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Late Life: How Chien-Ming Wang Made It Back To The Big Leagues (Part 2 Of 2)
It wasn’t long before Chien became the talk of the town in Surprise, AZ with eye-popping velocities reaching 96.7 mph With characteristic humility and class, Chien acknowledged his work at The ARMory in the off-season as the key to his new success. The day he mentioned it to reporters, the entire country of Taiwan visited and crashed our website. We doubled the bandwidth and after his next outing, it crashed again.
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The External vs. Internal Focus Debate In Baseball Skill Acquisition
This generation baseball players big advantage is the explosion in technology we’ve seen lately, which allows us to know what a player should work on. How to get gains in the quickest manner possible is where our motor skill acquisition science approach comes into play.
Shut It Down Or Keep Throwing? Maybe There’s an Alternative
I get asked frequently to choose a side… And I never do…Because in my opinion, the answer is not that simple. It’s not so black and white. Keep throwing, or shut it down…What should a player do? The answers (not-unexpected, I’m sure) is… it depends on....
How We Individualize Workload To Decrease Injury Risk And Maximize Performance Gains
Common sense: To become an elite throwing athlete, you need to throw … a lot. BUT don't throw too much or you will get hurt. It stems from flawed assumption — that all throwing injuries are due to OVERUSE. Limit pitch counts. Control innings pitched. Take 3 months off every year. Coaches and organizations complied. Yet injury rates kept climbing. Why?
Impulse And The Little Glutes: The Most Important Contributors To Pitching Velocity
To change a movement, you have to change the mover. To stabilize the back leg (thereby increasing impulse) the athlete must have enough mobility to get into a position that optimizes the length-tension relationships in all of the muscles surrounding the hip.