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Are You Prepared for the Upcoming Season?
Is your season starting up soon? Has your schedule been released? Do you have 2+ games per week? And 3+ practices per week? If you answered “yes” to several of the above, then I have a follow-up question for you: Is your arm and body prepared for that? If you’ve been...
What do Constraint Drills Actually Do? The Biomechanics of Drop-steps & Janitors
Introduction Throwing drills have been a staple in every pitching program around the world for years. The most recent iteration has been “constraint” drills, in which we subtly modify the way our athletes are performing a throw. We can do this by altering the...
91mph to 98mph: The Evan Elliott Story – A Movement Review
Introduction Lennon just took you through the biomechanical review of the changes we saw over the past few months using PitchAI with our guy Evan Elliot, which I will link here. This post serves to act as a complementary piece to his article, and shed further...
The Importance of Understanding Etiology and Study Design: A Look at the UCL and Balance
You see a biomechanical deficiency during a throw, and decide to fact-check your intuitions against some peer-reviewed data. You read someone’s post about the importance of eccentrics in a lifting program, and want to confirm that using a research article....
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