Tag: throwing velocity
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What Are Good Pitching Mechanics?
What Are Good Pitching Mechanics? This question is one of the most crucial and frequently asked by players and parents alike. Ask 10 different baseball experts, and you’ll probably get 10 different answers—if not more. However, standardizing an answer was the goal of a 2023 journal article published in The Journal of Sports Health titled,…
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You need stronger legs to Pitch than we thought!!!
We all know that you need strong legs to pitch but a new study, which isn’t even published yet, is telling us that they need to be stronger than we originally thought. Jonathan Broxton, now with the Royals, needs his big tree trunk legs to handle his big frame (6’4″ – 295lbs) and produce his big…
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Jogging Kills Your Power – Studies You Should Know About
Baseball is a game of POWER, power pitchers and power hitters dominate the game and get the attention of coaches, scouts and fans. Every play in baseball lasts only a few seconds and the two main actions, swing and throwing, requires less than a second. Despite these facts endurance training has been emphasised for years which…
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Pitching 8 months a Year Might not be a Great Idea – Studies you should know about
The study in question today comes from the Dr. Andrews lab in the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama. Risk Factors for Shoulder and Elbow Injuries in Adolescent Baseball Pitchers By: Samuel J. Olsen II, MD, Glenn S. Fleisig,* PhD, Shouchen Dun, MS, Jeremy Loftice, and James R. Andrews, MD What did they want…
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Studies You Should Know About – Factors for Increased Velocity
The name of the study: Comparison of Kinematic and Temporal Parameters Between Different Pitch Velocity Groups Overview: This research split up their subjects into either high or low velocity throwers based on their…. you guessed it – throwing velocity. They then analysed their mechanics to determine what were the main differences between the two groups in…
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