Strength in Numbers #49
It's been quite a long time since I have ventured home to Canada. COVID-19 and having a second child did not make travel any easier. What's amazing is that my childhood friends, who I had grown up playing with, are now coaching their kids and giving back to the game.
I had…
Strength in Numbers #48
Over the course of my baseball career, I have seen many things, and very few experiences have left me feeling incomplete, a fish out of the water, and begging for more information.
At the tail end of our Pacific Northwest Tour was our trip to Driveline which checked all the boxes cognitively, emotionally, and logistically as we…
You can train athletes to improve their jump, however it's the intersection of jump height, lean body mass and take off velocity that matters.
You need to maximize all three to increase pitching momentum which translates into greater throwing velocity.
Strength in Numbers #47
For the first time in my life, I visited the Pacific Northwest and traveled to Seattle for ArmCare's first-ever ArmCare Performance Clinic.
This offering is private and provided at colleges across the country to give theory and application of our product, how to truly utilize the data for onsite help with…
In this week’s More Than Velocity, Ryan wraps up his talk with Mike Killian.
You are in for a ride as the conversation goes from snake venom and rats to rehabbing a bone fracture of a collegiate pitcher throwing 90+.
Strength in Numbers #46
Last week we talked about the issue of pain and getting athletes out of pain when they throw. In this newsletter, we will talk more about throwing programming considerations that can help reduce pain and how to break the pain cycle.
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In this week’s More Than Velocity, we cover the comeback of a Division I pitcher who was experiencing arm pain and the steps it took to get him back on the mound.
The discussion covers drills and training tools related to both the biomechanical and physiologic demands of regaining the throwing…
If your lower body power suffers, you lose ground reaction force, you may be exposing yourself to risk of Tommy John Surgery.
In this ArmCare FX video, we're cover the research on strengthen your lower body in order to take the pressure off of your arms.
This is an important step in injury…
Strength in Numbers #45
I will introduce you to a person in the baseball industry that you have likely never heard of, but you'll get tons of insight from him in this week's newsletter and podcast.
In my career, I have always been interested in those in the industry that work with injured athletes and rebuild deliveries to create resilient throwing arms. But, even…
Mike Killian works with all types of athletes in their return to performance, but his forte is baseball pitchers and getting them out of pain.
He’s interesting because, in the traditional sense of “rehabilitation”, the athlete gets passed from the therapist to the coach and typically loses contact with the therapist when re-entering…