Episode #34 Building Rotational Power & Velocity For Pitchers and Throwers (Rob Hill & Steffan Jones)
Muscles and Management
English - August 21, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 49.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 165 ratingsCareers Business training strength training business sports sports performance athlete management career coaching baseball Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode Gerry talks to two coaches who are experts in the field of building pitchers (Driveline Baseball Manager of Technical Development Rob Hill) and Cricket fast bowlers (Steffan Jones, Global Fast Bowling Expert) and how they use similar philosophies to develop insane rotational power, velocity and overall explosiveness in throwing athletes.
To start, Rob and Steffan share their backgrounds on how they met and how both have found principles of the opposing sport to aid their athletes. They discuss the main similarities between pitching and fast bowling and the ways in which you can develop maximal velocity.
From there, Gerry discusses some strength training principles and how they mesh with the throwing specific work, and Steffan and Rob also divulge how they have utilized strength training to build better throwers.
All that and more on this episode!