How to hit A Baseball Fast
How To: 3 Tips To Throw Faster | Baseball Throwing Tips
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hey guys what's going on coach Justin
here from ultimate baseball training and
in today's video I'm gonna share with
you three tips to help you throw the
baseball faster and the beauty about
what you're about to learn in today's
video is it doesn't matter what position
you play these tips still apply so
whether you're a pitcher a catcher an
infielder and outfielder does not matter
these three tips right here that I'm
about to share with you are gonna take
your velocity to that next level and the
great thing about it is who doesn't want
to throw harder right it impresses more
Scouts and impresses more coaches and
let's say you're the shortstop tough
play right the fast runners darting up
the line doesn't it feel great to really
just show off your arm strength and hose
that guy at first base so without
further ado let's just jump into these
three tips
alright tip number one use your arm and
I know this sounds so simple right but
it gets far overlooked by many many
players out there and it seems so many
players are looking for that magic pill
or that magic potion they're looking for
that one workout that's going to take
them from 75 to 95 miles an hour and do
you think it's any coincidence that the
guys on this planet who are the best
baseball players who throw the hardest
are also some of the hardest workers
right I think that there's no
coincidence to that you have to work
hard and you have to couple you're
learning with hard work so what do I
mean by that you can spend you know
hours and hours and hours on my YouTube
channel watching videos which I
recommend you do because I put a lot of
time and effort into these and I think
that you're gonna get a lot out of them
you can also invest in some premium
training programs like my bat speed
accelerator training system or the level
ii hitting system or whatever but if
that's all you do if you don't couple
that with hard work then you're not
going to get any better that's that
magic pill or potion I was talking about
you have to couple all that learning
that you're doing and then you have to
actually go to the field and you have to
apply it so similar to this video right
you can just watch this video and not do
any work and your arm strengths not
going to get any better but if you apply
what I'm telling you to do in this video
then there's no reason why your arm
strength won't improve so that's the
very first tip use your arm never
underestimate the value of going to the
field and actually throwing I recommend
starting off long toss about three times
a week and right now you might be
throwing twice a week and wondering you
know I'm thrown a couple times a week I
don't know why my arms you know not
getting stronger well maybe you should
up that from twice a week to playing
long toss three times a week and
throwing five or six times a week listen
to your arm if your arms hang in you
know don't push it but the bottom line
is you have to throw if you want to be
able to throw faster if number two is
train your decelerators and what I mean
by train your decelerators
is work on strengthening your rotator
cuff by doing rotator cuff exercises now
your rotator cuff is comprised of four
different muscles and that is actually
what makes the entire throwing motion
possible is your rotator cuff right and
so many people are trying to look for a
way to accelerate their arm get the
armed to go faster forward but they
neglect working on the brakes right your
rotator cuff back here all these muscles
that make the throwing motion possible
right
they help slow your arm down so after
you throw after you release the ball
that is what actually slows your arm so
you don't you know rip it out a socket
when you're throwing right and so in
order to train to accelerate faster we
need to train to decelerate better right
so in order to do that do rotator cuff
exercises and you should be doing these
pretty much on a daily basis but at
least three or four times a week and
I've done videos on rotator cuff
exercises in the past so you can go
watch those I recommend you do but
there's lots of things you can do right
you can do rotator cuff exercises with
no weight so you can do this at home in
front of a mirror whatever you can do
things like the YW tiel's right and the
empty can exercises you can do those
with weights with little light dumbbells
or if you don't have those you can find
some soup cans and use those be
resourceful and then I recommend doing a
lot of work with Jay bans or surgical
tubing so lots of internal and external
rotation but we really have to focus on
our breaks right because we're always
we're constantly throwing throwing
throwing that's the protagonist in the
throwing motion we have to work on that
antagonist as well and train your breaks
and then you'll be able to accelerate
harder I promise you so start doing
rotator cuff exercises add that to your
routine tip number three all right this
is a biggie lift weights lift weights
and a lot of players especially at the
younger levels and parents out there
live well coach Justin you know I don't
want my child lifting weights because
what about you know is it gonna stunt
their growth and the short answer no
it's absolutely not going to stunt your
growth as long as you're lifting with
proper form and you're not trying to
absolutely lift more than you can handle
but as long as you have proper mechanics
when you're lifting when you're doing
the exercises you have some supervision
if you're younger and you're not trying
to be a bodybuilder and lift way too
much weight then you're going to be fine
and the only way to stunt your growth
is to severely damage your growth plates
with weighted impact so what would cause
that
it would not be doing some dumbbell
bench presses or some squats that's not
weighted impact it's gonna have any sort
of effect on your growth plates what
will is let's say you have a 45 pound
plate so I'm holding a plate and I'm
going to put it back or rack it you know
on the bar and I drop it I dropped the
45 pound plate and it lands on you know
my shin or my ankle something like that
and it shatters the bone that's weighted
impact that's a severe injury and yes if
you do that if you're not careful then
that can cause your growth plates and
your growth to get stunted right but if
you're lifting weights with just
progressive overload and you're careful
with what you're doing and you focus on
having quality form every single time
you perform an exercise then you're
gonna be just fine so I recommend every
player at every age get in the weight
room there's next to nothing out there
that's gonna have more of an impact on
your throwing velocity than getting in
the weight room so for baseball players
I really like them to focus on compound
exercises and explosive movements so
what do I mean by compound exercises a
compound movement is something that
requires multiple muscle groups so a
great example would be squats or
deadlifts right because in the squat
we're not only incorporating let's say
our calves right we have our calves
working but our glutes our hamstrings
our core we have a whole bunch of
muscles that are getting worked in that
one movement as opposed to something
like a bicep curl we're pretty much the
only thing that's getting worked is your
bicep right so I like to focus on
compound movements because you really
get more bang for your buck that's what
it's all about right so if you only have
a little bit of time to spend in the
weight room spending on compound
movements and then another thing is
explosive movements right because
everything we do on the baseball field
whether it's running whether it's
throwing whether it's hitting you know
we don't throw methodically like this
throwing is an explosive movement
hitting is explosive so we need to be
explosive in the weight room and train
those fast twitch muscle fibers so that
in a game it's just second nature
so I recommend doing things like skaters
like box jumps lots of plyometrics
incorporate those maybe at the end of
your workout because that's going to
help you become more explosive and throw
harder on the field
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