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Tax
and Baseball Pitching Drills
Whenever I hear or
read the word tax, I shutter a little. The word
gives me thoughts of something I’d rather not pay.
It gives me feelings about getting my taxes done
before the deadline. UUuuuggghhh!
Today’s discussion
isn’t about paying the government, don’t worry. I
received a great email from Leon, one of out
BioForce Faithful parents about his son’s warm up
routine and pitching drills.
Leon wrote…
"Bill
“My son is LHP 16
years old. I am a "runner". Not 16 unfortunately
(47)
Part of a runner's
training is to over tax the body and then
recover.
This can happen in
two ways....
One - a very long
run then recover. Secondly, a short run where
you run flat out even if just for 400 hundred or
1000 yards. Then recover. This is believed to
help in improving base speed when running 5 km,
10 km half marathon etc....
Following this (I
hesitate to use the word) logic...
My question is -
for pitchers.... after a solid warm-up, should a
pitcher work on throwing let say 6 or 7 pitches
outside his comfort zone?? Then the next week 7
or 8 then 8 or 9. In order to increase his base
speed of his pitch? Or is the risk too great??"
Leon
Leon, thanks for the
great question.
The quick answer to
your question is that I do support having pitchers
getting out of their comfort zones in all aspects of
pitching. Velocity training, control training,
deception training, etc.
The problem I see
with most pitchers is that their bodies, most
particularly, the shoulder, is not in good enough
shape to handle the more aggressive throwing action.
If their mechanics are also out of sequence or we
have too much posture change while throwing, the
extra stresses on the joints are probably not worth
the extra workload.
Some so-called
pitching gurus out in cyber space are promoting
weighted balls as a training philosophy. I’m not
really big on over weight training while
throwing….in other words using weighted balls. We do
some of that at our academy, but it’s not for
everyone. Again, most pitchers out there are not
conditioned properly to handle the extra weight.
More on that another time.
Some may see this as
a sales pitch, but I do want to mention I cover this
topic very extensively in my DVD “How to Become and
More Explosive, Athletic, and Powerful Pitcher”. We
talk a lot about under-weight training for pitchers.
I do believe we can use underweighted balls to help
train the arm to go faster.
We also talk
extensively on the DVD on how to challenge the body
to push the envelope when we are talking about
velocity gains. Needs to be done. How will we make
these velocity gains if we don’t work at it.
Leon, thanks again
for the great question.
Now for the answer to
last weeks trivia.
The answer is Greg
Maddux. We have one BioForce Family member who gets
me the answers via email almost faster than I send
out the question. Ken, I will find one I’ll stump
you on.
Here’s the question
for this week…
“Who has the lowest batting
average to win an AL batting title?
Until next time…
Keep training like a
champion today!
P.S. If you are
looking for that link to find out more on our ““How
to Become and More Explosive, Athletic, and Powerful
Pitcher” DVD ...
CLICK HERE….
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