Best strength program for pitchers?

Ron Wolforth is the best IMO. 

Rooski, where are you located?

Based on reading the info, why would you need anything else?

Not only will this revolutionary pitching workout program make you faster and stronger, but it will also show you how to unlock your true potential while reducing the risk of injury.

Seriously though, what are you trying to do?  Get faster?  Gain weight?

To gain weight, just eat much more protein and lift some weights in the local gym.

To get faster, add mass and fine tune his technique via lessons and confirm with a radar gun.

In my opinion running is best activity for this purpose. Its a good exercise and also a best program for increasing strength for pitchers.

No Limit Fitness boot camp

Sprinting, yes. Long distance running - no. Waste of time for pitchers.

http://www.baseballvelo.com/

Agreed.  Long distance running may be the worst thing a pitcher can do. There are plenty of articles out there that prove that pretty clearly. 

I clicked on "The God Story" and got a message saying "This video does not exist"

 

Does it make me a bad person to have found that amusing?

 

 

Here are couple that are easy to find through a quick Google search. These are some people who are respected in the field of training pitchers. 

 

http://www.webball.com/cms/page7139.cfm

http://baseballnews.com/should...-run-long-distances/

http://www.ericcressey.com/sho...at-the-research-says

 

 

Sprints are great for developing explosive lower body movements, but the real answer is core and functional strength.  So much of what athletes do in the weight room doesn't translate to the field.  

 

Think about what most people use as "core."  They get on the ground and do 100 crunches and they just did "core."  Now think about the action of a crunch, laying on your back, and curling your shoulders to your feet/knees and doing that repeatedly.  Great for the beach, not really that good for baseball, since that movement doesn't really happen very often on the field.  

 

Conditioning will be beneficial when you develop a stable base of strength (certainly crunches can be a part of stabilization), then train the body to rotate explosively in a standing position generating force from toes to fingertips.  

 

Hope that helps. 

 

Here's a short post I wrote on the subject www.cornerstonecoachingacademy.com/core-work

 

Ideally, for your son to get optimal results he should use a strength and conditioning program that is tailored around his needs and goals. Cookie-cutter programs can work to an extent but what works for other athletes, even other pitchers, might not be what's best for your son. Some general tips for pitchers' strength and conditioning programs:

 

-Skip the fluff. Focus on compound movement such as squat and deadlift variations for building the foundation of strength.

-Build power with medicine ball throws/tosses. You're goal when doing med ball throws should be to break the med ball every single time.

-Build a bulletproof core using variations of anti-extension, anti-rotation, and anti-lateral flexion exercises. Wheel rollouts, landmine twists, and single arm farmers walks are my favorite exercises for each of these.

-Train movements that get the scapula to upwardly rotate. In other words, get your arm overhead without pressing overhead. Some of my favorite exercises for this: dumbbell pullover, rollout variations, yoga pushups, TRX Y's.

-Somebody already mentioned it but it's important so I'll say it again. Don't do long distance running. It won't translate to performance on the mound at all. I actually made a video on this topic which you can view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqhEBL0qngo

 

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Austin:

 

Good stuff, thanks for posting!  I've read some recent articles stressing the importance of hip mobility for generating pitching velocity.  This might be one of my son's bigger deficiencies.  Can you recommend some exercises/drills/stretches I can share with him? 

Hurdle drills are always great for improving hip mobility. If you search on YouTube you can find a ton of these. A simple half-kneeling hip flexor stretch is good. I have almost all of my clients perform this stretch, especially the ones sitting at a desk all day at work/school. I would focus on working the backside too. The piriformis is a muscle that often gets tight on people. I use pigeon pose (a yoga pose) a lot for my athletes with tight backsides. Holding pigeon pose for 2 min on each side post-workout should help loosen those tissues up. I also recommend doing soft tissue work (foam rolling) to help decrease the density of those tissues right before doing mobility work/stretching. If those tissues truly are tight then this will help tremendously. 

Thanks!  We already have flexor stretch, pigeon pose, and foam rolling as a part of his pre-workout routine.  Looks like we're on the right track.

I would like to add the importance of your son having knowledgable guidance (it could be you or a qualified trainer or good resources such as some of the resources mentioned in posts above).  The importance of doing training

Continuing from above....  Safety of training must be emphasized.  I wanted to stress the importance of doing exercises properly and with appropriate guidance.

According to my research running is best activity for gaining more strength. This activity has so many benefits for a pitchers. This program is very useful.

Please provide thst research.

Tim has found that it is best to not run on sharp pointy stuff, but of course Tim does not need to run. 

 

 

 

 

 

You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going because you might not get there.

Tim,
How is your son?

TPM knows much what is hidden. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can observe a lot by watching.

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