It seems that just about every pitcher, these days, has experienced pain at various points of their pitching career. For a pitcher or a position player, pitching shoulder pain can be a result of one or a combination of three things, lack of strength/mobility, mechanical disconnects and/or overuse. Does the following scenario sound familiar? Continue reading “Pitching Shoulder Pain… Strength, Mobility, Mechanical or Overuse”
Today my interview is with Jeremy Sheetinger, the College Division Liaison with the American Baseball Coaches Association (www.abca.org). I had the pleasure of meeting him recently at the “Be the Best” Conference in Atlantic City. Jeremy has a wealth of knowledge that I think is extremely relevant to what we are doing here at RPP. Continue reading “Interview with Jeremy Sheetinger (College Division Liaison w/ABCA)”
As we look forward to hopefully another great year here at RPP, it’s a good time to review where we have come from and how we got here. RPP’s youth clientele has increased nearly 6-fold since 2012. By any measure, that’s great and we are very proud of what we have accomplished. But explosive growth doesn’t happen for NO apparent reason; it certainly doesn’t happen overnight, and it definitely doesn’t happen without sleepless nights. Continue reading “Growth Doesn’t Happen Without….”
When talking about a complete or comprehensive training or throwing program, the conversation has to begin and end with “recovery”.
Many coaches believe that throwing strikes is more important than increasing velocity and that the two can’t be trained at the same time. I disagree. I believe that training both are equally important and can be trained at the same time. Sometimes it comes down to increasing the efficiency of an athlete’s throwing motion, so that their body works more in sync. Continue reading “Increasing Velocity and Command with a more Stable Stride Pattern”
One of the biggest mechanical disconnects I see when analyzing video from many of our pitchers is the ability to increase leverage on the front leg, from the time of first foot-strike to ball-release. Everyone has different opinions of what is an adequate amount of extension. For me, after analyzing hundreds of high school, college and pro pitchers, I’ve come up with what I consider to be an appropriate range of 20-30 degrees of additional knee extension between first foot-strike and ball-release. Continue reading “Half-Kneeling Overhead Med Ball Throw”
At our recent Pitching Seminar held at RPP, I presented a PowerPoint presentation on Identifying energy leaks in the delivery. The response from players and coaches alike (thanks Sean McGrath – Pitching Coach at U. Mass Lowell) made me realize there is a bit of a void when it comes to reviewing mechanics based on movement. This prompted me to start a series on the topic. Today is about “Knee at First Foot Strike”. Continue reading “Identifying Leaks in the Delivery — Knee at First Foot Strike”
Dear Remote Athlete,
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Welcome to Remote Training at RPP! We’re very excited to be a part of your journey. We are 100% committed to your development and looking forward to helping get you to the next level. During the next several months, with a high degree of commitment and consistent effort, you are going to see significant gains.
Your monthly remote training programs will be placed inside your folders in the Client Portal. Depending on your programming, you will find some or all the following files: Continue reading “Welcome to Remote Training”
As we begin the new year I would like to look back on 2016 and get a bit reflective. A few years ago I started a series in which we posted the most popular blogs of the year. These are the pieces that received the most traffic, according to our hosting statistics (you can click on the title of each to read the article). It seems to be a favorite of everyone so here we go again… Continue reading “The Best of 2016 – Baseball Articles”
Today I sat here reflecting on what a great year it has been and how thankful I am for everything that has come my way. Continue reading “What Separates Good from Great?”
