The Throwing Sock is a valuable tool for athletes with shoulder or elbow pain!
For athletes experiencing discomfort with traditional baseball throws, the throwing sock often allows them to continue throwing pain-free. By using a 7oz ball inside the sock, we effectively slow the arm down while still maintaining the benefits of a full throwing motion.
It’s also a practical solution for confined spaces, eliminating the need for a throwing partner or mat. Additionally, it provides the opportunity to stay on schedule during inclement weather, such as rain or snow.
Beyond convenience, the throwing sock helps to promote proper deceleration patterns and strengthens the posterior shoulder muscles, making it a valuable resource for optimizing performance and injury prevention.
College coaches- Let’s talk about some bad ideas- like very early morning bullpens.
Your CNS learns/adapts to what hours of the day you normally ramp it up.
If all of your games are past 2 PM… why in the world do you have guys ripping before 8?
Want best results? Go later.
@AaronRozek That there’s always some degree of deceleration when you accelerate, but if you don’t decelerate well, you can benefit from training the deceleration.
With everything going on in the lives of high school athletes, they shouldn’t have to think about what they should do on a given day.
They should be told what told by someone has the time to look at the factors involved and make a plan.
So athletes can just focus on doing it
Water balls are med balls that you don’t have to worry if it’s going to break the wall you throw it against.
But go check out an A ball road set up and tell me you can just use a med ball.
Did you throw today?
Sundays off in November is fine, but if you haven’t thrown in a week you’ll likely need two weeks to catch back up.
If you don’t know if you should be throwing or not, shoot us a DM and let us help.
If you are behind your competitive peer group in velocity there’s a good chance you aren’t throwing often enough. Throw a little today, throw more tomorrow, try to throw hard the next, repeat for the next 21 days.
At some point, keeping guys on the field will be the number one priority at the highest level. As an industry we are getting good at creating stuff, if we can keep them healthy they will have time to harness that stuff.
It’s not sexy. But the most important thing, especially this time of year, is your arm feeling good. Throwing hard involves stress, but soreness, pain, tightness in one spot consistently is a dashboard indicator of what could be ahead. Fix that.