Has anyone had a son who played football that also long tossed during the football season?
I thought about having my son picking up long toss after football season is over but was wondering if it wouldn't be a bad idea to just include it, say, twice a week?
Also I'm wondering if you long toss for 6 months / year instead of 12 months if that hampers your growth in velocity?
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There is a prior thread on long toss that may give you some good ideas.
What age/class is your son? What position? My 2015 Catcher plays football during fall and does a throwing program during the football season. He uses a program that simulates the throwing using different weighted balls. This is keeping his arm in some kind of shape as well as getting it stronger. He is now starting to do a long toss program. Starting out for the next 2-3 weeks he will be throwing a short distance and gradually increasing distance afterward.
This is just one idea though.
Good Luck
There is a prior thread on long toss that may give you some good ideas.
What age/class is your son? What position? My 2015 Catcher plays football during fall and does a throwing program during the football season. He uses a program that simulates the throwing using different weighted balls. This is keeping his arm in some kind of shape as well as getting it stronger. He is now starting to do a long toss program. Starting out for the next 2-3 weeks he will be throwing a short distance and gradually increasing distance afterward.
This is just one idea though.
Good Luck
My son is a freshman, class of 2017.
He has been the primary pitcher on his travel team, and back up catcher. Also 1B when time allows. 
I just found out that my son will be brought up to varsity football as a 3rd string quarterback for the last game and into the playoffs. So long toss has helped with football also.
I think I will get my son out to the football field to long toss on the weekends.
Thanks for the advice.
My 2015 pitcher plays football as well. His pitching coach, a current MLB pitching coach, told him he needs to throw long toss a couple times a week during football and needs to try and throw a baseball, even if for 5 minutes, everyday. He stressed the word throw, not pitch. Since he too is a QB and the throw is a different one, he wants to make sure he is building the baseball throwing muscles and does not bring QB mechanics to the pitching mound.
Long toss the football
our HS baseball coach had an organized long toss program after school during football season. Some of the football players organized their own program after football practice a couple of days/week on non-lifting days. My son participated in that. Kind of funny seeing guys in football pants playing catch.
That must be a sight.
Long toss the football
That is interesting because before the game they had the quarterbacks starting 10 yds apart and then working to 40 yds apart.
Now if long-toss could only keep my son from fumbling the ball.
