hey what's up everyone morey croson here and we have a brand new video for you today it's
going to be going over all the muscles that are needed in the upper body when it comes to
throwing the football just want to make sure that you have a clear understanding of what needs to be
strengthened in order to throw the ball further i get a lot of people that reach out to me about
that and why i'm making this video though is because i'm just launching a new quarterback
university that's going to go in depth into how to master your quarterback mechanics i want to be
able to promote that a little bit more so that's really the main reason i think that this would be
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and we'll hop in the video right now all right so first thing that ends up happening when it
comes to loading and again it's all going to be primarily upper body here so the first thing that
happens is we're going to put a stretch on the the pecs right we're going to be able to allow
the pecs to be able to open up and and pec minor pec major we're in more of a flex position in the
elbow which means there's going to be slightly more bicep activation there uh and then we're
also in more of an extended position within the wrist right so if we're in a flexed position with
the wrist the ball would end up actually falling downwards right because because uh the the weight
of the ball but because we're able to actually hold the ball even though it's in a neutral
position it's still technically wrist extension and we're still activating the muscles on the top
of the wrist there as we're getting going and then we're also activating the muscles in the
the medial delt the delt all together but also but really putting more of a focus on the medial delt
as the elbow gets higher up there is a bit of a stretch that's happening within
the lats a bit of a stretch that's happening in the serratus right all these muscles underneath
here and yeah we're gonna go in depth into this because i always get people that reach out to me
that are asking me what muscles that do i need to strengthen to to throw further what workouts would
you do to throw further and there's really so many different parts of it right and there's also
people that reach out to say you know oh i have a slap tear or i had a slapped hair i dislocated
my shoulder or i you know this and that and and i need to be able to get on on a strength training
program and don't really know exactly what they need in order to get stronger and all that goes
into actually throwing the ball well so hopefully this video gets a clear understanding that one
you're gonna need a lot of building within a lot of different muscles in order to throw the ball
further and two that you know we're going to be able to give you uh exactly that by just being
able to go over all the different muscles here as we go through so next thing this ends up happening
is obviously the the elbow gets higher and higher and as we're doing this we're getting more into
i would say a horizontal abduction within the pecs right because now the the pets really are
a big part of horizontal adduction bringing those elbows in super important movement to be able to
throw the ball well and so as we're going and getting the elbow up and starting to rotate here
within the shoulder we're really putting a lot of stretch within the pack and now we're starting to
get some actual activation within the muscles in the rotator cuff like the infraspinatus back here
the supraspinatus more up here we're putting more stretch on the subscap right the muscle underneath
here we're putting still stretch on the lat because everything's going into external rotation
the lat and the subscap do more of the internal rotation while infraspinatus and supraspinatus do
more external rotation within the shoulder we're also retracting so we have more of the rhomboids
going as well to make sure that we're able to maintain a good shoulder position and now once
we're in this good externally rotated position now the wrist is starting to be able to even rotate
additionally which again puts even more stretch on the elbow which is what you want you want to be an
end shoulder is you want to be able to have plenty of room for external rotation within the shoulder
and these muscles are all concentrically activated right so they're all tightened they're all
shortened so you need to be strong in shortening these muscles within the pec you got to be able to
lengthen and you got to be able to shorten within the lats you got to be able to link it and you got
to be able to shorten there's a lot of muscles that that are at play here that need to be um
utilized and now what ends up happening is there's almost more of a isometric activation which means
that the muscles are active but they're not necessarily lengthening or shortening so now
it's more of an isometric activation within your rhomboids within really all the muscles that are
trying to maintain scapular stabilization right so it's important to be able to have overhead uh
shoulder stabilization and scapular stabilization in order to throw the ball really well because
a lot of times what i see is as people are coming around here they lose that integrity within the
scapula and so it starts to come off to the side here they don't have the serratus strength they
don't have the rhomboid strength and so then the the scapula starts to come off to the side
and now the pec automatically gets active way too early and you're just not able to achieve
the the full ranges of internal rotation within the shoulder and really be able to activate all
the muscles that are needed in order to throw the ball really well now even for me i could do a
better job of getting horizontal adduction i could do a better job of getting that elbow all the way
through as i'm coming through but what ends up wanting to what you want to do is just that you
want to drive that elbow through that horizontal adduction is critical right here and having the
range of motion to be able to do that is super important again neutral wrist positioning so you
need to have good strong grip as you're coming through and then you want to be able to extend
all the way in the arm so you have to be able to activate through again those lats through those
triceps and have the range of motion to be able to come all the way through with the rhomboids and
the the muscles within uh yeah i mean the lower and mid middle rhomboids both of them need to be
able to come all the way through and and even have some some stabilization within the traps the traps
have to be strong as well you can't be weak within the traps if you're looking to throw the ball well
now some common mistakes that i see is people just not having the right amount of external location
within the shoulder like i already said so not able to get the ball down you know very far or
or just be able to create very much of a stretch ended up with the ball really far back behind the
head is a common um thing that then where people have a lot of external rotation issues or if
you're not able to again get very much stretch in that arm as well i'm trying to get the ball
out of my hands kind of quickly here so i'm not creating as much of a stretch but i think i can
also work on my external rotation for for sure and then also internal rotation so be able to come all
the way through and get that pinky all the way up while extending through the elbow so i'll also see
that where people as they're coming through they they lack the ability to create internal rotation
while also extending the arm the elbow stays like kind of locked out so now that ends up putting
certain amounts of stress within the um trap and then also puts a certain amount of stretch
within the the inside part of the shoulder so you know you can really self-diagnose yourself a
lot of times with some of this stuff and i'll get people all the time that'll send me different um
you know questions about how i'm feeling pain here feeling pain here what do i need to do
um and i can just send them some things or let them know what's happening um you know that that's
causing that pain but a lot of these these fixes are not just you know do this exercise or do this
stretch it it takes a full um gamut of fixing your problem right if you have an issue if you have you
know something a leak in your system um it's not something where you could just go in and plug in
the leak and act like that's going to make it so everything is good i know right now people try to
do that it's always about trying to to get the the next quick fix but the reason that you have a leak
is because of the the issues that are happening with your body could be some some strength that's
happening within the shoulder it could be a lack of range of motion it could be the inability to
utilize your lower body correctly it could be the the improper sequencing through your throat but
there ends up being a lot more than just the leak so if you're having pain if you're having problems
if you've had an injury in the past you got to fix your mechanics you got to make sure that
you're getting all the stabilization that you need within the shoulder and don't try to get
something quickly you're not going to be able to fix this problem unless you really focus on it and
and diagnose it and make sure that you commit 100 to fixing it and you know you should be able to
do that especially within our program that's why i want to be able to give you guys this um you know
this video to be able to really connect with you that hey look i understand where you're at let's
be able to fix it and hopefully understanding the muscles will really help you out and then also
check out that quarterback university it goes in depth into what your quarterback mechanic should
be looking like in order to throw the ball really really effectively as a quarterback
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