Potato Pitch: How's Your Shouldah?

Baseball season is here.

Before moving to the Boston area, I thought that Massachusetts was a big ice hockey state. Well, it is, which is great, considering that hockey is just the best sport. However, MA is a baseball state. Baseball is very popular, and more than I ever thought. So, since this throwing sport is in-season, prompting the public to participate in leisure throwing on warm and sunny days, let's get throwers on the right path. Pain free. Full of distance. Full of good form. Also, if you are female, then you throw like a female because you are a female. If you are a male, then you throw like a male...because you are male. The old cliche of "you throw like a girl" has been nipped in the bud...thrown away!

Just a few rules before throwing your balls and Frisbees:
1) Warm up the arm and shoulder.
2) Throw to someone.
3) If no one is available, then throw at a wall. Some parks have a ball-wall...for wall-ball.
4) Adopt some strength and flexibility:
5) Lastly, you do not have to be Tom Brady, Robert Griffin III, or Mariano Rivera when throwing or when warming up to throw. You only have to be [insert your name]:

With heart,

Derek

Derek Arledge, CSCS       www.teempt.com       TEEM Performance Training

Front Plank Full Arm Extension

Medicine Ball Overhead/Soccer/Futbol Throw Extension Form

Medicine Ball Overhead/Soccer/Futbol Throw Flexed Form (Begin)

Medicine Ball Underhand Throw Extension Phase

Medicine Ball Underhand Throw Squat Phase (Begin)

Modified Jumping Jack Flexion Phase

Modified Jumping Jack Extension Phase

Power Walk - it's a good warm up

Sit-to-Stand Roaming 1

Sit-to-Stand Roaming 2

Sit-to-Stand Roaming 3

1/2 Kneeling Tubing Horizontal Fly

1/2 Kneeling Tubing Throw Form (Flexed/Cocked)

1/2 Kneeling Tubing Throw Form (Extension/Follow Through)

Standing Tubing Single Arm Throw Form (QB Warm-up)

Standing Tubing Single Arm Throw Form Press (QB Warm-up)