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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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Brent Pourciau, M.S.

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🚨 STOP ruining your arm trying to throw a “nasty” slider. Most pitchers are being taught the wrong one. 👇 Here’s the truth most coaches won’t tell you: 🌀 Supinated Slider • Looks filthy… until your elbow pays the price • Late supination = higher stress • Not sustainable for high-level velocity ⚡️ Pronated Slider • Thrown harder, later, and tighter • Matches fastball intent • Healthier on the arm + more consistent command 💡 Elite pitchers don’t chase break. They chase efficiency. If your slider is costing you velocity, command, or arm health… you’re not “missing a cue” — you’re missing a system. 🚀 Want the step-by-step breakdown of the Pronated Slider and how it fits into a complete velocity-first delivery? 👉 Comment “SLIDER” below and I’ll send you the full tutorial 👉 Or apply for remote coaching at ⚠️ Don’t guess. Don’t copy Twitter drills. Train with the same biomechanics-driven system used to build 90+ mph arms. #TopVelocity #PitchingDevelopment #SliderTraining #ArmHealth #ThrowHarder #PitchingBiomechanics #BaseballTraining #VelocitySystem

Brent Pourciau, Ph.D., M.S.

27,024 views • 6 months ago

80% of pitching velocity comes from rotation. The biggest mistake I see is guys trying to rotate by pushing hard down the mound. They try to push to create as much linear momentum as possible. That’s actually the wrong way to approach it. When you push, it becomes much harder to rotate effectively. Rotation is where most of your pitching velocity comes from. Hip to shoulder separation is responsible for about 80 percent of your velocity. If you take away from that separation, you’re taking away from your velocity. That’s why even from your knees you should be able to throw about 80 percent of your top velocity. What we want to do is maximize rotation and create as much separation as possible. Your pelvis fires toward the target while the ribcage, shoulders, and pec stay back. That stretch creates torque through your torso. That torque is what propels the arm through the throw. I created a full guide on this, so if you want it, comment guide below and I’ll send it over.
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80% of pitching velocity comes from rotation. The biggest mistake I see is guys trying to rotate by pushing hard down the mound. They try to push to create as much linear momentum as possible. That’s actually the wrong way to approach it. When you push, it becomes much harder to rotate effectively. Rotation is where most of your pitching velocity comes from. Hip to shoulder separation is responsible for about 80 percent of your velocity. If you take away from that separation, you’re taking away from your velocity. That’s why even from your knees you should be able to throw about 80 percent of your top velocity. What we want to do is maximize rotation and create as much separation as possible. Your pelvis fires toward the target while the ribcage, shoulders, and pec stay back. That stretch creates torque through your torso. That torque is what propels the arm through the throw. I created a full guide on this, so if you want it, comment guide below and I’ll send it over.

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Brent Pourciau, Ph.D., M.S.

64,643 views • 15 days ago

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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Stop Pushing With Your Back Leg As I trained to throw harder, I thought I needed to create a ton of momentum down the mound and really push off the rubber. That was actually holding me back from gaining pitching velocity for a couple reasons. The first reason was that pushing made it really hard for my pelvis to fire because it put me in a worse position instead of a better one. When I was pushing, it also made me fly open. The fix was thinking about keeping everything back and letting the pelvis rotate instead of pushing with my back leg. Most of your linear momentum comes from the drift and the drop in your delivery and the back leg. The back leg does have a role in building linear momentum, but its more important role is putting you in a good position to rotate. To create separation between your pelvis and your rib cage. That separation is what gives you true hip to shoulder separation that you can actually fire from.

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Lower body mechanics to throw 95 mph. There are four things about the lower body that I wish I knew when I was a 16 year old throwing 78 miles an hour and trying to throw 90 miles an hour and beyond. The first is the leg lift and how well you're able to start creating momentum toward the target. One of the biggest mistakes people make is thinking they need to fall forward as soon as they lift their leg to create drift. What worked for me was coming to a balance point first and then starting to shift my weight from there. That's still a form of drift, and you see a lot of Japanese pitchers do this, like Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The second component is the back leg and how it creates linear momentum toward the target. One of the biggest mistakes I made was diving too much into the quad. I'd get onto my toes and sink into my quad, which led to less power and actually made rotating much harder. Another mistake I made was squatting as deep as possible into the back leg, almost like a pistol squat. What actually helped me was simply dropping down as quickly as possible. I let gravity pull me down. If you've created enough drift, even just a slight drift, that drop will create linear momentum down the mound. The third component is getting the pelvis to rotate into foot plant. The biggest thing here is matching your pelvis plane of rotation and making sure the pelvis rotates down into foot plant rather than rotating upward. One of my favorite cues for this is to slam the knee down or get onto your shoelaces. The last component is simple. It's the lead leg block. You're trying to block all of the momentum you've created like your life depends on it. For me, I tried to extend as high as I could. That actually helped my pelvis continue to rotate because as the front leg extends, the pelvis gets more open. Those are the four things I wish I knew about the lower body when I was trying to gain pitching velocity.

