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🚨 Most pitchers never reach full layback. Not because they’re not flexible. Because they’re moving wrong. The biggest mistake I see? Pitchers leaning forward too early. When your chest collapses toward the plate, your shoulder blades can’t load properly, your elbow gets pulled forward, and you lose the ability...

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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 on the arm Elite pitchers do the opposite. They create powerful external rotation in the drive leg to load force, stabilize the lower half, and explode down the mound. 🔥 Here’s what separates high-velocity throwers from everyone else: ✅ Stable drive-leg mechanics ✅ Explosive force transfer through the kinetic chain ✅ Controlled momentum into front-foot strike ✅ More velocity with less arm stress Your legs generate the power. Your arm just delivers it. 💥 If you want to throw harder, move more efficiently, and train like the pros, TopVelocity breaks down the exact mechanics and drills used to build elite-level pitching velocity. 👇 Comment “VELO” and we’ll send you the training. 🔗 Or visit Brent Pourciau, M.S..org to start developing pro-level mechanics today. #TopVelocity #PitchingVelocity #PitchingMechanics #BaseballTraining #ThrowHarder

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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

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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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Losing velocity in-season isn’t normal You lose it because you stop training with purpose like you were in the off-season. Most pitchers shift into “competition mode” once the season starts—cutting strength work, avoiding intent, and living their life game to game. That’s why performance falls off. Here’s the reality: In-season isn’t about doing less—it’s about doing the right things at the right dose. ✔️ Maintain strength (or you’ll lose it fast) ✔️ Keep high intent exposures (velocity is a skill) ✔️ Manage fatigue without eliminating stimulus The athletes who dominate late in the season aren’t guessing—they’re following a plan. That’s the difference between: ➡️ Feeling worn down by week 4 ➡️ Or finishing the season stronger than you started If you’re serious about your development, you can’t afford the setback. Our training plans are comprehensive and tackle players needs all season long — strength, mobility, skill development, workload management. #DominateTheZone

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The muscle group that makes men over 40 look old from behind: Rear delts. It's pretty easy to spot if this applies to you. Just stand side on in front of a mirror. You'll notice your shoulders will be rolled forward, likely your head is forward too, and your posture resembles something akin to Quasimodo. And you shouldn't be surprised. This is what happens after 25 years of pressing and desk work training the FRONT of your shoulder while the back of it did nothing. Every push you've ever done pulled your shoulders forward. Almost nothing you've done pulls them back into the socket. The fix I use (and recommend to clients too)? Seated single arm rear delt row with a high elbow and a roller squeezed between the knees. Why each piece matters: High elbow = this is what separates it from a normal row. Elbow travels out and up, in line with the rear delt fibers. Row with a tucked elbow and your lats take over. Lats are already strong. That's not the target. Seated + roller squeeze = pelvis anchored, ribs stacked, spine can't lean back to cheat the weight up. The rep comes from the shoulder, not momentum. No squeeze, and the lean-back creeps in by rep six. Single arm = most men over 40 have one shoulder blade that sits lower and works worse. Bilateral rows let the good side carry it. One arm at a time, the weak side gets found out and fixed. Cable = tension through the whole arc, including the stretched position in front of your body where the rear delt actually needs work. The rear delt pulls your arm back in line with your body. Train it and your shoulders sit where they did at 30. You'll find your shirts hang differently and you'll command a more assertive posture in board meetings and Zoom calls. Remember... User a lighter weight, high elbow and feel the back of the shoulder do the work. Most guys never have.

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This exercise straightens our postures like no other. T3 Raises will pull your shoulder blades down naturally and give your upper back some much-needed support. I've never met somebody with pain or posture problems who could easily lift a weight above the ear. 🎯Twice a week Form: - One leg is forward, the same side as the arm holding the weight. - Keep your back straight by pushing your hips back and arching your back. - Hold your working arm at 90 degrees relative to your torso. - Slide your shoulder blade toward your spine. - Lift your arm above your ear. - Lower back to the 90-degree position, and repeat. Watch out for: - Rounding your back. - Sliding your shoulder blade up toward your neck instead of back toward your spine as compensation for weak rhomboids. - Bending your elbow when you lift as compensation for weak lower traps. - Not lifting the weight above your ear as many lack the strength and mobility to do so. Film yourself if you're not sure. // I learned this exercise from the great strength coach Charles Poliquin in 2010, and it's been a game changer for my clients and me ever since. Do your T3 Raises every week, and watch how your posture changes before your eyes.

