Coach Mitchell great dynamic type warmup and thanks for your great content. I have the only mobile band attachment rail tower that is easy to move and set up anywhere. Work on arm/shoulder care, flexibility, durability and strength in a group safely! On sale now!
This is a real world training session. Aside from leopard crawls, everything featured in this video was installed during this session. It’s not perfect, but it’s a solid starting point.
Here we focus on:
1. Lateral leopard crawls (part of our warmup - trains the serratus anterior which is critical to shoulder health)
2. Lateral A-march - looking for Ken Clark’s “3 bucket” position
3. Multi-directional extensive plyos with just a touch of “sport specificity” in the footwork (chill SCs, I’m not selling sport specificity snake oil).
4. Working several different angles of cuts and decel positions - these need the most work but that’s to be expected.
12-year-old Xavier Taylor from Maple Shade, NJ, remains in extremely critical condition on a ventilator after a heartbreaking freak accident on May 26. ⚾💔
While warming up before a youth baseball game at Fellowship Columbia Bank Field, Xavier — a passionate pitcher/shortstop who lives for the game — was walking back to the dugout when an errant throw from a teammate struck him in the neck. He collapsed and went into cardiac arrest. His dad (a retired firefighter) rushed to him, and Xavier was airlifted to Cooper University Hospital.
His father, Greg Taylor, has stressed it was a complete **freak accident with no one to blame**. Xavier, known for writing Bible verses on his hats and playing on multiple teams, is fighting hard. The family is holding onto faith and miracles.
The community has rallied with prayer vigils, “Bats Out for X,” #6 shirts, and massive support. Videos of the vigils, father’s emotional updates, and local news coverage are circulating widely on TikTok — search #XavierStrong for raw community moments.
**A prayer shared for Xavier & his family:**
“Heavenly Father, we lift up Xavier Taylor to You. You know every detail of his life. Before he needed a miracle, he followed You, prayed to You, and wore Your Scriptures. Surround his family with peace. Lord, we ask for a miracle. In Jesus’ name, Amen.” 🙏
Prayers up for full recovery, strength for the Taylors, and the whole Maple Shade baseball family. He will play again.
#XavierStrong #PrayForXavier #MapleShade
Coach Brewster thank you for sharing. You may be interested in my band attachment rail products for your arm care. Multiple attachment points for placing bands at numerous elevations to execute all movements properly. Wall mount or mobile group training band attachment tower!
Full Pre-Throwing Band Routine 💪
There are many ways to execute the arm-specific part of your warm-up.
While bands are not mandatory (medballs, arm circles, indian clubs, shoulder tubes, etc. also work), if you're going to do them, take a logical approach to the routine.
The goal here is not strengthening, and you shouldn't be creating fatigue.
Overloaded arm care movements do have their place and can be done post-throw or worked into your weekly lifting routine.
The main goals for this band routine are:
1. Drive blood flow from scaps to fingertips
2. Improved motor control/muscle activation through a full range of motion
We can break this down into a few areas:
1. Fingers/wrist/forearm
Both the flexor-pronator muscles that help offload torque from the UCL, as well as the extensors and supinator that help with deceleration.
2. Elbow
Both the biceps and triceps, which serve deceleration and stabilization functions, respectively.
3. Scap
Driving range of motion, control, and stimulating both the accelerators (pec, lat), decelerators (low/mid trap, rhomboids), and scapular stabilizers (serratus).
4. Shoulder
Control and range through ER/IR, stimulating both subscap and posterior cuff while maintaining joint positioning.
Check out our YouTube for a step-by-step walkthrough of the routine, along with the most common mistakes ~90% of pitchers make when executing a band routine.
Coach Gates your content and program speaks for itself💰🎤don’t know if you utilize and band training in your programming but I’m a start up made in Midwest USA small company. I’ve developed some great rail equipment both wall mount or mobile group training band attachment tower.
We had about 60 college football players come through in the last couple weeks for our first ever NFL combine prospect camp. Just wrapped it up Friday. Was fun, we’ll definitely do it again next year.
The best American made gym equipment:
- Racks: Rogue, Sorinex, PRx
- Plates: Strength Co, Rogue, Weight It Out
- Barbells - Rogue, Texas Power Bar, American Barbell
- Dumbbells - Black Iron Strength, Iron Grip
- Machines - Hammer Strength, Sorinex, Arsenal
- Custom - BlackWidow
𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲: NFL personality Annie Agar confirms her significant weight loss is not due to Ozempic but is due to her cutting out sugar and doing incline walks daily.
She is "okay" and there is no "cause for concern" according to Agar.
