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🚨 Most pitchers are leaking velocity without realizing it… The problem isn’t your arm. It’s your DRIVE LEG. ⚡️ If your back leg collapses inward during the delivery, your body loses force before it ever reaches the baseball. That means: ❌ Less velo ❌ Poor command ❌ More stress...

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How to Create Rotation With the Back Leg How you want to actually create rotation with the back leg. For me and higher level guys, I don’t even like to think about rotation. If you feel your hips rotating, it’s probably too slow. This is such a violent, explosive movement that happens in milliseconds. You shouldn’t even be able to feel it. That’s why I think about it as a weight shift. When you’re putting force into the ground, into that X direction, most of your weight is on the back leg. Then once you create that impulse and it propels you forward, all you need to think about is getting to the front leg. That force naturally rotates the hips into foot plant. For a lot of higher level guys, this helps a lot. They don’t have to think about rotating the hips. Because that can actually mess things up. Instead, it’s just force into the ground and get to the front leg. The pelvis will rotate on its own.
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Diagonal delivery vs L shape delivery. When I got up to 95, all I thought about was getting as deep into my back leg as possible. When I made the jump to 98, what I did was get into that drop a lot quicker. Now as I train to throw 100, I’m starting to think about it differently. If I sink too deep into my back leg, I create more of a drop and drive delivery where I have to drop first and then create energy toward the target. Rather than having it happen at the same time. Where I’m going down and out at the same rate. That’s the most efficient way to create as much energy toward the target as possible. One of the big fixes I’ve made is dropping into the inside of my back foot. Rather than putting force into the whole foot. This prevents me from getting too deep because I can’t get into a squat position when I’m putting force into the inside of my back leg. It also helps me create more energy toward the target. When you put force into the inside of your back foot, you’ll naturally move forward more than you move down. I also created a full guide on this, so if you want it, comment guide and I’ll send it through to you.
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Josh Gessner

18,867 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

Bulgarian split squats are one of the best single leg strength exercises for runners. Your glutes and quads work together to drive you up while your hip has to stabilize the entire movement. That's something a normal squat or goblet squat won't give you. Setup tip: sit on the bench, place your heels forward. That's where your standing foot goes. Focus points: → Drive straight up and down, not backward → A slight forward lean loads the glutes more (stay upright if you want it quad dominant) → Control the lowering phase. Don't drop into it 3 x 8-10 each side. Have the weight opposite of the standing leg.
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Bulgarian split squats are one of the best single leg strength exercises for runners. Your glutes and quads work together to drive you up while your hip has to stabilize the entire movement. That's something a normal squat or goblet squat won't give you. Setup tip: sit on the bench, place your heels forward. That's where your standing foot goes. Focus points: → Drive straight up and down, not backward → A slight forward lean loads the glutes more (stay upright if you want it quad dominant) → Control the lowering phase. Don't drop into it 3 x 8-10 each side. Have the weight opposite of the standing leg.

Tim Roozendaal

161,199 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

Weighted baseballs are one of the most debated training tools in baseball right now. Some coaches swear by them. Some say they are destroying arms. And if you have a pitcher in your house you have probably heard both sides. Here is what Dr. Kevin McGovern has seen in over thirty years of working with pitchers at every level: the arm is the caboose. Power does not start there. It never did. It starts with two movements most pitchers have never been taught correctly. The hip hinge and scapular depression. Master those two things and you have built the foundation that every other training tool has to sit on top of. Skip them and it does not matter what you throw or how hard you throw it. The body will find a way to compensate and eventually it will find a way to break down. Dr. Kevin J McGovern, PT, CSCS has been on this podcast three times now because this stuff matters and not enough people are talking about it. This week he breaks down exactly how to build velocity the right way without destroying your arm in the process. Want the full episode? Comment PODCAST and I will send it over.
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Weighted baseballs are one of the most debated training tools in baseball right now. Some coaches swear by them. Some say they are destroying arms. And if you have a pitcher in your house you have probably heard both sides. Here is what Dr. Kevin McGovern has seen in over thirty years of working with pitchers at every level: the arm is the caboose. Power does not start there. It never did. It starts with two movements most pitchers have never been taught correctly. The hip hinge and scapular depression. Master those two things and you have built the foundation that every other training tool has to sit on top of. Skip them and it does not matter what you throw or how hard you throw it. The body will find a way to compensate and eventually it will find a way to break down. Dr. Kevin J McGovern, PT, CSCS has been on this podcast three times now because this stuff matters and not enough people are talking about it. This week he breaks down exactly how to build velocity the right way without destroying your arm in the process. Want the full episode? Comment PODCAST and I will send it over.

