Today’s focus is going to be on “Strength-Speed” which is a type of strength that is described as moving a moderately heavy load at a moderate speed.  This is really important because when we initiate the pitching delivery we are in fact moving a moderate load, in the form of our own body weight, at…

I wanted to give everyone who reads this site access to a webinar I created earlier this year since it has been a while between blog articles and I don’t want to lose you. This webinar is from a online summit I was part of that Bill Massulo organized.  I’ve agreed to do another for…

This article is going to focus on the type of strength that most people associate with the weight room or use when describing someone as being “strong”.   In the previous article, we learned about the different types of strength and where they sit on a force-velocity curve. what about potetial Lifting heavy weights has…

I wanted to be one of the first to welcome Nate Pearson and his 100+ mph fastball to Canada.  Nate is the HARD throwing right handed pitcher from the College of Central Florida that the Blue Jays picked up in the first round.  He’s the hardest throwing prospect the Jays have had since Noah Syndergaard,…

How strong do you need to be to throw a baseball really, really hard?  This is a tricky question to answer since there are a lot of factors at play. For example, I mentioned way back in the anthropometrics article that you wouldn’t expect Aaron Sanchez to lift the same amount when bench pressing or…