1️⃣ You’re not gaining size F=MxA. Throwing a baseball is not like sprinting in soccer or jumping in basketball: you don’t have to overcome your own body weight, necessitating mass specific force. Rather, you’re throwing a 5oz object. Therefore a bigger version of YOU will throw 5oz harder than YOU used to throw it! This is of course reflected at the elite level of the sport, where the average MLB pitcher this past season was 6’3” 225. 2️⃣ You don’t have a throwing progra

The 3 Keys to Getting Faster: ✅ Apply more mass specific force into the ground The ground is a force plate: the more you put in, the more you get back out. This is why getting stronger has such a profound effect on increasing speed, specifically relative strength: you must become very pound for pound strong-not just stronger overall-in order to sprint fast. Fat doesn’t fly, and neither does weak ✅ Improve Technique Speed is a skill; it can be trained. Learning the proper bio

Unless you understand periodization and how to correctly combine means and methods, most programs look pretty good on paper But even many programs that are actually good often fail The reason is many times they’re being performed in a lackluster environment Training to the brain is sympathetic: fight or flight So if you place an athlete in an environment that’s aggressive, where the music is loud, you’re slamming weights, and your training partners are pushing you with positi

Everyone has fallen so in love with the concept of “data” and “technology” that we’ve forgotten “data” doesn’t actually improve performance Even if the correct things are being measured and tracked, it only INFORMS what needs to be done Actual adaptation still comes down to people The individual athlete has to actually DO-consistently-what will cause change Now, finally, you’re getting into what actually takes guys from stuck, to successful: Consistent, daily habits So many b

I wanted to be great I’d dream of MLB and being the next Pedro Martinez And looking back I did have a good work ethic The problem was I didn’t know WHAT to work at So I did physical therapy “workouts” that wouldn’t challenge an 82 year old, ran endless poles, and did all the latest greatest mechanical “fixes” and “special drills” I got exactly what I trained for: I was weak, slow twitch dominant, painfully skinny at 135lbs, and throwing 78 poo with CONSTANT arm pain It wasn’t

I recently saw a former MLB pitcher talking about when he was young He said that as a high schooler he gained 16 mph in just 16 months, rocketing him from 78 mph to 94 mph He noted that in this time frame he didn’t have a growth spurt, rather he “simply threw” and it “just happened” He went on to have an MLB career, and averaged 93.8 mph, just shy of the MLB average What was uncanny to me is that when he described his throwing, it was almost IDENTICAL to what I did in high sc

A problem a lot of athletes have as the levels go up is they’ve never been allowed to grow up They’ve never matured beyond the parent being their mentor/coach/psychologist/decision maker That might’ve been fine in 8th grade, but naturally as a man you want to establish independence-a sense of autonomy So as you grow up your parents making all the decisions causes lower application and resentment Because it’s not YOURS It’s THEIRS You correctly perceive you’re still operating

According to the Science and Practice of Strength Training, “Lifting maximal loads (at or above 90%) is considered superior for improving both intramuscular and intermuscular coordination; the muscles and CNS adapt only to the load placed upon them. This method should be used to bring forth the greatest strength increments. CNS inhibition, if it exists, is reduced with this approach; thus, the maximal number of motor units is activated with optimal discharge frequency and the

I still occasionally hear low level kids say the old fear of “I don’t want to get too big” Usually they’re simply scared of the unknown of how to go about weight training, eating properly, and developing their body physically Which is understandable What they SHOULD be worried about though is what happens if they DON’T get “too big” Because I’ve seen countless kids get stuck not because they lacked skill, but because as they got older and the game got faster, they lacked the