Pitching Mechanical Issues

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I truly believe that for those athletes that can do certain basic things properly the sky is the limit. However, the reality is that the underlying foundation that enables pitchers to do these “basic things” is great strength and mobility … Read more >

5 Rotational Power Exercises for Baseball Performance

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A strengthening program for baseball that doesn’t include rotational movements and “controlled rotation” is simply incomplete. Like the pitcher that throws 100 mph but has no idea where the ball is going, neither one is very effective.

Many of the … Read more >