 Everybody, it's Eric Johnson from AirTayTeresNation. We went through Yumi Ando, and he came out from Tokyo, Japan. Strength training is obviously really critical for throwers. We kind of wanted to look at his Olympic lifting technique. We wanted to look at what he was doing for rotational core work. What's his ratio between his hamstrings and his quads? This is a real common thing, right? Everybody tends to focus on benches and squats. But are they doing enough assistance? Key accessory work that's going to help that gross posture. So we ran Yumi through a number of different lifts, kind of evaluated his clean, his snatch, his squat, his core rotation, all that kind of stuff, and to get a sense of what his training is like and is it helping optimize his throwing. So one of the reasons we like the barbell work, you notice that we're going to do left side and right side. What it's going to do is really amplify and intensify a position. So this is why it's a good training thing to add. But here we were just kind of showing Yumi his correct path with his lower body and how the upper body is supposed to move. So one of the things we wanted to do is let Yumi know that how he was hitting his block and how he needs to be hitting his block, the barbell just simply amplified how we were able to do that and make him feel those positions. And again, what's funny, as you can see here, we're communicating using the translator app, which was obviously a huge help. It adds a different dimension to the training. Now, common mistake for Yumi and a lot of throwers is that as they come around, they're not leading with the lower body properly ahead. So what's happening is he winds up opening the upper body a little too much and the barbell is really going to kind of help exaggerate that. You'll see that in our system, we utilize barbells, dumbbells, weight plates. We've put this in previous videos, but the idea here is to create different stimulus. And so we're going to be addressing all the various keys in our system. So this is what we would refer to as power position training. We're looking at pillar five, pillar six. We're kind of timing up the block arm, the block leg, the delivery side. These are all the important things that need to get addressed and the resistance really helps get to that point faster. Then we switched around to snatches and you can see Yumi was predominantly doing hang snatches, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but some of his motion was a little too, wasn't linear enough. Okay. Hang and full range and power. We wanted to have Yumi work into the full range of motion. He's pretty much doing a hang power. We think that's really great, but one of the things is we recommend is you wanna have that full range. When you go to the full range of motion, oftentimes in your Olympic lifts and things like that, it's gonna help the elongation of the hamstrings and the hips and the full range of motion is a good thing to add into the training. It's not always necessary, but I think there's a lot of value to it and that's what we were trying to communicate here to Yumi. Yeah. Okay, good. All the way, all the way. Yep. Okay. We're gonna be explaining where the bar is, how the lats stay tight, teach him how to properly load through the hamstring. We think this is perfect example. Good, strong quads, but you can see when we tried to get into the full range of motion, he would have a little bit of a hard time. Right here, we were focusing on things like RDLs and so we're really trying to teach him how to create the right hinge, load up the hamstrings and the glutes. Really, really important for throwers to really work that posterior change. Good. All the way. Touch it to the ground. Yep, there we go. Good. There we go, nice. Yep. So you'll notice that we started out with some lighter weight. I think it's progression is super important for throwers. A lot of times you wanna learn motor control, you wanna learn range of motion, you can kinda hear Yumi previously just kinda grunting a little bit with the lighter weight because he's not used to fully elongating the muscles in those positions and so this is where we wanted to focus. It's the ying and the yang. All the way, good. All the way, all the way. Sink, sink, sink. Yep, there we go. Yeah, there you go. One of the things is as we went through and we showed him the full range of motion on like an overhead squat, now we wanna do an integrate in some recovery work so the mouth fascia work, foam rollers, med balls, those sorts of things are really good. It's really important that you understand the sequence of how to properly administer the self mouth fascia release work. This is what we did, we kinda took him through and we're showing him the key muscles that coordinate to the specific lifts. So then obviously you could see here, we moved on to working through where's he at with his squats, pretty good range of motion, pretty good squatter, pretty good bencher and here's a perfect example. Yumi actually has probably from a ratio standpoint his bench is as big as lift that's not the thing that's creating the biggest impact on his throw. And if you looked earlier in the videos you would see hamstrings and some of those other issues were definitely bigger areas of focus for him. How we structure the program, we were just looking at base assessment, finding those things very similar to how we approach the throw, kinda determine where's the starting point, what technical habits need to be fixed and kinda run them through again our stages just like we do with our throwing chain reaction system. We have our strength stages and the difference between weight training and throwing is that you're literally targeting exercises that are gonna directly attack the weaknesses. So hopefully you found today's video helpful. Be sure to comment below. If you'd like to learn more information about strength training for throwers be sure to click the link in the description or in the bio and we will see you on the next video.