Nick Lemke, RD | Sports Nutrition for Athletes

47,196 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Stop accelerating down the mound. I’m sure you’ve heard the cue to accelerate down the mound. Get down the mound quickly. The mistake most people make, and the mistake I made when I was 16, was trying to force it. I was throwing slow, around 78 to 80 miles an hour. I thought I had to push off the rubber as hard as I could to accelerate my body down the mound. When I made the jump to throwing 90 plus to 95 as an 18 year old, the big change I made was this. Instead of pushing off the rubber to accelerate my center of mass down the mound, I let gravity pull me into the ground. That matters because when gravity pulls you into position without pushing, your back leg stays loaded and under you. Now the back leg can work underneath you. It can rotate you and pull the pelvis open. That pulls the spine and then propels the arm. The goal isn’t to force speed down the mound. The goal is to let gravity set up the back leg so it can accelerate the pelvis, which pulls the spine into the throw.
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Stop accelerating down the mound. I’m sure you’ve heard the cue to accelerate down the mound. Get down the mound quickly. The mistake most people make, and the mistake I made when I was 16, was trying to force it. I was throwing slow, around 78 to 80 miles an hour. I thought I had to push off the rubber as hard as I could to accelerate my body down the mound. When I made the jump to throwing 90 plus to 95 as an 18 year old, the big change I made was this. Instead of pushing off the rubber to accelerate my center of mass down the mound, I let gravity pull me into the ground. That matters because when gravity pulls you into position without pushing, your back leg stays loaded and under you. Now the back leg can work underneath you. It can rotate you and pull the pelvis open. That pulls the spine and then propels the arm. The goal isn’t to force speed down the mound. The goal is to let gravity set up the back leg so it can accelerate the pelvis, which pulls the spine into the throw.

Josh Gessner

40,373 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

POV: you throw through the target. This might be the most underrated cue in baseball for increasing pitching velocity. It’s the idea of throwing through the target. Tom House did a study on this. He found that 80 percent of pitching velocity comes from separation and rotation. The other 20 percent comes from how well you track toward the target and direct energy through it. I made this mistake for years. I built a delivery where I would pull off. I tried to create power with rotation alone. What actually happened was I leaked energy sideways instead of directing it through the target. One of my favorite examples is Yamamoto. He doesn’t spin off. All of his energy is directed through and toward the target. He even finishes going forward. Everything goes through the target, not just rotation. Here’s the key. You still need rotation. That’s 80 percent of your pitching velocity. You can throw about 80 percent of your velocity from your knees because of rotation. But if you don’t direct that energy through the target, you’re leaving velocity on the table.
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POV: you throw through the target. This might be the most underrated cue in baseball for increasing pitching velocity. It’s the idea of throwing through the target. Tom House did a study on this. He found that 80 percent of pitching velocity comes from separation and rotation. The other 20 percent comes from how well you track toward the target and direct energy through it. I made this mistake for years. I built a delivery where I would pull off. I tried to create power with rotation alone. What actually happened was I leaked energy sideways instead of directing it through the target. One of my favorite examples is Yamamoto. He doesn’t spin off. All of his energy is directed through and toward the target. He even finishes going forward. Everything goes through the target, not just rotation. Here’s the key. You still need rotation. That’s 80 percent of your pitching velocity. You can throw about 80 percent of your velocity from your knees because of rotation. But if you don’t direct that energy through the target, you’re leaving velocity on the table.

Josh Gessner

22,771 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

What’s the best way to load into your back leg. When I threw 95, I tried to get as deep as possible and load into my back leg as much as I could. The way I got to 98 was by speeding up the drop and getting into my back leg as quickly as possible. As I’m training to throw a hundred miles an hour, I’m starting to think about it differently. Instead of dropping into my back leg and getting as deep as possible, I like to feel more of an impulse. I’m putting force into the ground and the ground pushes back and gives me a burst of energy toward the plate. Studies have shown that the guys with the best impulse from their back leg throw the hardest. That means putting the most force into the ground for the longest amount of time. When you see this, you get guys like Shane McLanahan, Misiorowski, and Strider who look like they’re almost jumping down the mound. They’re really just putting so much force into the ground that it propels them forward. The key for me is I don’t want to put force into the ground by tensing up. I don’t want it to feel like a single leg squat. It should feel more like a max effort jump. The quicker I go down, the higher I’m able to jump. That lets me take better advantage of the stretch shortening cycle and improve my impulse.
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What’s the best way to load into your back leg. When I threw 95, I tried to get as deep as possible and load into my back leg as much as I could. The way I got to 98 was by speeding up the drop and getting into my back leg as quickly as possible. As I’m training to throw a hundred miles an hour, I’m starting to think about it differently. Instead of dropping into my back leg and getting as deep as possible, I like to feel more of an impulse. I’m putting force into the ground and the ground pushes back and gives me a burst of energy toward the plate. Studies have shown that the guys with the best impulse from their back leg throw the hardest. That means putting the most force into the ground for the longest amount of time. When you see this, you get guys like Shane McLanahan, Misiorowski, and Strider who look like they’re almost jumping down the mound. They’re really just putting so much force into the ground that it propels them forward. The key for me is I don’t want to put force into the ground by tensing up. I don’t want it to feel like a single leg squat. It should feel more like a max effort jump. The quicker I go down, the higher I’m able to jump. That lets me take better advantage of the stretch shortening cycle and improve my impulse.

Josh Gessner

18,293 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten