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Velocity isn’t built in the arm. It’s built everywhere else.
The exercises in this post train the ATHLETE, not just the ARM...
the legs that drive off the mound, the hips that rotate, the trunk that transfers force up the chain.
Here’s the problem.
So many of the injured high school and college arms I see started breaking down years earlier, in middle school.
Chasing velo. Year-round competition. Three teams and a travel schedule. And almost none of the strength and athletic development the most durable arms are built on.
The result is the most skill-specialized, physically underprepared generation of athletes I’ve seen in 20+ years.
Kids throw harder, younger.
The adults watch the radar gun and smile...
Until 15, when the mileage catches up and instead of a scholarship, its an operating table.
15–19 year olds now make up more than half of all Tommy John surgeries (Erickson et al., 2015). And 74% of “healthy” youth players already report arm pain when they throw (Makhni et al., 2015).
It’s not that parents don’t care.
They care so much they say yes to everything.
What’s usually missing is the second sport: real, coached strength training.
It’s safe for young athletes, it improves throwing, and good programs may cut overuse injuries roughly in half (Lloyd et al., 2014).
I’ve watched too many talented arms burn out before it mattered.
So I built a free resource to help change that...
THE LONG GAME: The parent’s and coach’s playbook for protecting young arms, building real athletes, and playing baseball for years, not just this season.
Inside:
⚾ How young arms actually get hurt
⚾ The 3 dials of throwing load (it’s not just pitch counts)
⚾ Strength training by age, 10–18
⚾ The 2-minute Arm Health Score
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