hey what's up everyone morey croson here and today we'll be talking about how to throw the
football without hurting your shoulder in order to start the video right now
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all right so this is i think a very important concept because i see a lot of guys that
go and they throw the football and they're hurting their shoulders hurting their elbows feeling pain
feeling soreness feeling overuse and what we want to do today is we want to be able to help
you address that issue i'm really excited about being able to really give you the opportunity to
heal yourself by fixing mechanics i always tell people they call me and
they're like hey you know my son he's got some shoulder problems or some elbow problems or
whatever the case may be and you know we want to be able to get to you to be able to help them out
and and there's a few different things that i'll do in terms of drills exercises uh therapies
that can really help people get through that that process very quickly especially if you're in the
la area but we want to also be able to help you from no matter where you are in the world and so
a couple things come to mind here when it comes to pain right and so the first thing that i'll say
is the you know mechanics are are critical okay so we got to have the right mechanics in order
to make it so we could resist the the pain uh and and the first thing that i'd say that
ends up really causing this is that front arm that front shoulder so you know what we'll see
is people will will open up with this front shoulder immediately right so if we look to see
the the step here right really what i'm trying to do is i'm trying to open up my hips the best i can
and really keeping my front shoulder closed the best i can so what happens is that when
people will land with this front foot they'll really be flying open with this front arm and
in the concept here right that we want to be able to teach you guys through this video
is that you can if you take the video right and you watch it you slow it down and you compare
it to this video right some of the things that we're talking about here you can buy by just
utilizing the correct mechanics make an impact on fixing what's going on within the shoulder okay so
big thing first make sure that that front arm is not opening up too soon okay another big thing and
this will cause more overuse you know that will cause overuse in either the shoulder or the elbow
i would say this one ends up really causing more overuse within the shoulder right and that's going
to be when you're stepping landing with too much of your weight going forward right so we want to
be able to land and have more weight on our back legs when we land with this front leg we want to
overall be able to maintain and keep more weight on that back leg on that back foot right so it's
a rotation action and when i'm landing with that that front foot i want to be able to be pushing
down through the ball of the foot here to be able to keep my weight back so essentially what this is
is indicating is that we're utilizing too much upper body too much arm to throw the football and
not enough lower body right and so if we can get a better weight shift okay so if we land with all
of our weight already forward what happens is that now when we end up having to go through the throw
we don't really have any weight shift we have to utilize all of the arm in order to make it so we
can throw the football further okay so we have to understand how to be able to utilize the back leg
okay uh another thing and also the weight shift the other thing is getting the ball too far back
behind the head so when we're going and loading if the ball ends up going way back here wait way back
behind the head then that ends up really causing a big problem when it comes to when we come through
because now the ball will end up getting really far away from the body as you're coming through
this could be elbow pain this could be shoulder pain you know this could be impingement there's
a lot of things that could end up happening when you have a improper utilization external rotation
in the shoulder okay so that's gonna be number three so far we had a opening up the front
shoulder too soon number one thing right number two thing is improper weight shift okay number
three thing is going to be when loading right and really ends up being into like an improper
load there could be something going on within the wrist right you could be bringing the ball back
too far behind the head right not rotating enough within you know the football and this is where the
breakdowns i think are critical right and we have some great deals within these we have like a 97
uh throw breakdown we have uh you know to me to get yourself out of pain for 97 dollars that
it's a great deal you know we have like the 360 program that's going to give you more consistent
breakdowns we have monthly options within quarterback university i mean i think quarterback
university is the best you know most valuable thing you can get as a quarterback because of all
the video tutorials that it has the exercises the drills the coverages and you also get personalized
programming and breakdown so you know you really can't beat that but you know the third one would
be you know lack of external rotation in the shoulder both when you're throwing it even in in
general right like i i work a ton with when people have especially overuse in the shoulder it's like
all right let's we got to re-establish more external rotation right both external rotation
and internal rotation end up being limited a lot of times because of some of the exercise choices
that the athletes are going through okay another one that ends up being a problem or another thing
that ends up happening is after you go through the load right and i'm going to try to get the right
view here is like an elbow drop so after we go to this position as the athlete's coming through
again like you have to look at yourself here to be able to see you know self-diagnose right
these are i'm not going to go i thought about you know putting up other quarterbacks and and
being able to show you like you know this is the example of this this is the example of this but uh
you know i think that you guys can go in and self-diagnose yourself i'd put this side by side
with your own throw right it is this is what is correct right so you can see as i'm driving my
elbow through there's not an elbow drop right so as i'm going through this this transition phase if
you see this elbow drop down right so you load the football up and then you drop the arm down
as you're supposed to be driving through that's going to end up causing a overuse as well uh it
could be elbow it could be short a lot of these things could end up being both okay and that ends
up being a big problem okay and then i would say the last one and the fifth one here is going to be
you know how you finish through okay so when you get as you're coming through the throw really this
ends up being a better option is you know we want to be coming down on the football you want to be
pulling the football down we want to be using the serratus we want to be using the lats we're using
the pec because we're doing horizontal adduction which means we're bringing our elbow closer to our
head right horizontal adduction is this so that's a peck action so you're already using your pecs
right but if you don't utilize your lats which are the muscles that pull you down you know pull ups
uh or your serratus which is a muscle that that kind of participates in in like the same thing
uh and you're only using those anterior muscles right so basically not using your rotator cuff
any of the muscles that that pull right only using muscles that push and and typically we see that
with people that are in more of like a c position or sorry a u position within their hands not a c
position right so we want to be able to get our wrists as neutral as we possibly can so then again
we're coming down on the football if you end up pushing it right or or as if you're you're
throwing like a shot put right shot putting the football that's going to end up putting a lot of
pressure on on your your pecs and i made a video you know probably like two three weeks ago that
was just about like slow down right doing it right is more important than just doing it okay and so
if you need to as a quarterback you know really takes some time to be able to slow the throw down
do that okay because that's critical super important for you to be able to do this correctly
right because if you're doing it incorrectly it's like the sprint right i always tell people this
like the sprint has been scientifically proven to be the best way to strengthen your hamstrings
right nothing is going to make it so you have to get more out of your hamstrings than sprinting
but right big butt here if you don't sprint correctly then you're not going to be utilizing
your hamstrings correctly so then you're not getting the full benefit of the exercise so we
have to teach you how to run correctly it's the same type of thing with the throw here right if
you're not able to throw the ball with the correct muscles and you continue to throw the ball with
the incorrect muscles then all we're going to do is make it so you are more at risk for an injury
more at risk for overuse more at risk for problems and we want to help you be able to get through
that right and so that's where the mechanics is great and again you can take just this video and
be able to make the change within the mechanics yes i mean i have shoulder stretches online too
you know so i would look at the shoulder stretches quarterback stretches video i'll also put a link
up here so you can go and access that i would say do the stretches change the mechanics
you'll make the the big difference and then if there's something specific that you need to change
again you can find those videos here or you can also check the description to
go to quarterback university which will give you a lot more detail and a lot more options
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