By Nunzio Signore (B.A. CPT, NASM, FMS, PES)
There are a number of reasons why pitchers lose their velocity late in the season. Today we’re going to take a look at hip internal rotation (IR) of the lead leg, which gets hit hard over a long season and can be one of the contributors to loss of velocity.
Continuous pitching throughout a long season (spring, summer and fall) can leave the lower half (hips, glutes and groin) feeling really “gritty” and in turn causing pitchers to make it up by overdoing it up top late in a season causing anterior shoulder and medial elbow pain.