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Who is Responsible for Stopping the Injury Epidemic in Baseball?

From the ArmCare IQ: Why Pitchers Get Hurt (and It's NOT Overuse,) we found that fatigue is the #1 cause of throwing injuries. The primary reason fatigue is such a factor is that it results in compensations in a pitcher's biomechanics and movement patterns, exposing the arm to excessive loads.…
November 2, 2021Share Post

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Strength in Numbers

Welcome to The SPEAR Training Concept

Strength in Numbers #17 I have been observing arm care programs for quite some time and have not seen a comprehensive approach to conditioning the throwing arm for high-intensity stress.   For the most part, training programs would involve light dumbbells and cuff weights, which provide little to no muscle irradiation.  As a result, the activation of…
October 31, 2021Share Post

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Strength in Numbers

How Strong Do Baseball Players Need to Be?

Strength in Numbers #16 A few days ago, I had the chance to be on a zoom meeting with some extraordinary gentlemen in  the world of baseball performance. I recommend following each of them for their contributions and insight into the sport of baseball, here's a quick introduction: Dr. David Szymanski  is a Full Professor,…
October 24, 2021Share Post

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The Way We Train the Throwing Arm Needs a Makeover

Strength in Numbers #15 A few weeks ago, Kyle Matsel, a physical therapist and leading researcher into arm care training trends, came on our podcast to discuss his research and what is wrong with the current training approaches. He mentioned that currently, training without assessment may be causing further injury, as the biggest culprit mentioned in…
October 17, 2021Share Post

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What 600+ Coaches Really Think About Arm Care Training (More Than Velocity #13)

Kyle is a Physical Therapist, researcher, and professor at the University of Evansville, and has spent a great deal of time working on how to reduce injuries in the sport of baseball. He recently published an article on the findings of a nationwide survey on high school baseball coaches and their perceptions of arm…
October 13, 2021Share Post

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What We Learned From A Pitching Pioneer

Strength in Numbers #14 Weighted ball training was heavily researched in the 1990s and early 2000s by Coop DeRenne, a professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  Here's a list of his  research publications .  However, even before the research, legends in throwing training such as Mike Marshall and Tom House integrated…
October 10, 2021Share Post

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Underground Secrets of Weighted Ball Training from an MLB Pitching Guru

Muscle irradiation is likely a new term for you, but with an old definition, and we’re going to make a case of why it is the most important feature in weighted ball training.  It started back in the early 1900s with Sir Charles Sherrington, a Hall of Famer in neurophysiology, who used the word…
October 8, 2021Share Post

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