{"id":1528,"date":"2014-03-25T08:35:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T12:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2014-03-25T08:35:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T12:35:29","slug":"throw-harder-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/?p=1528","title":{"rendered":"How To Throw Harder In Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to throw harder in baseball, you&#8217;re going to have to work hard. It takes consistent and dedicated effort. There is certainly no quick fix here.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1. First you need to examine your existing level of fitness. Are you fit to pitch?<\/p>\n<p>2. You then need to set up a pitching specific fitness program. This program should include exercises for explosive power work, flexibility, stability, and endurance.<\/p>\n<p>3. You need to evaluate your current pitching mechanics to determine inefficiencies and energy leaks.<\/p>\n<p>4. Begin a dedicated throwing program.<\/p>\n<p>5. Test and quantify your progress, both on thestrength and conditioning side and the throwing mechanics side of being a pitcher. We all need to keep score to see how we are doing.<\/p>\n<p>6. Break your throwing and conditioning regiment into at least four segments. Segments such as: off-season, pre-season, in-season, and post-season.<\/p>\n<p>7. Set specific attainable baseball goals. Not just for pitching velocity, but all disciplines of pitching and physical conditioning.<\/p>\n<p>Throwing harder takes a dedicated effort, planning and discipline. For some it comes easier than others, but don&#8217;t let that deter you. Make it a challenge to reach your genetic ceiling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4 steps to start throwing harder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Throw every day.<br \/>\nProfessional pitchers on both the minor and major league levels throw every single day for at least 10 quality minutes. Chicago Cubs pitchers have a &#8220;10 Minute Throwing Program&#8221;. Pitchers toss the ball ON A LINE TO THEIR PARTNER at 60 feet (3 min), 90 feet (3 min), 120 feet (3 min), and back to 60 feet (1 min) to finish. 10 quality minutes a day and you&#8217;re on your way to developing a great arm!<\/p>\n<p>2. No curveballs until a pitcher is 14 or 15 years old.<br \/>\nIf you want to develop fastball arm strength, you have to throw the fastball! Plus, most young pitchers don&#8217;t have the arm strength needed to throw effective curveballs and consequently develop arm problems that hinder their fastballs!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecompletepitcher.com\/how_to_throw_harder.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to throw harder in baseball, you&#8217;re going to have to work hard. It takes consistent and dedicated effort. There is certainly no quick fix here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,11,77,4,3,6,5],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-alabama-baseball","tag-alabama-travel-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-birmingham-giants","tag-fall-baseball","tag-travel-baseball","tag-youth-baseball"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birminghamgiants.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}