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Thanks for the link!  My son's college coach is one that subscribes to the 120 foot rule and as a result, my son's velocity has actually decreased.  He worked very hard the last few years with long toss and had improved significantly from year to year throughout high school.  Obviously, he is quite frustrated this year and this article validates what he told me about what he thought was contributing to his decline.  He'll be getting back to long toss to prepare for the Summer season.

I implemented a 6-Week Long Toss Throwing Program in the summer of 2010 with 12 of our HS athletes and have been implementing this program ever since. Below is the link to the program I used with our athletes. The average velocity increase was 4.8 MPH. Actually had one athlete increase 11 MPH which doesn't happen often . If you have any questions or if the link doesn't work let me know. 

Thanks!

Austin 

 

Long Toss Program

My son started doing long toss early on in high school and he continues to do so in college.  In his Freshman year at college I was curious as to whether he was still doing it and so asked him about it.  I was surprised by his response as he said he was indeed continuing it and was throwing from foul pole to foul pole.  My initial reaction was that he was pulling my leg about the distance, but sure enough, he was throwing foul pole to foul pole in his long toss routine. (oh, and to date he hasn't had any arm problems . . . not that it's JUST because of the long toss routine, but I believe it helps a lot.)

Well, I live in Minnesota and it is challenging to keep your arm active but it can be done.  My son (2016) plays football, basketball, and baseball.  During the fall (football season) he plays in a basketball workout league (pre-basketball tryouts) as well as fall baseball.  Him and I get together after football practice or on weekends to work on long toss until the snow sticks.  He then takes the rest of fall off from throwing, starting up again in December.  During the off season he will work on grips (he pitches), ball transfer, and other things he can work on inside, and periodically we'll go to the Y and do some light throwing - it's a good time to try new techniques.  From December on, he has weekly time at a local dome to get some baseball work in (fielding, throwing, shorter long toss) gradually increasing the intensity until tryouts (March).  By then he's participating in pitch-hit-catch games in a batting tunnel and is up to throwing 45-60 pitches in an outing.  Of course, participating in three sports, he's always lifting, doing SAQ training, and working on skills for his other sports.

For those in bad weather areas you can use sand filled baseball from Oates. I am not sure if they have a program on their site but Wolforth has one. My son used these in the off season and his college gives him a routine where he throws them against a wall. (brick, block or concrete of course   This would be perfect if you have a basement with a solid wall to throw against.

 

http://oatesspecialties.com/

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