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411,044 views • 2 years ago

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The Biggest Mistake of College Pitchers The biggest mistake I see is guys doing random stuff and putting in the work, thinking that’s enough. They’ll say, yeah man, I’m putting in the work, I lift five times a week, I throw five times a week, I do mobility every day. Then I ask them, what’s the goal in the weight room? They say, just lift heavy. I ask, what’s the goal with your throwing program? What’s going on with your mechanics? What are you attacking? They’ll say they kind of just long toss every day and that’s it. So do you really feel like that’s the most efficient path to get where you want to go? If there’s no intention behind what you’re doing, then you’re just doing something to do something. This is most common with college guys in programs where the lifting plan isn’t great and the coaches don’t really help them. They get stronger, but they never throw harder. It’s because they’re not working on what they actually need to work on. If you’re already super strong in college, then let’s focus on force production, power, and your mechanics. You need to transfer the strength you built into the mound. 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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13,585 views • 5 months ago

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95 MPH isn’t thrown. It’s BUILT — in 4 phases. ⚡ Greyson Parker is 17 throwing 96. Not because of his arm — because of his lower half: 1️⃣ LIFT LEG MOMENTUM — building linear momentum down the slope 2️⃣ THE LOAD — drive leg flexed like a loaded spring, ~120° at the knee 3️⃣ TRIPLE EXTENSION + ANKLE KICK — hip, knee, ankle firing into front foot strike. Hip-shoulder separation drives ~80% of your velocity 4️⃣ FRONT LEG STABILIZATION — the front leg absorbs ~175% of bodyweight and converts linear force into rotation Most pitchers leak velocity in Phase 4 and never know it. MechanicsDNA scores your delivery against peer-reviewed biomechanics — Fleisig, Stodden, Orishimo, MacWilliams — from one phone video, and shows you exactly which phase is costing you velo. Comment “DNA” and I’ll send you the free MechanicsDNA Mini ⤵ Send this to a pitcher who’s all arm. 🧬⚾ #pitchingmechanics #pitchingvelocity #baseballtraining #topvelocity #tripleextension

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

13,668 views • 29 days ago

When I was in pro ball, even throwing in the mid 90s, I never did this. But I honestly think it’s one of the biggest things that’s going to help me get to 100 miles an hour. One of the most underrated ways to throw harder is to implement cross training. Now, cross training in terms of pitching just means you’ll be using something other than the baseball to throw. For example, you see Yamamoto in the big leagues right now. He attributes a lot of his velocity gains to javelin throwing, and he’s thrown the javelin for many, many years. There’s another pitcher who’s one of the best pitchers in college baseball right now in Japan who’s up to 102 miles an hour and attributes a lot of his success to throwing the volleyball and the volleyball teaching him how to move. For myself, I use a football to clean up my arm action. When you use different implements, it’ll give you a new stimulus. It can clean up a lot of the mechanics that you wouldn’t be able to with the baseball itself. For myself and my training to throw 100 miles an hour, I use all of these implements for my arm action. Now, I have a tendency of forearm flyout where my forearm flies out this way, and so I want to keep it a little bit more directed toward the plate. Some of the best ways to do this is to throw the javelin. Because to throw the javelin far, you can’t be flying out. You need to go straight through. The football as well needs to be straight through. Also, just hitting the volleyball. I love watching volleyball players hit the volleyball because the upper mechanics are so efficient. So if you feel stuck in your training, start incorporating cross training.
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When I was in pro ball, even throwing in the mid 90s, I never did this. But I honestly think it’s one of the biggest things that’s going to help me get to 100 miles an hour. One of the most underrated ways to throw harder is to implement cross training. Now, cross training in terms of pitching just means you’ll be using something other than the baseball to throw. For example, you see Yamamoto in the big leagues right now. He attributes a lot of his velocity gains to javelin throwing, and he’s thrown the javelin for many, many years. There’s another pitcher who’s one of the best pitchers in college baseball right now in Japan who’s up to 102 miles an hour and attributes a lot of his success to throwing the volleyball and the volleyball teaching him how to move. For myself, I use a football to clean up my arm action. When you use different implements, it’ll give you a new stimulus. It can clean up a lot of the mechanics that you wouldn’t be able to with the baseball itself. For myself and my training to throw 100 miles an hour, I use all of these implements for my arm action. Now, I have a tendency of forearm flyout where my forearm flies out this way, and so I want to keep it a little bit more directed toward the plate. Some of the best ways to do this is to throw the javelin. Because to throw the javelin far, you can’t be flying out. You need to go straight through. The football as well needs to be straight through. Also, just hitting the volleyball. I love watching volleyball players hit the volleyball because the upper mechanics are so efficient. So if you feel stuck in your training, start incorporating cross training.

