returning to throwing

Andrew, I wouldn't really worry about velocity right now if I was you especially if you haven't been throwing for almost 5 months( regardless if you have been throwing a football). It's November and I would suggest that you look at a 8 week off-season throwing program which will take you to mid january and then switch into a pre-season program from Mid- january to the start of your high school season assuming you are high school age and you are throwing now without pain. Use this time of year to focus on mechanics, physical conditioning, and maybe your change if you going to do any throwing. Max effort throwing for gun readings this time of year is probably not in your best interest and unrealistic to think that velocity would be close to where it was after 5 month layoff. Once season rolls around and you have been back throwing regurarly with a throwing program, I wouldn't be surprised if your velocity bumped up from last July.

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assuming you are high school age

to clarify, I am a sophmore who turned 15 the middle of this past july.

If you have been throwing the football a lot, you may want to give you arm some downtime (e.g., not throwing a football or baseball).

Secondly, after not having thrown a baseball in a while, you want to ease back into throwing. Work back up gradually.

. It's November and I would suggest that you look at a 8 week off-season throwing program which will take you to mid january and then switch into a pre-season program from Mid- january to the start of your high school season assuming you are high school age and you are throwing now without pain.



DO you have a program you're willing to share?? I don't get my kids until baseball starts and need something they can rely on.

I do not have a program... I would be really interested in one. please feel free to PM me with any specific throwing programs. Just a note, I am a varsity wrestler, so I do not have quite as much time every day to throw, but I will always find as much time as possible.

turnin2...You have a PM

I used to be in a similar situation...QB in the fall, pitcher the rest of the year.

As a QB I always worked on having a quick release, which loosely translated meant a short throwing motion. When I started back throwing a baseball, usually right after the first of the year, I always concentrated on loosening my arm and making it "long" for pitching for most of the first month back. My football season through HS always ended by Thanksgiving and I literally did next to nothing athletically between then and January 1.

Don't know if this helps, but it always fixed my velocity problems.