Pitching Drills and Workouts
The In-Season Workout for Baseball Pitchers
Spring is here and pitchers have to get in shape for baseball season. Unless you do, you will be unable to stay strong and healthy over a grueling season. (Watch [...]
Special Conditioning for Pitchers
When conditioning for any sport, it is important to understand that conditioning doesn't just mean "getting in shape," as most people think. (Check out STACK's conditioning page.) A well-conditioned athlete [...]
How Young Pitchers Should Prepare for the Upcoming Season
In essence, pitching is a series of perfectly timed movements, so preparing to pitch should also be sequenced and timed for perfection. After all, the best pitching performances are called [...]
Pitchers: Throw Harder With This Med Ball Workout
Pitching a baseball is one of the most complex and difficult-to-train sports skills. If you want to throw harder, you need to rethink how you work out. (Check out Justin Verlander's [...]
How Pitchers Can Prevent Elbow Injuries
Every season, you hear about major league pitchers who undergo Tommy John surgery and spend extended time on the disabled list. While men on the mound are more susceptible to [...]
Tommy John Surgery and Baseball Pitchers
No one would’ve blamed Tommy John if he’d quit. By the 1974 season, the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher had already played more than 10 years in the major leagues, including [...]
Baseball Conditioning: Considerations For Pitchers
When setting up a program for baseball conditioning, the most important design consideration is the physical demands of the individual positions. For pitchers: baseball is classified as a "repeat sprint" sport, [...]
The Year(s) of the Pitcher: Train Like Baseball's Best Pitchers
There’s a reason why big-league pitchers are putting up record numbers. Today’s pro hurlers are workout fanatics, beasts in the gym during the off-season, so they can throw heat all [...]
Baseball Injury Prevention: The Strasburg Limit Is Not the Only Way
Stephen Strasburg burst onto the MLB scene and dominated batters with his 100+ mph fastball. Unfortunately, it quickly led to Tommy John surgery. Two years after the surgery, his general [...]
4 Baseball Psychology Secrets from Seattle Mariners Pitcher "King Felix" Hernandez
Want to learn some pitching secrets from a perfect pitcher? On Aug. 15, the Seattle Mariners' Felix Hernandez tossed the 23rd perfect game in Major League Baseball history and the [...]
