Posted on Sunday, 14th March 2010 by Eric Cressey

Q: I run into a TON of Fathers who want their son to gain velocity.  What are your keys to gaining velocity?
A: To be blunt, Step 1 is getting away from your crazy overbearing father and realizing that if you’re going to throw the ball hard, it’s because YOU want to do it, and are [...]

Tags: Baseball Workouts, Increasing Throwing Velocity, Little League, Matt Blake, Pitching Coach, pitching injuries, Pro Baseball Pitcher Workout
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Posted on Friday, 12th March 2010 by Eric Cressey

1.I spent about 2.5 days in Las Vegas earlier this week to present at the NSCA Personal Trainers Conference.  I really enjoyed the event, as it was a chance to interact with a lot of new people (I don’t speak out west very often) and hopefully help some enthusiastic, up-and-coming trainers add to their skill [...]

Tags: Baseball Workouts, Kevin Youkilis, Mike Reinold, NSCA, shoulder impingement, Shoulder Pain, Tim Collins
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Posted on Friday, 5th March 2010 by Eric Cressey

Today marks the end of one of the funnest “eras” of my life.
Back on September 9, we officially kicked off the pro baseball off-season with Tim Collins’ arrival at Cressey Performance for his first training session of the off-season.  Coming off a great season that included a promotion to Double-A at age 20 and a [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 3rd March 2010 by Eric Cressey

Back in December, I was honored to be included as one of several speakers who presented at Ron Wolforth’s 2009 Ultimate Pitching Coaches Bootcamp.  As was the case in previous years, it was a great event that brought together a lot of forward-thinking minds from various roles in the pitching world.  Today, I’m happy to [...]

Tags: Baseball Workouts, Brent Strom, Off-Season Training for Pitchers, Pro Baseball Pitcher Workout, Ron Wolforth, ultimate pitching coaches boot camp
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Posted on Monday, 22nd February 2010 by Eric Cressey

The following video excerpt is from my November seminar with Mike Reinold.  It’ll be available in its entirety very shortly when we release our new DVD series, Optimal Shoulder Performance: From Rehabilitation to High Performance. I just thought you might like a teaser!

In the meantime, don’t miss out on the Spring Training Sale that’s going [...]

Tags: Baseball Workouts, Mike Reinold, Pitching Workout Programs, Pro Baseball Pitcher Workout, Rotator Cuff Exercises, shoulder impingement, Shoulder Pain
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Posted on Thursday, 4th February 2010 by Eric Cressey

I got a nice surprise in my email inbox from some of my athletes on the West Coast yesterday.  If you laughed at Posterized, you’ll love this.

Tags: Baseball Workouts, Cressey Performance, Pro Baseball Pitcher Workout
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Posted on Wednesday, 3rd February 2010 by Eric Cressey

Today marks another great blog Q&A from Matt Blake.
Q: I was quite shocked to learn that only three pitchers have ever made it to the Big Leagues from the Little League World Series (LLWS). It makes perfect sense, as the mature kid at 12 generates more velocity than little Billy. Most parents assume that since [...]

Tags: Baseball Workouts, Little League, Matt Blake, pitching injuries
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Posted on Sunday, 31st January 2010 by Eric Cressey

The college coach of one of our current pro baseball players was asking me about the rotator cuff program he’s doing with us now, and I figured I’d turn it into today’s topic.  We take a bit of a different approach with it than you’ll see with a lot of guys in the industry, and [...]

Tags: Baseball Workouts, Medicine Ball, Mike Reinold, pitching injuries, Pro Baseball Pitcher Workout, Rotator Cuff Exercises, shoulder impingement, Shoulder Pain
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Posted on Friday, 29th January 2010 by Eric Cressey

Today, we’ve got the first in a series of Q&A contributions from Matt Blake.
Q: What do you think of Ron Johnson’s presentation at the ABCA convention where he stated that curveballs are okay for youths to throw and that they do not cause any structural damage beyond what a fastball does? Rather, it was the [...]

Tags: Baseball Workouts, Little League, Matt Blake, pitching injuries
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Posted on Thursday, 21st January 2010 by Eric Cressey

Programs aimed at rapid fat loss are quite the rave nowadays.  There are some excellent programs out there (most notably Warpspeed Fat Loss, which we’ve discussed here quite a bit) that deliver some quick reductions in body fat over the course of a few weeks of absolutely hellish training and strict nutritional modifications.  There’s no [...]

Tags: Baseball Workouts, CC Sabathia, Fat Loss, Increasing Throwing Velocity, Interval Training, John Berardi, Maximum Strength, Pro Baseball Pitcher Workout, Warpspeed Fat Loss, Weight Loss
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