Categorizing pitchers based on their arm slots is easy.  You can see it with your naked eye and the language within baseball already exists. But is the arm slot the only mechanical difference between these types of deliveries?  And if they are different doesn’t this mean that we as coaches should have some cues and…

Today’s focus will be on that speed portion of the force-velocity (F-V) curve.  This is exciting, to me at least, because throwing a baseball over 90mph requires a healthy dose of speed. For all of the articles that I’ve written about the F-V curve in this series about Customized Training and Mechanics, I’ve used the…

Speed-Strength is defined as “speed in conditions of strength”.  This means that speed is the first priority and strength is secondary.  So we will be using a lightweight and we are moving it quickly.  How fast you ask? In the range of 1.0 to 1.3 m/s if we were to measure bar speed. I’ve spoken…

First of all I need to apologize for that cheesy title but I really wanted to write this article even if I couldn’t come up with anything better. My goal in this article is to convince you that we should do away with the terms “tall n’ fall” and “drop n’ drive” and replace them…

Weighted jumps are a great tool to help build out some key parts of this physical profile concept.  Plus they’re an awesome training tool that can help increase the amount of power that our athletes can produce in a safe manner.  It’s awesome anytime we can pick an exercise that kills two birds with one…