hey what's up everyone morey croson here from the performance lab of California and we're gonna do
another breakdown here today on Peyton Manning I thought this was a great recommendation to
do a comparison of Peyton Manning before he had the neck surgery compared to the after the neck
surgery and what was kind of you know some of the big differences between his throwing motion before
and his throwing motion after so I will start with with the before which is up here obviously
when he was when he was on the Colts big thing I'd say is that he was able to get a lot more
spine action before then he was as the delivering of his career so to to transpire so and he also
had better shoulder range of motion so one of the reasons or one of the ways that I checked
shoulder range of motion is when you transition from this kind of loading phase and I know that
I mean this is 2004 here and so the the cold stuff and so the the video quality is not as good but as
you can see when he transfers his when he begin to rotate transfer his weight forward um you
can just look at the angle in his spine and you can see that that before he had just a lot a lot
healthier spine angle he didn't end up going into a lot of hyperextension and end up and actually
bending forward in his spine a good amount would hit the ball still in his hand and we're gonna
go back and we'll end up going back and forth a little bit here but notice the the post Peyton
Manning where as he's going here notice how much extension he gets in the spine when he still has
the the ball in his hand and how you know what that essentially does is that that's an indicator
that the shoulder range of motion wasn't as good he probably started getting limitation because of
the limitation within the segment of the joint or maybe even having those joints doing getting
compressed together that's all that's a big red flag for lack of shoulder range of motion so know
when I'm treating and their problems or shoulder problems that a lot of times we'll end up looking
at the opposite one so if there's a shoulder range of motion looking to see what's going on
the neck because those have direct correlation so and then because of that because he has to end up
getting this extension here he doesn't really get to have very much overall spine motion in
the actual throw and so as he's coming across here you can see really all he gets into throat
just this kind of last little kind of uh gouge forward with the mid-back but he's mostly throwing
with it with his arm and he's mostly bringing all of his weight forward right he's bringing
all his weight towards the target there and in the spine which is a little bit different than
what he used to do which is and this is a pretty similar throw here so we can see that he's going
he's loading and as you transfers forward and as he throws notice that look at that spine movement
right there see how he can bend over the spine and really get all the way up onto that that
front leg and really finish all the way through there and he almost kind of bends off to the side
as he ends up coming through which I think ends up being a big difference between you know how he was
throwing before compared to how he's throwing now we have another probably another angle here of him
throwing all right here here's the one where we can see from behind what it looks like when he's
coming through how he ends up coming through and also being able to bend a little bit more to the
side as he's coming through the the actual throw so he comes back and notice that one he doesn't
can do as much extension within that lumbar spine so and a little bit of extension here but then as
he comes through he also ends up kind of rotating all the way through and being able to kind of bend
over to the side there I think it's full elbow movement all the way all the way back and then we
again we can compare that to the old way that he sorry the new way that he threw where he's going
into that lumbar extension and ends up bending for he doesn't get near as much of that elbow
all the way through as he's throwing and he's much more again coming right towards the target
so I think would end up really getting getting limited between the before payment in the after
paint landing was wine the limitation shoulder range motion then the other one was a limitation
of spine rotation especially within my the mid-to you know kind of the upper lower spine I guess but
mostly mid spine didn't get as much rotation both of those end up being very very common with when
you have compression within the neck when you have problems there then you end up losing again that
shoulder any motion like I talked about as well as the ability to rotate the spine so and those
are both both very very important parts of being able to throw the ball far as having good mobility
within that team spine as well as also having I'm obviously good shoulder range of motion so those
are definitely two two very important parts of the training that we do within the the quarterback
online program a lot of exercises that we focus on there are going to be getting more range of motion
that the rest is fine and also extension within that thoracic spine as well as overall range of
motion within the shoulder then improving just general strength within the shoulder and those
those four things I think are crucial in order to maximize your overall potential as a quarterback
so if you haven't checked that out go ahead you click the link below and you can check
out more about that that online throat program also check out the free ebook the blueprint to
the perfect throw packed with information about how you can throw better as a quarterback one
of the key mechanics and you need to do it's not necessarily showing you you know a a certain way
that you a certain mold that you have to fit into just showing you overall what are some key aspects
of the throw that you should be able to understand some key concepts that you should probably have in
your throw in order to to maximize your again overall potential overall performance so check
those out as always guys we thank you so much for watching these videos and we will see you soon