Rehabilitation of the injured throwing arm should not be directed simply toward beginning strengthening exercises and returning the athlete to throwing as soon as possible. The total comprehensive program has b
Our rationale for including a parallel pretest was to account for individual differences in muscular strength and prior experience, which are crucial for javelin throwing. To reduce the danger of a potential impact of the pretest, we conducted the pretest a whole week before the intervention. This...
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Three Arm Strength Exercises to Improve Softball Throwing Velocity Throwing Drills & Tips / By Dan Blewett Most fastpitch players need to improve their softball throwing speed and accuracy. When they focus on arm strengthening exercises, there are usually untapped miles per hour that we can unlock...
“After the season ended in 2022,” she said in a recent appearance on the Throw Big Throw Far Podcast, “we made some changes to my strength training, and Kyle got the job as throws coach at the university of South Dakota, so we moved to Vermillion. The move helped give me a fresh...
The rehabilitation specialist must have a sound understanding of the throwing motion as well as any biomechanical implications on the body, contributions throughout the kinetic chain, range of motion, and strength characteristics specific to the thrower as well as proper tissue loading principles. It ...
“The great throwers,” says Mitch, “each have their super power. For Joe, it’s his strength. WithTom Walsh, it’s his incredible speed. But for Ryan, it’s his instant recall of the feel of every throw. Because of his ability to feel what went right and what went wrong with ...
If you do not have the natural ability necessary for good velocity, then go ahead and be a master at everything else and take it as far as you can. You are near the age of taking this serious, you will naturally gain some velocity through growth and strength and maybe even increased ...
“I have certain ranges I am looking at whether we are working on max strength, absolute strength, or speed strength, and I don’t let the bar speed go below a certain level. If it does, we stop or we do another set with less weight, but we can keep pushing the weight up as lon...
The combination of high stress and frequency that is experienced by overhead athletes often leads to several asymmetries of the scapula. There are asymmetries that are normal adaptations and others that are abnormal and problematic to the function of the