Alright! In today's video we're gonna cover pitching velocity so if there's
your first time here make sure you hit subscribe stick around I'm going to
teach you a ton about the advanced side of baseball where velocity comes from
okay so the first one is your genetics you can't control your genes you can't
control your parents but it's part of the equation so your genetics your
parents you know what did they give you are you flexible are you durable because
part of throwing hard over time is staying healthy over time your hips are
they good different hip shapes different hip socket shapes they can influence how
well you rotate over your front leg over your back leg how well you can transfer
force your shoulder so your shape of your shoulder same thing we have type 1
type 2 and type 3 acromion 's how does that influence how your shoulder stays
healthy over time are you fast twitch are you slow twitch you know this is a
big determinant of how fast you throw a baseball how fast you sprint how high
you can jump all this stuff arm length
right longer arms longer lovers height weight all this stuff make up your jeans
so your jeans are crucial about where velocity comes from okay number two is
your mechanics mechanics of you transfer force and they help you efficiently
produce and transfer that power from the ground to your armor so your mechanics
don't leak
power pretty simple the better mechanics they transfer more power right that's
what your mechanics do they take energy you create the ground they transfer it
up through your legs through your hips through your core through your arm
finally to the baseball so you want to transfer as much power as possible you
want to produce as much and transfer as much and you want to leak as little as
possible so that's what mechanics do free if we really summed it up very very
simply the best pitchers have good genes and then the power that they produce
from good genetics they transfer it well and they don't leak a lot of it okay a
third one food you gotta eat healthy things
why does food matter it's well it's like the bricks of your house so if you're
building a house and you make a crappy foundation and you build it with cheap
blocks that are made of I don't know old bones and dust then what kind of house
you can have build you need good materials you need good food so
McDonald's cheeseburgers they're not gonna fuel long-term durability they're
not gonna help your body recover djor they're not gonna do any of that stuff
for you food is the building block for you to recover after outings so recovery
to give you the nutrients all right that's like the mortar and then to get
big and strong you can work your butt off in the gym but if you don't have the
again the building blocks to build muscle to stay healthy to thicken your
tendons and ligaments over time all that stuff you're not going to get out of it
what you want you have to support your strength training with good food good
nutrition eat healthy things okay number four strength and size building the
weight room so you need strength and you need size look there's some Joe Kelly's
there's some Tim Lincecum's there's some some skinny guys in the make in the
major leagues right but what you don't know is both those guys have amazing
jeans they're both SuperDuper athletic they're great examples of guys who just
have as much fast-twitch and as much of this as they possibly could in addition
to working hard and being great pitchers and all that stuff but almost everyone
else is very big very strong they are well-built athletes so strength training
you need to get big you need to get strong and you need to become durable
right we need to become durable because it doesn't matter how big and strong and
how amazing you are if you're constantly injured and even when you're a gym rat
even when you do all these things right I was a good example as a player you can
still be hurt but you give yourself a fighting chance by taking this stuff
seriously and bulletproofing yourself as much as you can strength and size which
is built in the weight room which is built through strain conditioning that
is crucial number five conditioning and this means your arm can means your body
so it's more than just running poles a lot of different things and conditioning
is going to cover throwing you have to throw if you want to be in shape to
throw you can't just be in the gym all the time and not throw so a good good
throwing regimen is crucial because that's what conditions your arm to throw
you have to throw if you want to throw harder besides that sprinting great
explosive sure that might go here but you have to be in condition to do the
job that you want to do arm care here again this goes back to durability goes
back to strength but it really goes more I think in condition you condition your
arm to do the job that you're asking of
it so conditioning is again it's handling
the demands of the job so when you're pitching constantly when you're starter
going every fifth day when your reliever going back-to-back days all this stuff
getting your your conditioning working you're sprinting you're running whatever
it is you're throwing in your arm care all those things get your arm well
prepared to handle the demands of the job so conditioning is really really
crucial you can't have any of these without the others you can't have jeans
without good training you can't have good mechanics or the arm conditioning
you need all these things to get where you ultimately want to go but there's
one more thing we're into cover and the last one up here alright last thing your
mind you can't be scared to throw the crap out of the ball but you absolutely
have to face your fears you know when I recovered from two different Tommy John
surgeries both times and I came back there was a point where my body my mind
everything said hold back you're gonna hurt yourself again just go ninety five
percent just go ninety percent and I had to say you shut up now voice I'm gonna
throw this ball as hard as I can possibly throw it because that's what
the job requires of me so you have to be mentally tough you will have injuries
you will have aches and pains if you run from them every single time you're not
gonna be able to do with the job now we have to still approach pain and injury
and soreness in a pragmatic way we can't just push through everything that's not
what I'm advocating but there are times when you have to hit the gas and you
have to be mentally tough to do that the other thing you have to make sure you
finish each pitch this is harder than it seems it's not just about throwing the
crap out of it it's also about throwing the crap out of it and then you could
also write down here throw the crap out of it but to get everything out of your
body you have to tap into all of it you have to throw it at 99% all the time
100% in my mind is over throwing 99% is where we get the best of all possible
worlds it's where we're throwing the ball as hard as we can possibly throw it
while remaining in command of the baseball all right so we have to throw
the crap out of it we have to be mentally tough to do that there are
times when we have to face our fears there are times when we have to still
pitch through discomfort and there are times when we have to absolutely get
every last little bit to get our slider to break the way we want it to get a
fastball by a guy to get that last little bit of deception on a changeup
whatever it is that's pitching stuff it's not a velocity exclusively but your
mind is extremely important in getting every little bit so I have a lot of kids
that I work with a lot of players that I played with who they don't throw 99%
they ease off and they ultimately don't make it as far as they want to because
of that no one has except for like Justin Verlander can throw a hundred
miles per hour 100 you know Plus where they can then just throw 95% they still
know threw 95 miles per hour very few people can do that some people today can
but on the whole we need to get everything out of our body that we
possibly can and that's where the mind comes into this equation okay so I hope
you enjoyed this video you know basically what I'm trying to do is just
help you understand what it takes to make it so there's a lot of different
factors there's a lot of stuff you need to cover and there's a lot of training
and your future if you want to be a really hard thrower if you want to be a
really good pitcher so make sure you're putting in the work make sure you're
auditing yourself and covering all your bases because there's a lot that you
have to as you saw today there's a lot that you have to improve on over time so
if you haven't already hit subscribe I'm putting on new videos each week and I
want to help you get better especially if you're a pitcher
really if your hard worker and one day you want to reach pro baseball
you