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If you’re not doing this, you’re losing power and stability in your swing. After a controlled load into the back hip, we have to be ready to unleash that stored energy into the ball. The only way to do this with both force and stability is by hitting against a strong front side — more specifically, our front heel. When we drive the front heel properly into the ground, it allows us to maximize both force and stability, enabling our mechanics to function correctly and generate gap-to-gap power! #softball #hitting #lesson

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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.

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161,199 views • 4 months ago

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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.

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47,186 views • 1 month ago

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.

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40,373 views • 5 months ago

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.

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22,771 views • 5 months ago

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 views • 6 months ago

The Easiest Way to Increase Pitching Velocity. When I was going from 78 to 96 miles an hour, I did pull downs once a week. I also did either a mound velo day or a plyo velo day once more during the week. So why do I recommend high CNS throwing? There's a principle called the SAID principle, which stands for Specific Adaptations to Imposed Demands. Basically, the body responds to what it's exposed to. As cliché as it sounds, if you want to throw harder, you need to throw hard. And you need to throw hard often. If you're only throwing at low intent, there's no real stimulus. There's no reason for the body to adapt and start throwing harder. But when you're doing pull downs and you're able to throw even harder than you can off the mound, that provides the stimulus. You're telling your body that it needs to adapt to handle that level of intent and velocity. When I was throwing 96 miles an hour, I was able to pull down 100, 101, and 102. I was exposing my arm, my body, my muscles, and my central nervous system to those speeds. They had to adapt. And once those adaptations were in place, they carried over to the mound and helped me throw harder.
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The Easiest Way to Increase Pitching Velocity. When I was going from 78 to 96 miles an hour, I did pull downs once a week. I also did either a mound velo day or a plyo velo day once more during the week. So why do I recommend high CNS throwing? There's a principle called the SAID principle, which stands for Specific Adaptations to Imposed Demands. Basically, the body responds to what it's exposed to. As cliché as it sounds, if you want to throw harder, you need to throw hard. And you need to throw hard often. If you're only throwing at low intent, there's no real stimulus. There's no reason for the body to adapt and start throwing harder. But when you're doing pull downs and you're able to throw even harder than you can off the mound, that provides the stimulus. You're telling your body that it needs to adapt to handle that level of intent and velocity. When I was throwing 96 miles an hour, I was able to pull down 100, 101, and 102. I was exposing my arm, my body, my muscles, and my central nervous system to those speeds. They had to adapt. And once those adaptations were in place, they carried over to the mound and helped me throw harder.

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20,709 views • 3 months ago

#PuntFactory Teach Tape 📝 I have said for YEARS - “Shoulders forward, arm relaxed.” Why do I say that? Putting your shoulders forward moves your hips back - think of EVERY movement you do in the weight room to become stronger… cleans, squats, box-jumps, deadlifts etc. THEY. ALL. MIMIC. THIS. MOTION. You are spending that much time under the bar to do what… stand tall & NOT translate onto the field? Shoulders forward = hips back = POWER Shoulders tall = hips underneath or in front of you = LESS HIP EXTENSION AND LESS POWER — Arm relaxed = leverage By keeping your drop arm relaxed you keep the ballin your wheelhouse - think of it as throwing yourself a fastball down the middle. Pushing the ball out to your foot & having your drop arm extended = having to shoot your hips forward at contact & LOSING LEVERAGE! — SHOULDERS FORWARD, ARM RELAXED Keep it up fellas 🤙🏼 PS - if you want to improve, hit me up for virtual film sessions or get down to Nashville to train with the best 👈🏼
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#PuntFactory Teach Tape 📝 I have said for YEARS - “Shoulders forward, arm relaxed.” Why do I say that? Putting your shoulders forward moves your hips back - think of EVERY movement you do in the weight room to become stronger… cleans, squats, box-jumps, deadlifts etc. THEY. ALL. MIMIC. THIS. MOTION. You are spending that much time under the bar to do what… stand tall & NOT translate onto the field? Shoulders forward = hips back = POWER Shoulders tall = hips underneath or in front of you = LESS HIP EXTENSION AND LESS POWER — Arm relaxed = leverage By keeping your drop arm relaxed you keep the ballin your wheelhouse - think of it as throwing yourself a fastball down the middle. Pushing the ball out to your foot & having your drop arm extended = having to shoot your hips forward at contact & LOSING LEVERAGE! — SHOULDERS FORWARD, ARM RELAXED Keep it up fellas 🤙🏼 PS - if you want to improve, hit me up for virtual film sessions or get down to Nashville to train with the best 👈🏼

