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Assessments and Data Collection at the High School Level: Why, How, and When | Part I
Recently I spent some time with a few great high school coaches —one a performance coach, another a fundamental coach. Over the course of many discussions, the fundamental coach, a head football coach, asked me the following question: Of all the new things you’ve learned and come across lately in this industry, is there anything Read more
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3 Reasons Why Your Athlete Shouldn’t Specialize Early – Part II (Guest Post by Lauren Green, Brooklyn Nets)
Note from the editor: Since sharing the first part of this incredibly well-thought out and written piece with us, Coach Lauren Green (formerly of the Los Angeles Dodgers organization) has taken a new position, now working as an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach with the Brooklyn Nets organization. Even though Lauren has spent considerable time working Read more
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The Value of Using Low-Intensity Eccentrics
Most strength and conditioning professionals have read the training manual Triphasic Training, have seen Cal Dietz – the writer of said manual – speak at a conference on the topic, or in the very least have heard of it. Without doing Cal the injustice of trying to fully explain his work, the general idea is to first Read more
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Considerations for Managing the Amateur Pitcher
Today’s youth, adolescent, and amateur pitchers experience a much different brand of baseball than those of generations past. As such, they also undergo entirely different demands. Sure, the kinematic progression over the course of a pitching career probably hasn’t changed all that much, so the physiological demands from the pitching motion itself are relatively the Read more
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The Tommy John Epidemic and Velocity: Are We Nearing Our Physical Limitations?
Not much elaboration is needed when discussing the widespread baseball phenomenon we call the Tommy John Epidemic. With the rates of Tommy John Surgeries in Major & Minor League Baseball spiking in 2015, and the current media spotlight on pitching injuries (including a highly-acclaimed investigative book looking into the “Billion-dollar industry that is pitching”) the emphasis placed on Read more
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Pitchers Recovery – An Untraditional Approach to the Post-Pitching Routine
Today I’d like to take some time to discuss an alternative to traditional pitcher recovery strategies (in terms of strength and conditioning); methods that I believe hold the potential for more goal-oriented recovery — the Recovery Circuit. Below I will explain what the Recovery Circuit consists of (and why), provide sample clips, and suggest some applications Read more
Ryan J. Faer 