What We Currently Know About the Lower Half Essentially, nothing. There are studies which have linked lower half force production to ball velocity, and other studies which show very little correlation between the two. One study noted particularly strong correlations between force production and wris...
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...
Technology promises to improve the baseball training landscape on many fronts – in scouting, player development, and even logistical/organizational ways, too. Many of the new products rely on cutting-edge technology, often untested in the field. In a former life, I served as a validation techn...
We get this question a lot – what the heck is the difference between PlyoCare Balls and Elite Weighted Baseballs? Is there a difference? In fact, they are pretty substantially different. PlyoCare Balls The soft-covered PlyoCare balls are primarily meant for submaximal throwing and for constrai...
In Hacking the Kinetic Chain, we’ve developed a system that has evolved over six years of research and development and took over two years to fully write. Unlike other products, we do not shy away from the reality that all other “gurus” ignore – developing elite-level velocit...
