At some point in their careers, many baseball players have to spend time under the care of a medical provider. What we tell athletes under that care can have long term psychological effects that present themselves in physical manifestations. Traditionally, the standard of care has been to identify...
When ASMI’s weighted-ball study Biomechanical Analysis of Weighted-Ball Exercises for Baseball Pitchers was released, we were excited for many reasons. One of the big reasons was that we would be able to replicate this study. We wrote about that study at length in our article Weighted Baseball Resea...
Weighted baseball training has become ever more popular at both the amateur and professional level. Several MLB teams consult with Driveline Baseball to provide products and services to their athletes and coaches, and college players around the country are using forms of overload and underload train...
This article builds on the previous research that we did with the MotusTHROW Sleeve that looked at the relationship between elbow stress and velocity. Here, we will look at how those relationships have changed (or if they did) under a larger sample and discuss why normalizing stress with velocity is...
Offspeed/breaking pitches such as the curveball and slider have received so much attention and scorn in the last few years that they are part of the reason for an increase in arm injuries. In this article, we will attempt to examine this claim with relevant research and data that we’ve collected in...
With the recent release of ASMI’s Biomechanical Analysis of Weighted-Ball Exercises for Baseball Pitchers we decided that it was appropriate to discuss its findings in a more in depth review. The first part of this article is going to look at the details of the ASMI study itself. Our commentar...
In the previous post we discussed the importance of a ballplayer’s first year of strength-training, and how to go about making the most of that first year. Today we will extend from that topic by discussing further the great window of adaptation that novice athletes possess, and why it is impo...