Aaron Perez

15,156 views • 2 years ago

This might be the best 3-minute explanation of throwing the football out there. Tom Brady does not describe throwing as an arm action. He describes it as a full-body transfer of energy. The throw starts in the ground. The feet create force. The stride organizes direction. The hips carry energy. The shoulders store and release torque. The arm stays relaxed enough to deliver the football instead of forcing the football. If the quarterback strides with his head in front of his chest, power leaks. If the front shoulder flies open, direction leaks. If the lead arm pulls across the body, the vector changes and the ball starts to spray. The mechanical standard is simple: Stride. Torque. Throw. The best part of Brady’s explanation is the relationship between speed and relaxation. When most quarterbacks want to throw harder, they tense up their upper body. Brady says the opposite. Move faster into the target, but relax the arm even more. That is high-level efficiency.
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This might be the best 3-minute explanation of throwing the football out there. Tom Brady does not describe throwing as an arm action. He describes it as a full-body transfer of energy. The throw starts in the ground. The feet create force. The stride organizes direction. The hips carry energy. The shoulders store and release torque. The arm stays relaxed enough to deliver the football instead of forcing the football. If the quarterback strides with his head in front of his chest, power leaks. If the front shoulder flies open, direction leaks. If the lead arm pulls across the body, the vector changes and the ball starts to spray. The mechanical standard is simple: Stride. Torque. Throw. The best part of Brady’s explanation is the relationship between speed and relaxation. When most quarterbacks want to throw harder, they tense up their upper body. Brady says the opposite. Move faster into the target, but relax the arm even more. That is high-level efficiency.

