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Great news Chef!

My little fella started his throwing program on Dec. 12.  He's up to 150 feet now.  Says the elbow feels better than it ever has.  No setbacks so far - only discomfort he's experienced has been some mild soreness the day after some throwing sessions.

Biggest challenges right now are 1. Not overdoing it, since his arm feels so good, and 2. Dealing with baseball season starting without him (his team has their first scrimmage today, season starts Friday).

MrBumstead posted:

Great news Chef!

My little fella started his throwing program on Dec. 12.  He's up to 150 feet now.  Says the elbow feels better than it ever has.  No setbacks so far - only discomfort he's experienced has been some mild soreness the day after some throwing sessions.

Biggest challenges right now are 1. Not overdoing it, since his arm feels so good, and 2. Dealing with baseball season starting without him (his team has their first scrimmage today, season starts Friday).

So is that 150 on flat ground? When did he start throwing and when is his release to 100% expected?

Interested because a friend of mine son going thru this and my son started throwing at 4 months from surgery - 16 weeks on flat ground (he got to 200 feet for 1 week- then done with this part), then 13 weeks on mound. slowly building up. At about 10 weeks was allowed to throw 100% and at 11 weeks started off-speed stuff. - so a 7 1/2 month throwing program

My friend's son will be 6 months before he throws (in April, 2017). He isn't sure how long his throwing program will be since he is resting 6 months vs. my son 4 months. I know my son's program was designed to have him be available for start of college season mid February this year.

Are other programs designed around when it would be timed to be back on field? So longer rest early, less throwing time?  Just trying to be educated.

For my son it has works well to date.  Fingers crossed it continues.

chefmike7777 posted:
MrBumstead posted:

Great news Chef!

My little fella started his throwing program on Dec. 12.  He's up to 150 feet now.  Says the elbow feels better than it ever has.  No setbacks so far - only discomfort he's experienced has been some mild soreness the day after some throwing sessions.

Biggest challenges right now are 1. Not overdoing it, since his arm feels so good, and 2. Dealing with baseball season starting without him (his team has their first scrimmage today, season starts Friday).

So is that 150 on flat ground? When did he start throwing and when is his release to 100% expected?

Interested because a friend of mine son going thru this and my son started throwing at 4 months from surgery - 16 weeks on flat ground (he got to 200 feet for 1 week- then done with this part), then 13 weeks on mound. slowly building up. At about 10 weeks was allowed to throw 100% and at 11 weeks started off-speed stuff. - so a 7 1/2 month throwing program

My friend's son will be 6 months before he throws (in April, 2017). He isn't sure how long his throwing program will be since he is resting 6 months vs. my son 4 months. I know my son's program was designed to have him be available for start of college season mid February this year.

Are other programs designed around when it would be timed to be back on field? So longer rest early, less throwing time?  Just trying to be educated.

For my son it has works well to date.  Fingers crossed it continues.

(Going from memory, since my son has the actual protocol with him at college.)

So far everything has just been progressive buildup in long toss.  He started with 2 sets of 25 at 45 feet, and gradually build up sets and reps through 60, 90 & 120 feet.  He's now up to 150 feet.  Next week he should bump up to 180.  But it's all long-toss based so far - in the early weeks of the program, he was doing a shuffle-step even from throwing 60 & 90 feet.

After he gets through 180 feet, he gets to start adding in some flat ground pitching.  Then in the last month of the program he can start throwing from a mound.

Each throwing session also includes the DriveLine warm-up/activation and recovery exercises.  He's got bands, rollers, lacrosse balls, plyocare balls, a mini-trampoline, adjustable wrist weights, shoulder tube, etc.  I think he uses just about all of them.  (To be clear, he is NOT doing any weighted ball or plyocare ball throwing exercises except reverse throws, which his trainer had him doing even before he began throwing a baseball again.  No roll-ins, pivot pickoffs, pulldowns, etc.  He's just doing the warmup and recovery exercises.)

Concurrently, he's back to almost unrestricted weight training.  The only restriction is that they want him to keep the upper body work light-medium intensity (moderate weight and reps) so that none of the arm muscles are tight during throwing - they want the muscles to stay loose during this phase.  He's also still working some with the trainer doing rehab, just not daily like he was in the fall.

Let me be the first to congratulate ChefMike on Wright St.'s very, very  impressive opening weekend at Clemson.  More importantly, of course, CONGRATULATIONS on a very impressive, albeit brief (that is what happens when you throw strikes!!) 4 up, 4 down outing.  Oh, and he struck out arguably the best college hitter in America (swinging) in the middle of it all.  All of this less than 1 year post TJ.  You must be feeling great, tonight.  If you are not, you should be.   Keep us posted on how he is feeling physically and emotionally about all of this.  Maybe he is happy with his current role, maybe not.  But, it is still so early in his come back, and now he has the confidence he needs.  I hope BucsFanSon can look as good as JR come Fall.  (Btw, Sexton was a bulldog and  very impressive today).

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BucsFan posted:

Let me be the first to congratulate ChefMike on Wright St.'s very, very  impressive opening weekend at Clemson.  More importantly, of course, CONGRATULATIONS on a very impressive, albeit brief (that is what happens when you throw strikes!!) 4 up, 4 down outing.  Oh, and he struck out arguably the best college hitter in America (swinging) in the middle of it all.  All of this less than 1 year post TJ.  You must be feeling great, tonight.  If you are not, you should be.   Keep us posted on how he is feeling physically and emotionally about all of this.  Maybe he is happy with his current role, maybe not.  But, it is still so early in his come back, and now he has the confidence he needs.  I hope BucsFanSon can look as good as JR come Fall.  (Btw, Sexton was a bulldog and  very impressive today).

Thank you for the info. I am a Tiger fan but also a Jeremy Randolph fan.  Way to go!

Just got home from 7 1/2 hour drive. Still flying high. I am so happy for Jeremy. He was impressive in his outing. Always the plan this weekend and next to be out of the pen. Wright State threw 12 pitchers this weekend. And still have thier #1 starter  out for a few more weeks. Impressive group of pitchers we have. 

I wasn't projecting 11 pitches and done but that is what you want. Low pitch count. His slider really bit on the last pitch to Seth Beer who is crazy talented. We generally were very careful with him this weekend. Somethings like 5-6 BB and he still had 2 HR and a double. 

Radar gun on scoreboard had him 92-94 on his fastballs. Sliders 87-90. Don't know how accurate it is but looked awesome up there. He did have highest recorded velo by WSU. I believe shoveit4ks son Ryley had the 2nd highest on Clemson at 96. And his stuff was crazy good Saturday

BucsFan posted:

Let me be the first to congratulate ChefMike on Wright St.'s very, very  impressive opening weekend at Clemson.  More importantly, of course, CONGRATULATIONS on a very impressive, albeit brief (that is what happens when you throw strikes!!) 4 up, 4 down outing.  Oh, and he struck out arguably the best college hitter in America (swinging) in the middle of it all.  All of this less than 1 year post TJ.  You must be feeling great, tonight.  If you are not, you should be.   Keep us posted on how he is feeling physically and emotionally about all of this.  Maybe he is happy with his current role, maybe not.  But, it is still so early in his come back, and now he has the confidence he needs.  I hope BucsFanSon can look as good as JR come Fall.  (Btw, Sexton was a bulldog and  very impressive today).

For got to answer question. He feels "awesome" and arm feels "great". Though very short quotes by him and typical. Music to my ears. 

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