Strength and Conditioning Stuff You Should Read: 11/18/19

Written on November 18, 2019 at 4:17 am, by Eric Cressey

Let’s kick off the week with some recommended reading and listening from around the ‘Net:

Eric Cressey Talks Shoulders and Modern Baseball – I joined Jason Glass on his podcast to discuss baseball training and much more.

He told a kid to slide. Then he got sued. – This is a great write-up on a legal battle with implications for every coach. It’s scary to think that our society is this litigious, particularly when it comes to a well-intentioned, under compensated high school baseball coach.

Todd Hamer: Getting Fired, Re-creating Yourself, and Shaping Your Role – Todd Hamer is one of my favorite people in the strength and conditioning field, and he shares some excellent career insights on this podcast with Brett Bartholomew.

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Everyone knows that you might contraindicate an exercise because it’s harmful, but shockingly few people appreciate that sometimes leaving an exercise out is more about the fact that you simply have something more productive to do with that training time and recovery capacity.

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One of the most important “competencies” for being a durable pitcher is having as much active control of your passive external rotation range-of-motion at the shoulder. 👇 It’s a big red flag for me when I see a pitcher with loads of passive external rotation (measured in supine) who is weak as a kitten in a prone external rotation against gravity past 90 degrees of external rotation. Here, @ckluber28 shows off really good active control over a big ROM on a prone external rotation end-range lift-off. Notice that he avoids the most common substitution patterns: wrist extension, elbow flexion, elbow extension, and scapular depression. 👏, Corey. 👍 I would call this exercise a motor control drill. We use it in warm-ups and as fillers between medicine ball drills. It complements cuff strength and timing drills nicely in a comprehensive arm care program. 👊 Apologies for the shaky camera work. I get excited when I see good arm care work in action.😂 #cspfamily #clevelandindians

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