Nate Longshore

75,867 views • 1 month ago

People today walk around with the stiffest hips, and the implications are disastrous. You set yourself up for chronic pain and bad posture for the rest of your life. Take control now before it's too late. These 10 stretches will free your hips from their misery: The best time to do these stretches is before bed, as you unload all the tension accumulated throughout the day and achieve a deeper sleep. 1 - Half Frog Stretch (0:06) 3 x 30-60s/side This one is excellent for your inner thighs and hip flexors. You also stretch your abdominals. 2 - Seated Crossed Leg Reach Forward Stretch (0:14) 3 x 30-60s This stretch also hits the lats that sit right above your hips. Some of you may be unable to reach forward with your legs crossed. The first milestone is to touch the floor with your hands and then slide them forward. 3 - Seated Pigeon Stretch (0:23) 3 x 30-60s/leg Today, one of my clients felt a massive pull just by crossing his leg and pushing down. Forget leaning forward! The goal is to bring your chest down to your leg while keeping your back straight. Push your hips back toward the wall behind you to lower your torso. 4 - Seated Glute Strech (0:32) 3 x 30-60s/leg The difference between this stretch and the Seated Pigeon is that you curl your upper back to lower your head to your leg. 5 - Lying Glute Stretch (0:43) 3 x 30-60s/leg Lying on your back with one leg crossed. Pull the other leg toward your chest and hold. 6 - Pigeon Stretch (0:52) 3 x 30-60s/leg This stretch never fails to open my clients' hips, though many will feel enough of a pull by simply crossing one leg. The goal is to reach forward and lower your torso parallel to the floor. 7 - Glute Bridge with External Rotation (1:00) 3 x 10-12/leg This one is great because you strengthen one leg and stretch the other. Due to a lack of strength or mobility, you might have to rotate with a bent leg before moving onto a straightened one. 8 - Frog Stretch (1:05) 3 x 30-60s The frog stretch is amazing for your inner thigh muscles. Start kneeling with your elbows on the floor and your feet pointing outward. Slide backward and hold. 9 - Crossed-Leg Glute Bridge (1:14) 3 x 30-60s/leg Here is another Glute Bridge variation where you strengthen one leg and stretch the other. You feel the hip opening up at the top, so hold it there and rotate your knee away from your body to increase the pull. 10 - V Stretch (1:23) 3 x 30-60s You can do this stretch with your legs up in the air or against a wall. // Start taking care of your hips now before they turn into stone. Reversing the stiffness becomes much more painful and takes much longer if you let it fester over the years. You'll feel much more relaxed and move smoother once you eliminate all the excess pressure.
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People today walk around with the stiffest hips, and the implications are disastrous. You set yourself up for chronic pain and bad posture for the rest of your life. Take control now before it's too late. These 10 stretches will free your hips from their misery: The best time to do these stretches is before bed, as you unload all the tension accumulated throughout the day and achieve a deeper sleep. 1 - Half Frog Stretch (0:06) 3 x 30-60s/side This one is excellent for your inner thighs and hip flexors. You also stretch your abdominals. 2 - Seated Crossed Leg Reach Forward Stretch (0:14) 3 x 30-60s This stretch also hits the lats that sit right above your hips. Some of you may be unable to reach forward with your legs crossed. The first milestone is to touch the floor with your hands and then slide them forward. 3 - Seated Pigeon Stretch (0:23) 3 x 30-60s/leg Today, one of my clients felt a massive pull just by crossing his leg and pushing down. Forget leaning forward! The goal is to bring your chest down to your leg while keeping your back straight. Push your hips back toward the wall behind you to lower your torso. 4 - Seated Glute Strech (0:32) 3 x 30-60s/leg The difference between this stretch and the Seated Pigeon is that you curl your upper back to lower your head to your leg. 5 - Lying Glute Stretch (0:43) 3 x 30-60s/leg Lying on your back with one leg crossed. Pull the other leg toward your chest and hold. 6 - Pigeon Stretch (0:52) 3 x 30-60s/leg This stretch never fails to open my clients' hips, though many will feel enough of a pull by simply crossing one leg. The goal is to reach forward and lower your torso parallel to the floor. 7 - Glute Bridge with External Rotation (1:00) 3 x 10-12/leg This one is great because you strengthen one leg and stretch the other. Due to a lack of strength or mobility, you might have to rotate with a bent leg before moving onto a straightened one. 8 - Frog Stretch (1:05) 3 x 30-60s The frog stretch is amazing for your inner thigh muscles. Start kneeling with your elbows on the floor and your feet pointing outward. Slide backward and hold. 9 - Crossed-Leg Glute Bridge (1:14) 3 x 30-60s/leg Here is another Glute Bridge variation where you strengthen one leg and stretch the other. You feel the hip opening up at the top, so hold it there and rotate your knee away from your body to increase the pull. 10 - V Stretch (1:23) 3 x 30-60s You can do this stretch with your legs up in the air or against a wall. // Start taking care of your hips now before they turn into stone. Reversing the stiffness becomes much more painful and takes much longer if you let it fester over the years. You'll feel much more relaxed and move smoother once you eliminate all the excess pressure.

Alex Bernier

413,057 views • 2 years ago

6 Non-Negotiable Weight Room Lifts for Pitchers 💪🔥⁠ ⁠ 1. Reverse Lunge⁠ 2. Sled Push/Drag⁠ 3. Single-Leg DB RDL⁠ 4. Nordic ISO⁠ 5. Reverse Crunch⁠ 6. Trunk Rotation⁠ ⁠ More on each below ⬇️⁠ ⁠ 1. Reverse Lunge⁠ ⁠ The safety bar reverse lunge builds strength in the split squat position you land in when you throw. Teaching your body to be strong there makes everything else easier.⁠ ⁠ Target 1.5-1.8x bodyweight for the best carryover to the mound.⁠ ⁠ 2. Sled Push/Drag⁠ ⁠ Three variations in one: push, side drag, and reverse drag. Minimal spinal compression while still training the force output qualities pitchers need across all three planes of movement.⁠ ⁠ 3. Single Leg DB RDL⁠ ⁠ Targets the posterior chain with an emphasis on the lead leg block. High-velo guys stop momentum fast, then drive through length. This movement builds the hamstring and glute strength to do exactly that.⁠ ⁠ 4. Nordic ISO⁠ ⁠ One of the harder exercises on this list. This exercise trains the posterior chain directly, teaching the hamstrings how to isometrically contract before landing.⁠ ⁠ 5. Reverse Crunch⁠ ⁠ The abs resist spinal extension as you move down the mound. This exercise teaches your trunk to delay rotation until the last second.⁠ ⁠ 6. Trunk Rotation⁠ ⁠ Isolates the trunk and trains force output from a powerful landing position. Keep arms fully extended so the trunk does the work. Going too light kills the feedback.
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6 Non-Negotiable Weight Room Lifts for Pitchers 💪🔥⁠ ⁠ 1. Reverse Lunge⁠ 2. Sled Push/Drag⁠ 3. Single-Leg DB RDL⁠ 4. Nordic ISO⁠ 5. Reverse Crunch⁠ 6. Trunk Rotation⁠ ⁠ More on each below ⬇️⁠ ⁠ 1. Reverse Lunge⁠ ⁠ The safety bar reverse lunge builds strength in the split squat position you land in when you throw. Teaching your body to be strong there makes everything else easier.⁠ ⁠ Target 1.5-1.8x bodyweight for the best carryover to the mound.⁠ ⁠ 2. Sled Push/Drag⁠ ⁠ Three variations in one: push, side drag, and reverse drag. Minimal spinal compression while still training the force output qualities pitchers need across all three planes of movement.⁠ ⁠ 3. Single Leg DB RDL⁠ ⁠ Targets the posterior chain with an emphasis on the lead leg block. High-velo guys stop momentum fast, then drive through length. This movement builds the hamstring and glute strength to do exactly that.⁠ ⁠ 4. Nordic ISO⁠ ⁠ One of the harder exercises on this list. This exercise trains the posterior chain directly, teaching the hamstrings how to isometrically contract before landing.⁠ ⁠ 5. Reverse Crunch⁠ ⁠ The abs resist spinal extension as you move down the mound. This exercise teaches your trunk to delay rotation until the last second.⁠ ⁠ 6. Trunk Rotation⁠ ⁠ Isolates the trunk and trains force output from a powerful landing position. Keep arms fully extended so the trunk does the work. Going too light kills the feedback.

