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Mythbusting The Fears About Eccentric Exercises

You may have heard that “Eccentric exercise makes you sore, causes tightness post-training, and should be avoided during the competitive season.”  But this is poor advice that may be leaving athletes undertrained.  In this article, we'll cover some unique information about eccentric exercises for baseball training that's not well-known in the baseball performance community. What's…
June 7, 2021Share Post

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Why Every Baseball Player Needs a Weekly Arm Assessment

Strength and length are critical ingredients to accelerating and decelerating the throwing arm.  Firstly, appropriate muscle length provides the range of motion to load the arm like a catapult, and secondly strength maintains the position of the arm in the shoulder socket from layback to ball release. To ensure arm health and the highest level of…
May 19, 2021Share Post

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Improve Your Arm Care by Training Your Non-Throwing Arm

Baseball players represent an interesting population in how they treat their throwing arms.  It's often ritualistic in how they handle their throwing arm as their prized possession.  Players are constantly conscious of their arms, ensuring they don’t sleep on them wrong, avoid overuse, and sometimes avoid lifting heavy weights altogether. Or in other cases, some…
April 20, 2021Share Post

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Balance is Key to a Strong Rotator Cuff for Baseball Performance

"You can't speed it up if you can't slow it down." This adage means that you can only move with the speed your body can decelerate. For that reason, deceleration strength is a crucial component for the health and performance of baseball players, and it involves a balance of strength on either side of the…
March 16, 2021Share Post

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Stop Icing After You Pitch to Improve Recovery

In 1978, Dr. Gabe Mirkin pushed the term RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, & Elevation.) He has since changed his point of view on the use of ice and compression as it relates to healing and says that it may actually have the reverse effect and inhibit healing.  This is largely unknown by the baseball…
January 28, 2021Share Post

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Are You Ready for a Velocity Program? Take This Assessment to Find Out.

Baseball velocity programs (Velo programs) are among the most common training protocols utilized by coaches across the country. These programs often use weighted balls to optimize throwing efficiency, train arm speed, and increase external rotation during layback. Collectively these changes increase throwing velocity, but intense throwing methods do increase the risk of injury. How do you…
June 3, 2020Share Post

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How The Arm Care App Will End the Injury Epidemic in Baseball

Summary: The ArmCare App now provides the best arm care for youth pitchers.  This technology will keep baseball players healthy using technology that tracks changes in a player's strength and range of motion and then delivers custom arm care training and recovery. Arm care has become commonplace in baseball.  Players and coaches at all levels now…
May 28, 2020Share Post

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Why Your Arm Care Program Needs Lower Body Training

The concept of arm care was born from players coming back from rehab. Players and coaches thought...if these were the exercises players needed to do to rehab their arms, then why don’t we incorporate them as a preventative measure. Alas...PreHab was born. The classic form of arm care is band work for the scap and…
April 20, 2020Share Post

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4 Proven Ways Arm Care Increases Velocity

Summary: If you're after gains in your pitching velocity, then start by dialing in your arm care routine.  This article will reveal how an arm care program can strengthen weak links, improve throwing mechanics, and maximize energy transfer to yield baseball velocity gains. Smart players at all levels use an arm care routine to help…
April 15, 2020Share Post

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Maximize Your Arm Care By Using Your Grip

A recent article went around pumping up the advantages of wrist cuffs when doing arm care. Although the advice was well-intended, an even better option presents itself when you look deeper at the evidence. You can read the article here: Why You Should Be Using The Wrist Cuffs On Your J-Bands, but the main point…
April 1, 2020Share Post

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