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…

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…