Pitchers Build Explosive Lower Body And Reduce Injury

[shizzlefoo7]

This is depressing no wonder baseball players are pussies they are tiny ad shit. Play lacrosse if you want to play a sport not a game

[brocket96]

more like expolsive diarrhea bullshit.

[noobssincereal]

our strength and conditioning coach on my team has us lunge and then turn and then stand up and grab the tip of our toe also stretching our calf muscles

[leftyDM]

If any athlete immediately just began by doing explosive exercises before first building a general overall strength and fitness base then injury rates would be sky high.

Explosiveness such as plyometrics comes after you build a strength and stability base.

Dick Mills

[DirtBiker205]

Dick, not to rain on your parade, but if its a serious athlete they should already have an overall strength and fitness base.

[KMAC71]

@leftyDM

Both these lunges and squats need some serious fine tuning. The "knee over the toe" although popular, needs to be much more. If the knee translates forward on mili-meter before the one's center or pelvis moves, the muscle you are actually working, the glutes shut off.

Here is a test. Stand straight up. Put you hands on your buttocks. Move both knees forward. Feel what happens. Now do the same thing but start fist by moving your center back like you were to sit. What to u feel?

[reigninblood56]

You advocate explosiveness as the main aspect of your program, but explain to me how you can possibly build that explosiveness by doing slow, controlled movements such as the ones in this video. It just doesn't make sense, which is why I cant even think about your program improving performance.

[casurfer21]

@reigninblood56 when you come up from a lunge your building up the strength in the fast twitch muscles of your legs, which is why lunges, front squats, step ups, and any hamstring exercise you can do (goodmornings, ghr's, etc) help build up the strength of those muscles so when you do explosive activities, you get more out of your core and legs

[KMAC71]

@reigninblood56

Load to explode. Look up potential energy. Think of a sling shot.  Do you jerk it back and then let it go? No you "draw it" back until it cant go any further and then let it fly/ Pitching and hitting are the same. Yet it is not taught the same. You "load" you back leg and keep it loaded and back. You reach out while still load with your front foot. Once that touches the ground you explode with hip rotation and finish. Just like hitting. Dr. Kevin J McGovern, PT, CSCS