Josh Gessner

29,140 views • 10 months ago

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 views • 2 months ago

The most butchered exercise in the gym? The face pull. And men over 40 are the ones who need it done right. Standing, heavy, yanking the rope to your nose, and leaning back to move the stack. Why do I loathe this approach? Because it trains momentum and ironically, feeds the exact posture you're trying to fix. My version is different. Seated, two ropes, roller between the knees, and a slight forward lean. Why each piece matters: Two ropes = one rope forces your hands together and cramps the finish. Two give each arm its own line, so both shoulder blades pull all the way back and rotate up. The side that's been hiding can't. Seated + roller squeeze = pelvis anchored, ribs stacked, no lean-back cheat. The rep comes from the back of your shoulders, not your bodyweight falling backward. Slight forward lean = the cable now pulls your upper back toward the rounded position it lives in all day at your desk. Every rep is your rear delts and mid-back fighting their way out of it but under load. That's the fight that changes posture. Standing upright, you never load that range. The face pull done right is 25 years of desk and pressing, reversed one rep at a time. As always... use a lighter weight and slow down the reps (especially the lowering portion of the movement). Quick concentrics are fine. Trust me: If the stack is moving fast with too much body language, you're not getting the benefits that you think you are.
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The most butchered exercise in the gym? The face pull. And men over 40 are the ones who need it done right. Standing, heavy, yanking the rope to your nose, and leaning back to move the stack. Why do I loathe this approach? Because it trains momentum and ironically, feeds the exact posture you're trying to fix. My version is different. Seated, two ropes, roller between the knees, and a slight forward lean. Why each piece matters: Two ropes = one rope forces your hands together and cramps the finish. Two give each arm its own line, so both shoulder blades pull all the way back and rotate up. The side that's been hiding can't. Seated + roller squeeze = pelvis anchored, ribs stacked, no lean-back cheat. The rep comes from the back of your shoulders, not your bodyweight falling backward. Slight forward lean = the cable now pulls your upper back toward the rounded position it lives in all day at your desk. Every rep is your rear delts and mid-back fighting their way out of it but under load. That's the fight that changes posture. Standing upright, you never load that range. The face pull done right is 25 years of desk and pressing, reversed one rep at a time. As always... use a lighter weight and slow down the reps (especially the lowering portion of the movement). Quick concentrics are fine. Trust me: If the stack is moving fast with too much body language, you're not getting the benefits that you think you are.

Simmo

30,189 views • 1 month ago

Oh no. Does someone wanna tell these undersized guys throwing ~100 that they need to “get into their pec”. I’m thinking they’re not deep enough! If a right handed throw is ultimately just a rotation to the left, all the “pec stretch” is is just a reflection of the upper half delaying in sequence (but still ultimately turning the same way). Let’s get first things first, there’s way more things going on in the shoulder girdle than the pecs— and this elastic energy transfer is occurring through the entire system (from the trunk all the way through the shoulder girdle). The ‘stretch’ you’re seeing aesthetically is largely based on relative joint stiffness, tissue quality, the ability to move proximal to distal, and the timing of rotation. Honestly, it wouldn’t be a bad thing if we brought back a little flat arm syndrome. At true weight bearing foot-plant, you can see both of these guys are moving into relative external rotation, however, they’re still in IR. Oh no! But their arm isn’t at 90 degrees?! How can they get deep in their pec, bro?! Maybe it’s more about the timing and sequencing than it is you attaching an arbitrary value to your ‘pec contribution’ by checking out from a behind camera angle how much space there is between your forearm and your head? #PecsAreTheOnlyMuscleInTheShoulderGirdle
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Oh no. Does someone wanna tell these undersized guys throwing ~100 that they need to “get into their pec”. I’m thinking they’re not deep enough! If a right handed throw is ultimately just a rotation to the left, all the “pec stretch” is is just a reflection of the upper half delaying in sequence (but still ultimately turning the same way). Let’s get first things first, there’s way more things going on in the shoulder girdle than the pecs— and this elastic energy transfer is occurring through the entire system (from the trunk all the way through the shoulder girdle). The ‘stretch’ you’re seeing aesthetically is largely based on relative joint stiffness, tissue quality, the ability to move proximal to distal, and the timing of rotation. Honestly, it wouldn’t be a bad thing if we brought back a little flat arm syndrome. At true weight bearing foot-plant, you can see both of these guys are moving into relative external rotation, however, they’re still in IR. Oh no! But their arm isn’t at 90 degrees?! How can they get deep in their pec, bro?! Maybe it’s more about the timing and sequencing than it is you attaching an arbitrary value to your ‘pec contribution’ by checking out from a behind camera angle how much space there is between your forearm and your head? #PecsAreTheOnlyMuscleInTheShoulderGirdle

Ben Baggett

33,267 views • 11 months 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

76,041 views • 2 months ago

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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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.

Josh Gessner

37,682 views • 7 months ago