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Many coaches do not really understand correct pitching mechanics, and therefore their pitchers spend a lot of their time doing drills that are not really very effective for improving pitching speed and accuracy. They probably also make their players life weights to build up arm strength, but this isn’t required in order to throw at a higher velocity. The amount of time dedicated to baseball pitching workouts could be much better spent if coaches would focus on the pitching techniques and the way that the entire body can be used to generate explosive power to increase the speed of a pitcher’s pitching.
Some of the more common components of most pitching workouts include pitching drills, lifting weights, flat ground pitching, and stretching have actually been shown to make it more likely for pitchers to become injured or actually end up decreasing a pitcher’s velocity. This is because many of these methods or drills focus more on the arm than on the body as a whole. The best pitching comes from pitchers who use their entire body in order to throw the pitch, and not just their arms. If you use your whole body for pitching, and use it with maximum effectiveness, there are certain postures that your body should go through, and if a pitcher trains his body in how it feels to be in these positions, it it eventually feels natural to use proper pitching mechanics.
Although this theory has been proved in a number of studies, word hasn’t really traveled through the masses and hasn’t really reached most coaches. Consequently, many coaches continue to have their pitchers spending wasted time in baseball pitching workouts with worthless methods of pitching. Many people are beginning to learn about the importance of using their whole body and the proper way to throw a pitch through the use of training videos and manuals that are being sold on the internet.
Maybe, as more studies are done showing the typical training programs are not as effective as many believed, there will be more coaches switching to more effective pitching training regimens. Better workouts will focus on leading players through proper pitching mechanicsb, starting with the end and moving backwards, and on learning how to use their body to harness the explosive velocity that can be generated through pitching a baseball correctly.