@JoeAratari Coach Aratari, love your facility and content you share. I would like to share some of my Arm care equipment that can be wall mounted or a mobile group training band attachment tower. Multi-use, Multi sport, 100 attachment points at numerous elevations to perform movements safely
Girls. Training. And ACL Tears.
Girls don't need a 3 day ACL program or a 5 minute ACL Warm up. Girls don't need a 6-8 wk bootcamp.
It is not a one off thing you do in a 3 day clinic or a 10 minute warm up. It's not a bootcamp right before the season just to not continue with training while in-season.
Girls need sound, progressive and comprehensive S&C 2-3x wk for at least 40 wks during the year during their off and in-season competition periods. Quad Strength. Glute strength. Landing mechanics. Deceleration. Pivoting/Twisting. Taking contact. Conditioning. Agility. Isometrics. Power work. Etc..
Cannot be neglected for weeks or MONTHS on end.
It is total negligence to go months without a weight room session or even a break in a kids schedule to make time for training.
It's a year round plan of attack to do the best we can to mitigate risk.
Girls sports and those involved need to do better and what is in our power/control.
I hesitate to share this but maybe it needs to be shared. When coaches fail kids, someone should speak up.
Twice in the past two weeks, 4 girls, all freshmen & sophomores, made nearly a 3- hour round trip to train with me in the parking lot of Dryden Elementary, across from my house.
The girls run at a small school. They are talented. Their MPHs (Dashr Silver): 18.9, 18.7, 18.6, and 17.9. Their verticals (OVR): 25, 24, 22, 19. Solid athletes!
After the first session, parents said the workout was the first positive experience of the season. The girls wanted to do it again.
Problem #1: track practice should not be consistently miserable. 🥴
The girls told me that their meet warmup was to run two laps as a team. I showed them how sprinters warm up. When they asked their coach if they could try a new warmup, the coach made them run a mile. 🥴
They think their best chance to qualify for state is the 4x1. (Remember, they are all underclassmen.)
I had them practice handoffs. They had been taught some crazy things:
1) Run in middle of lane (no inside-outside lane ownership) 🥴
2) Baton stayed in right hand (no R-L-R-L). 🥴
3) One “go mark” at only “5 short steps” (measured to be 12’) 🥴
4) They had never been videoed doing an exchange 🥴
I taught them how to do it right, hoping their coach wouldn’t find out and punish them with a two mile run. Our go mark was 16’ with a bang step (first step down at mark). I videoed every exchange. I maintained their upsweep technique. They looked GREAT. ⚡️
The girls were free to train yesterday because they didn’t have practice on the Monday of Sectional… because the boys team had a meet. 🥴
For Sectional tomorrow, I wish they weren’t all required to do 4 events. Wish they could concentrate on 4x1 and 4x4 (they have a chance in both). One girl is entered in 4x1, 4x2, 300h, and 4x4. Never have I entered a boy in those 4 events, let alone at a Sectional. Another has to run 200 and 4x4 back-to-back. 🥴
It’s sometimes hard to support the work of other coaches.
Kids get one chance to do high school sports.
Consider leverages when you are prescribing exercises. Giving High Handle Trapbar (worse if rogue bar) Deadlifts to someone who is 5’3 and celebrating them ‘deadlifting’ 300lbs is like cheering on the old guy at the Y who leg presses 1000lbs for 1/16 ROM.
This may be the best all-in-one squat rack ever designed.
It combines:
- squat rack
- lever arms
- Freemotion style cable crossover
- Cable stack machine oriented push-pull movements
All in a compact, German-made rack.
Essentially a home gym Swiss-Army knife.
I developed a great mobile band attachment towers for group training for arm/ shoulder care as well as all internal/external warmup exercises. Wheel it out to the turf to train numerous athletes simultaneously!
Coach Heron, great content! You may be interested in my new to market band attachment towers/rails. Wall mount or moveable unit. Great for group training multiple athletes simultaneously for Arm/shoulder care, flexibility, mobility, durability and strength! Mike at (563)508-5699
Our 7th grade girls are on a whole different level than I ever imagined they’d be.
I’ll be posting all school content from our school account first from now on. Give us a follow if you enjoy this stuff!!!
Thanks!!
@HollidayTXSandC
Great content coach Jones. I have a great mobile band attachment tower, 4 rails, 120 attachment points at any elevation for group training! Wheel out to field or court.
The LA RAMS are executing the basics like savages.
This is what real training looks like, whether you like it or not. Not a mini band ladder tennis ball obstacle course.
Rest In Peace: Former NFL defensive end Josh Mauro has sadly passed away at the young age of 35 years old.
"Josh Mauro is now healed and made new, living in the presence og the Lord. Josh breathed his last breath on this earth and his first breath in heaven."
Sending prayers to the Mauro family 🙏🕊️