Throwing at home?

Anyone?

You can throw a lot. But you don't want to pitch every day.

One thing you can do at home is do arm band exercises. And lift if you have weights at home..but a gym would be better. Like Texan said, pitching everyday is a lot. Maybe more like 2 or 3 times a week for actual pitching? I would ask around though.

Scratch that on the 2 or 3 times..think about it. 5 man rotation. Pitchers usually pitch at most 2 but more like once a week.

Chech out insidepitching.com it has quite a bit of information on off season throwing routines used in college programs.

Throwing is not pitching---keep that in mind

Agreed. Throw 5x week in the offseason, but don't do bullpens until January. Lift 3x week, cardio 4-5x week, plyometrics 2-3x week, band 3-4x week, core 4-5x week. Drink plenty of water, eat well, and sleep!

ro, good advice here, but I am surprised no one mentioned long toss. This is something you can do any where even by yourself if you have enough room.

I could throw long toss with my son until he was 14 or 15. At that point I had him take a bucket of balls out and throw the balls to me until the bucket was empty. I then placed the balls in another bucket until the supply was depleted.

Even if you do not have anyone to throw with, set up a target, start close and move back as far as you can in incremental steps until you reach the maximum distance you can hit the target. Take one more step and then keep trying to hit the target. Physics proves that the farther you can throw the faster your velocity is on the mound.

My son, now 17, can hit foul pole to foul pole on the home run fence on a good sized high school field and his velocity last year hit 90 and 91 peak. He is hoping for 92 to 93/94 this spring.

This is not entirely due to long toss, but it is a part of his routine.