Tread Athletics

79,617 views • 7 days ago

This college senior has an insane transformation🤯⁠ ⁠ Craig Stem breaks down how he did it ⬇️⁠ ⁠ The mechanical breakdown showed a delivery full of compensations that were killing his velocity. Poor first move out of leg lift with almost no drift. Back knee dumping toward third base. Front leg swinging open way too early. Throwing arm getting stuck behind him in a "power T" position. ⁠Landing with his front foot wide open. Upper half having to overcomperate just to get back on line.⁠ ⁠ The fixes started simple during his spring season. Pendulum drill to relax the arm, getting off his quad, more linear direction to home plate. He topped 91 for a new PR in April.⁠ ⁠ May-June: Introduced elbow-driven arm action. Ethan had a hand-driven philosophy that created a long, inefficient path. Cueing elbow flip kept the arm short and captured momentum better.⁠ ⁠ Craig discovered that Ethan avoided external rotation. He wanted his hand on top of the ball. So he kept him in IR as long as possible, got to ER late. Late layback became his power move.⁠ ⁠ October: The lateral tilt piece changed everything. "Dip into the velo bucket" then explode out of it. Shorter arm action + more efficient lower half + ability to rotate fast and pull that arm through.⁠ ⁠ December: Ethan ran it up to 95 MPH multiple times.⁠ ⁠ January at Tread HQ: He came out sitting 96 and topped 98 indoors.⁠ ⁠ Potentially the coolest part? Ethan Hochendoner made 90% of these gains remotely.
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This college senior has an insane transformation🤯⁠ ⁠ Craig Stem breaks down how he did it ⬇️⁠ ⁠ The mechanical breakdown showed a delivery full of compensations that were killing his velocity. Poor first move out of leg lift with almost no drift. Back knee dumping toward third base. Front leg swinging open way too early. Throwing arm getting stuck behind him in a "power T" position. ⁠Landing with his front foot wide open. Upper half having to overcomperate just to get back on line.⁠ ⁠ The fixes started simple during his spring season. Pendulum drill to relax the arm, getting off his quad, more linear direction to home plate. He topped 91 for a new PR in April.⁠ ⁠ May-June: Introduced elbow-driven arm action. Ethan had a hand-driven philosophy that created a long, inefficient path. Cueing elbow flip kept the arm short and captured momentum better.⁠ ⁠ Craig discovered that Ethan avoided external rotation. He wanted his hand on top of the ball. So he kept him in IR as long as possible, got to ER late. Late layback became his power move.⁠ ⁠ October: The lateral tilt piece changed everything. "Dip into the velo bucket" then explode out of it. Shorter arm action + more efficient lower half + ability to rotate fast and pull that arm through.⁠ ⁠ December: Ethan ran it up to 95 MPH multiple times.⁠ ⁠ January at Tread HQ: He came out sitting 96 and topped 98 indoors.⁠ ⁠ Potentially the coolest part? Ethan Hochendoner made 90% of these gains remotely.

Tread Athletics

13,353 views • 5 months ago