Hey what's up everyone! Morey Croson here and today we're going to be going
over one of the most important upper body muscles when it comes to throwing
harder and sprinting faster and I'm going to start the video right now
right so i love doing videos like this just because it really allows me the opportunity
to do a little bit more research into the body and how it actually has a big impact on your overall
performance and i know this has been a muscle for me personally that has been a big impact on
my overall performance but i just needed to make a video about it to be able to help you guys out to
you know run faster and throw the ball harder and what we're going to be talking about today is the
tricep muscle right and it's a unique muscle because it has three different heads to it
right so it it not very many muscles are like that um you know most of them really only have
one attachment one assertion right just like one long string where the tricep has three of them
which makes it again a unique thing the calf is kind of considered a tricep and you know the the
calf soleus but it's really not the same as the upper body and you know the big thing that ends up
happening and what's unique about the tricep when it comes to really throwing the football is it
does assist in adduction of the arm which means as you're coming inwards it does actually play a part
of that because it has the the lateral head which is actually the more explosive part of the tricep
does have an influence on internal rotation of the shoulder so as you're going in and fully
internally rotating it makes sense because if you're going to flex it right you're going to
internally rotate the shoulder in order to kind of flex it show it off right and so
why it's so important is because you have to be able to externally rotate the shoulder first
right get good solid external rotation which you talk so much about for quarterbacks good external
rotation of the shoulder and of the arm allows you to get better activation of the tricep as
you go through the throat very interesting right because as you're finishing through we know that
you have to be able to maximize internal rotation we also are now talking about the importance of
the tricep and being able to maximize not only external rotation but also internal rotation
right and i see a lot of guys that you know are struggling from an arm perspective and even me
when i was playing i had a period of time where my tricep would really bother me right because
for me when i realized that i think my tricep was just growing right it was responding to the amount
of throwing that i was doing so you want to be able to be smart in your recovery right if you're
not throwing very many throws and then you all of a sudden really start ramping it up you might
end up being sore here and it's going to take some time to be actually to actually allow that
to recover just like any muscle right if you're sore in your legs after doing a bunch of squats
or for running or something like that you're gonna need a couple days for it to recover you can't
just go day after day after day throwing a whole bunch and not expect that that back of the arm to
end up being sore but you have to be able to also do the necessary exercises and workout routine
to be able to build yourself up and prepare your body for an upcoming season to really make sure
that you are strong within that tricep muscle you can see you know my my tricep right here
and i put a lot of effort into building my upper body be able to throw further but i
also think it has a big impact on your sprinting i'm going to quickly interrupt this video just
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we'll hop right back into it you can see here as i'm pulling back right this is going to also
require extension or tricep activation because it's extension of the shoulder right so the other
part of the tricep that becomes very active is extension elbow extension and just overall
shoulder extension is going to require a strong tricep muscle right and when watching myself do
this there you know you can see there ends up being kind of a drop in my shoulder here and
then as i'm pulling back i really don't love my initiation of extension here right so you can see
how my shoulder kind of rolls forward there which is going to make it so i'm going to have much more
kind of natural activation through my traps and not as much activation through my triceps right
so i i wanted to use this one to be able to show you guys and also hopefully cue you guys
on the concept of being able to really keep these shoulder plates back and down right you don't want
to end up see how my my shoulder blades are here they're in a good neutral position right here you
can see the good active infraspinatus there but then as i'm coming through i lose that activation
because i allow my shoulder to run to roll forward and now my scapula starts to poke out to the side
here right so i'm not keeping it back and down i'm allowing there to be some separation between
my scapula and my rib cage which is going to immediately impact how much activation i can get
within that tricep muscle which attaches onto that scapula right so i'm not going to get the same
degree of force activation out of there it's still working right it's still going to be a part of
being able to create extension there but i'm not getting as much out of it as i possibly can so and
you can see as i go as i go through you know get activation through the lats and through the core
right so all these muscles are active and in this position they're really all stretched and then you
really want to be able to use that to be able to drive back down and really maximize the amount of
force that you're getting out of that upper body in order to make it so it has a direct correlation
to sprinting faster right so you see a lot of guys that are very strong upper body that are able to
run really fast and it's because of the strength that you can create by having the right amount
of momentum and the the right amount of power within the upper body so how the body is kind
of set up is that the inside part of that tricep has much more like type one you know more of those
type of muscles that are going to be like posture type muscles things that are going to be working
for a long period of time endurance type muscles where the lateral head the outside the middle is
more of both but the outside has more type two so it's ready for explosive type movements and and
patterns and that's going to be what goes into that internal rotation right so as i'm pulling
back my shoulder is internally rotating as i'm going into elbow extension and arm extension
right so it's going to be a part of that and it's also going to be a part of that internal rotation
when i'm throwing so that lateral head is really a power producing muscle on the back of the arm that
could really help you in being able to perform at a higher level when utilized correctly right
so you want to be able to build your upper body whether you're trying to throw the ball further
or increase your speed we got to be able to build up that tricep muscle i think it's a very very
underutilized muscle and not focused on enough for what the potential benefits that you could have if
you build it up to be able to really maximize your performance and really maximize the power behind
it right it's not so much about strength but it's about power and being able to be very efficient in
that muscle so as always guys thanks for watching i hope this helped you out if it did go ahead and
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