With all pitching mechanics: You can tweak this, adjust that, copy him, I saw this one thing on IG reels: It’s all just words if you can’t PHYSICALLY perform it Many guys would benefit from mechanical improvements, but they lack what they need to actually improve: 1) Strength 2) Athleticism What often looks like “poor mechanics” typically isn’t because of lack of understanding, or lack of “working hard”: but rather, physical shortcomings that don’t allow for the correct move

There’s only two ways to get faster: Increase stride length Increase stride frequency Everything else is just social media marketing Increasing stride length, and increasing stride frequency however, are both BYPRODUCTS of sprinting faster. Meaning for example you can’t just TELL an athlete to take bigger strides, because if they’re not physically capable of increasing their stride length, they’ll end up overstriding and actually be slower. In order to improve speed then, i

The Tommy John epidemic in baseball has skyrocketed from 1 in 7 pitchers 15 years ago, to now 1 in 3 Many things have been blamed: the overall emphasis on velocity; greater horizontal ball movement (sweeper/splinker popularity); even the pitch clock While some of those may have validity, the research pins two major catalysts: ➡️ Pitching more than 100 innings in a year increases injury risk 3x ➡️ Pitching more than 8 months out of the year increases injury risk 5x The key wor

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 posit

A former Milb pitcher recently came in looking to make a comeback. He discussed what had led to this point and said that getting released in his view “made no sense”, and the reason as far as he could tell, was “the organization didn’t like me” Unfortunately Baseball Reference told a different story: he had a 9.38 ERA over 2 seasons of low A ball, with a 91 avg FB velo-far off what’s needed to be effective in minor league ball, let alone MLB If you’re complaining about why yo

On your iPhone go to settings -> screen time -> see all activity If you’re the average American teenager, you’re spending 7 hours and 22 minutes a DAY on your phone So you do have the time. All the time. For everything. Your problem isn’t time It’s application You can watch marketing reels all day about this arm slot and that bat path and flexibility and yoga and towel drills, but it’s all just hypothetical until you actually take action The key is to: 1️⃣ Understand the CORR

Tweak this, adjust that, move your hands here, “snap it”, it’s all just words if you don’t have the strength and athleticism to actually make it work I’ve seen good swings that sat the bench in college And I’ve seen “bad” swings make MLB Funny how all the “swing adjustments” and “mechanics tweaks” seem to work really well on guys who are tall/strong/athletic, and not so much on guys that are short/weak/slow This is because increasing size and strength improves EVERY hitter, b

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

If any of us were going to make it out of D2 and do something it was Andy Andy was 22 years old our freshman year coming off doing a 4 year stretch 6’4” 220 strong and athletic, and 6 months into our Fr year he was 92-94mph (on the old juggs gun, so 94-96 now) Looking back I don’t know how organizations would’ve viewed a guy that’d done a 4 year stretch But sadly we never got to find out Because weenie hut Jr Baseball culture got to him first He started saying things li