How to throw 90 miles an hour.
I get this question a lot on my website along with how to throw faster, or how to throw
harder, or how to throw a baseball faster, OK, and let’s talk about it today not from
a pitching perspective but from a throwing perspective whether you’re pitching or playing
outfield because it’s all very similar.
You’re throwing an object.
And how do we throw a baseball faster?
Well, there’s two types of energy that you’re going to create when you’re throwing a baseball.
First is going to be your linear energy which you’re creating going towards your target.
So if you’re a pitcher driving down that mound that’s going to be your linear energy.
If you’re an outfielder fielding that ball and running towards home, your momentum going
towards your target or wherever you’re trying to throw it is going to be your linear energy.
The second type of energy is going to be rotational energy.
The energy that you get out of your hips or your separation from your hips to your throwing
arm or your hips to your shoulder, hip to shoulder separation.
Now, I made a video about the two types of energy in baseball and how to leverage each
one so I definitely recommend go and watch that video after this one, but I wanted to
talk a little bit more in-depth today about how to train to get the most out of those
two types of energy so that you can know how to throw a 90-mile-an-hour or know how to
throw faster or how to throw harder, OK.
So first of all, when it comes to trying to get the most out of your energy when you’re
throwing, you want to train to have some mobility meaning you want to be very flexible.
If you’re too tight and your hips are too tight and your shoulders, you’re not going
to have a good range of motion to create that energy through; therefore, you’re not going
to throw this hard.
So you have to train to be more flexible, OK.
If you want, you go look up mobility exercises on YouTube.
There’s hundreds of things you can do.
Just hit mobility.
Ankle mobility, shoulder mobility, everything.
Just being more flexible all around, OK.
Number two is that you have to train explosively, alright.
Pitching is not or throwing is not a slow strong movement, OK.
It’s very explosive.
Think about like a vertical jump.
That’s more like pitching.
You’re going down and jumping up as high as you can, right?
It’s very explosive.
Pitching is the same way.
You’re on the mound throwing the same way.
You’re on the mound or in the outfield or whatever it is, and you throw the ball as
hard as you can.
Boom.
And then you got a little bit of a break.
So you want to train that way.
So plyometric training is great for pitching, alright.
You want to train explosively; jumps, box, jumps side to side, skaters, all types of
explosive movement are going to translate good into how to throw a 90-mile an hour or
how to throw faster, OK.
So if you’re looking for that, that’s the way you need to train.
And number three is a good throwing program.
Your arm is not the only thing obviously, but it’s a big part of it.
You have to create the stability in there, and you have to create the arm speed in there.
So if you’re training on a good throwing program that’s going to help you stay, first
of all, stay free from injury which is a big thing, right?
Lesson number one pitching stack you’re looking for in each pitch, right?
So that’s a big part of it, stacking free from injury.
Obviously, you’re going to try to create more arm speed which is going to let you throw
the ball faster, and then you’re going to put it all together.
If you got a strong arm, a fast arm, a stable arm, something that’s going to keep you
free from injury, and then you’ve been training explosively and you got good range of motion,
you got a good chance on throwing the baseball faster or harder further or how to throw 90
mile an hour, right.
So that’s just a quick answer.
Obviously, there’s a lot more involved in pitching, and in my new pitching program,
we go in-depth on all this stuff with videos about everything from mechanics to training,
from the mental part like everything you need in there is going to be covered.
So check that out, and if you got any questions, let me know.