Tagged With "muscle"

Do you have a Superior Labrum Anterior to Posterior (SLAP) tear? Do you want to know how to prevent a SLAP tear, Elbow pain, or any significant injury from happening as a baseball player? Enter Chris, a 15y/o left handed pitcher who was throwing good heat for his age (sitting in the low 80's) without any formal pitcher training. Chris began developing a painful pinch on the back of shoulder early in the Spring of 2014 in the late cocking position. This pain eventually brought him to my...

Hi, I am a freshman baseball player and I am small for my age. I've been working on getting bigger, and in 3 months I've gone from 5'4" 106lbs to 5'6" 120 lbs. I was at a tryout when I weighed around 110 lbs and my 60 yard dash time was a 7.2. That is with official timers and everything. Now, timing it on my own, the best I can get is an 8.3. The weight I have gained has been muscle and not fat because it is from a lot of chicken and muscle shakes and almond butter sandwiches. I also have a...

If your "official" 7.2 time was timed with a stopwatch, it could be off by quite a bit. However, the large discrepancy you described is probably primarily due to flaws in the the way you're timing it now yourself. Keep up the hard work! Very impressive.

BBPlayer29: Welcome to the site. Though you may be a pitcher, from your size I am guessing MI or CF. If you are hoping to play beyond HS, the 60 yard dash will be very important measurable for you. Absent laser timing, you'll see much variation in your times, though the more you run it, you will come up with times "typical for you." Also the more places you run it (unbiased third party), the better chance of reaching your best time, whatever this is. After running one at a showcase or camp,...

Make friends with the HS track coach (men's or women's). Ask if you can run for him/her and get a time, and more importantly, some pointers. Tweaking some key elements (body position during the start, arm movement, finish) can reduce your time very quickly. It won't be an official "baseball time" but it sure beats doing it yourself and the coach will know when to start and stop the clock. There may be a running professional around your area that can do this for a fee. My son had several...

Thank you for the advice! I will definitely take a video and make sure my technique looks alright and I will keep in mind the differences of the way it's being timed.

Welcome to the forum! Here's a good Perfect Game article titled "Do You Want To Run Faster?". http://www.perfectgame.org/Art...ew.aspx?article=1300 Also, if you're good with video, take a 10 second clip of your phone's stopwatch. Then insert that clip into your 60 video, lining up your 60 start with the stopwatch start. The hundreds may be blurry on the stopwatch video since standard video capture is 30 frames per second (0.033 seconds between frames), but it should be good enough for a 60...

That's certainly one way to get an accurate reading!!!

Want to second the advice to get a running coach to help you with form. Good form alone will cut a significant amount of time off your 60 time.

May sound obvious but some baseball cleats are heavy and can slow you down - My son 2016 OF achieves sub 6.7 (best 6.52) when he wears his very light weight soccer cleats - so when it really counts (showcase or PG) he slips them on to run. Maybe just coincidence or false confidence but this has shaved 0.5 off the 60. Of course when running the dirt base paths he uses the metal BB cleats but in the grass a shoe designed to run in grass and super light weight helps. Also he videod himself and...

Usually 60 is run at the beginning of a showcase. Son had some of his best times running without a protective cup, ala Carl Crawford (remember this http://www.tampabay.com/sports...otective-cup/1110370 ) . Son would find some nondiscreet way to put it back in for skills set and remainder of showcase. As others posted big factors as to time variances are surface, shoes, and whether you are running alone or with "competition." Like a good hitter who wants to hit the best pitcher's fastball, a...

My son runs his 60 time barefoot whenever they allow it. When his travel coach recommended this we thought he was BSing us. Side note, his travel coach is OLD SCHOOL, coached decades at a major D1 University and is a Marine. So, we have done multiple tests and all the kids test fastest barefoot. One teammate consistently runs Low 6.4s. Fall Classic we had some new players with us. All the boys took off their shoes and the new players and parents thought it was outrageous to remove your...

Talking to the track coach is a good idea. Coaches typically like to help athletes get to the next level regardless of the sport. There are also training facilities that teach not only speed but how to run a sixty.

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Dr. McKenzie, if you are still available, i'd like to discuss my son's Avulsion fracture of left ASIS. He's a 14y.o. and any possible rehab suggestions you might have. Thx, Chesley Adams

180' is a 100% improvement over 90'...

Chesley, if you hover over Dr. McKenzie's username above, it shows that he has not logged on here since 2017 so this is probably not a good way to contact him. I looked to see if the website he posted a link to is active, but it is down. A quick Google shows that he has a new website up here, but it seems to be 100% dedicated to selling his book and doesn't have a way to contact him. https://unleashpitchingvelocity.com/ He does have a Twitter account, so a Direct Message there might work.