Can You Make Gains During The Season?
It was 9:00 AM last Tuesday, and I was on [...]
Find Your Dog
Everyone, and I mean everyone has a dog in ‘em. You wanna throw hard, you gotta find your dog. Over the past 3 summers we’ve worked with more than 450 players from all over the world in our Summer Training Program. If they stayed 4 weeks, the average guy gained over 4 mph on his fastball. For most of them, it wasn’t about adding anything. It was about using what we call SAVAGE Training to reveal the dog they already had inside them.
Anatomy Of Hip-To-Shoulder Separation
Unless you’ve been living in the baseball equivalent of a Himalayan monastery, you’ve heard pitching and hitting coaches avowing the importance of “hip-to-shoulder separation.” I’m not exactly sure when it began, but sometime in the last several years, someone coined the term, and it spread like wildfire. According to advocates of this tenet, pitchers and hitters should rotate the pelvis while the torso remains closed for as long as possible. The resultant diagonal stretch through the trunk allows the athlete to take advantage of the elastic properties of the abdominals, and chest muscles to store and then unload energy to be transferred from the lower half to the arm or bat.
The Anatomy of “Lead Leg Blocking.” It’s Corruptive And Has To Go!
The bottom line is this: Pitching is like picking up chicks. The first move is critical. You have to get the first move right, or you probably don’t have much of a chance.
More blogs:
Reflections From The Dad of Seattle Mariners First Round Draft Pick, Logan Gilbert
I am touched beyond words. We cannot adequately express how happy we are for Logan, Keith, and the entire Gilbert family. It will continue to be our distinct honor to play a role in his development and his career.
Beware Of The Cult Of Average
At the ARMory we study OUTLIERS so my players can become THAT GUY! While science seeks to find common denominators among the normal, it propagates “The Cult of Average.” Average is a code word for mediocre, and that is not our goal at The Florida Baseball ARMory.
Can You Make Gains During The Season?
It was 9:00 AM last Tuesday, and I was on [...]
The Anatomy of “Lead Leg Blocking.” It’s Corruptive And Has To Go!
The bottom line is this: Pitching is like picking up chicks. The first move is critical. You have to get the first move right, or you probably don’t have much of a chance.
Wait, wait, wait, we’re about to tell Tom Glavine’s son how to throw a change-up?
Original Article Washington Post - 9/9/21: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/09/09/peyton-glavine-nationals-prospect/ Peyton Glavine, son [...]
Client Testimonials
Here’s what our clients have to say about the Florida Baseball ARMory...