Improving Your Physical Abilities Most important in the initial stages of improving your physical abilities is to develop greater strength together with flexibility. Keep in mind that flexibility by itself is of little value in improving your performance. You must develop strength through the new found range of motion as you develop additional flexibility. By […]
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Pitching Technique The more you understand how you throw different pitches and the actions that you rely on for most of your power the more you can improve or enhance what you are already doing. It will enable you to modify or change your technique so that you can throw a greater variety of pitches
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General vs. Specialized Exercises A. General Strength Exercises General exercises are those exercises that are used in overall body conditioning. They are not directly related to the specific actions encountered in pitching. Because of this, they do relatively little to increase your functional potential for improving throwing speed and accuracy. These are the exercises typically
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Improving Your Performance The most prevalent method used for improving performance is to pitch more. Coaches make corrections in pitching form and the pitcher continues to throw. This method has some merit. However, it should be noted that most of the corrections made are in the preparatory movements, i.e., initial stance and stride or in
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Introduction “Everyone knows how to throw”, I am confident that you have heard this expression many times and may in fact be a firm believer. Because of it’s almost universal acceptance very few coaches believe differently and as a result do not spend much time teaching players how to throw more effectively.. For some unknown
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