Many coaches just don’t really understand correct baseball pitching mechanics, and therefore their pitchers spend a lot of their time performing drills that just aren’t very effective for improving pitching speed and accuracy. These coaches likely also have their players lifting weights to build up arm strength, but this isn’t necessary in order to throw a faster pitch. The time spent in pitching workout programs would be much better spent if coaches would focus on the proper pitching techniques and the way that the entire body can be used to generate more power to increase the speed of a pitcher’s pitching.
Some of the more common components of most baseball pitching workouts include pitching drills, lifting weights, using weighted balls, and stretching have proven to actually do more harm to pitchers than good or actually end up decreasing a pitcher’s velocity. This is because most of these methods or drills focus more on the arm than on the body as a whole. The best pitching comes from pitchers who use their whole body when they throw the pitch, and not just their arms. When you use your whole body to throw the pitch, and use it with maximum effectiveness, there are certain postures that your body should go through, and if a pitcher trains his body in how it feels to be in these positions, it becomes natural to use proper pitching mechanics.
While this theory has been proven in many studies, word hasn’t really traveled through the masses and hasn’t really reached most coaches. Consequently, many coaches continue to have their pitchers waste the time spent in pitching workouts with the methods that aren’t as useful in actually improving pitching. More and more parents are learning about how important it is to use their whole body and the correct way to throw a pitch via the use of pitching videos and manuals that are being sold on the internet.
Maybe, as more studies are done showing the typical training methods are not as effective as previously thought, more coaches will switch to more effective baseball pitching workouts methods. Better workouts will focus on leading pitchers through pitching mechanicsb, starting with the end and moving backwards, and on learning how to use their bodies to harness the explosive velocity that can be generated through pitching a baseball correctly.
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February 16, 2009
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