Strength in Numbers #92
ArmCare Elite is growing, and so are the questions coming in. One member who I genuinely admire is Tim Campos, who is the Director of Player Development at the Albuquerque Baseball Academy in New Mexico.
Like all our ArmCare Elite Members, Tim is dual certified, a Certified ArmCare Specialist, and a Certified Pitching Biomechanist who most certainly puts the pieces together between strength and skill, dynamometry, and 3D motion capture, and how to communicate coaching principles to his athletes.
One of the things I enjoy most about these early interactions with ArmCare Elite members is how much idea generation occurs, the vital questions presented, and the intricate ways we tackle these problems.
Tim sent me a few posts on end-range strength (e.g., in layback) testing and asked my thoughts.
In theory, for some, this would make sense, as much of our catastrophic injuries in baseball occur in layback instead of at ball release, so intuitively, it would make sense to train athletes in extreme ranges in layback, right?
Well, end-range testing and training occur in many teams and organizations. But given the critical observation necessary to make end-range testing safe, I do not support it.
This week I’ll tell you why in our latest article:
Beyond the Limits: The Hidden Dangers of Strength Testing and Training a Player in Layback
