Unlocking the Pitcher’s Potential: a few mistakes you don’t want to make I have unfortunately witnessed things throughout the year that in terms of performance and science, can be counter-productive to a pitcher’s development. And while I know that there is never any intent to interfere with a pitcher’s potential, it is really easy to miss some important details. In this last episode of the 2022 season, I give some food-for-thought on a few issues that warrant awareness on the part of pitchers, coaches, and parents. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

S9E08 - Unlocking the Pitcher’s Potential: a few mistakes you don’t want to make

In this arm-saving episode, we will discuss the side of the story that no one talks about or, better yet, warns you about. Signed as a Sophomore and forced to retire as a Senior due to injuries, Ian shares his mistakes, choices he regrets, and gives advice to the all-too-common situations that pitchers often find themselves in during their pitching career. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

S9E07 - Pitching Injuries: Seven Deadly Sins - Confessions and advice from ex D-1 pitcher Ian MacIver

S9E06 - Baseball Pitching Velocity: Your Seven-Step Checklist The title says it all. If you can't answer "yes" to these seven questions, the good news is... you haven't seen your max velocity potential. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

S9E06 - Baseball Pitching Velocity: Your Seven-Step Checklist

Bullpens are Sacred: Seven Ways to not waste Precious Time  In this second episode of my Summer Series of short podcasts designed to give you right now ideas for right now improvements, I talk about how to reinvent your bullpens with targeted ideas for practice. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

S9E05 - Bullpens are Sacred: Seven Ways to not waste Precious Time

Locating your Pitches:  a right-now suggestion for a right-now improvement Velocity doesn’t matter if you can’t locate your pitches. This episode will walk you through a solution that I use in my sessions that gives immediate and noticeable improvement. Velocity doesn’t matter if you can’t locate your pitches. This episode will walk you through a solution that I use in my sessions that gives immediate and noticeable improvement. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

S9E04 - Locating your Pitches: a right-now suggestion for a right-now improvement

The Rotation Phase of the pitching motion transfers the energy into the pitching shoulder, elbow, and wrist.  Efficient rotation includes the segments, their sequencing, and their separation.  Squaring-up-to the plate with power and efficiency affects the velocity and the location of the ball. I go into depth to help you understand it and feel it.  Included are drills and exercises to teach the motion to yourself or your pitchers. Click Here for YouTube Video Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

S9E03 - The Power Skill of the Pitching Motion: hip and trunk rotation

Understanding the role of the shoulder girdle muscles and its relationship to the shoulder can be complicated.  By using photos and drills, I explain how adding “feel” for this concept can improve velocity, the way you use your acceleration muscles, and help you create an easily repeatable arm action and release point. Click Here for YouTube Video Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com

S9E02 - How to Increase Velocity and Improve Ball Release Consistency while Reducing Shoulder Stress:  Pitch from your Shoulder Blades

How do you get from your back leg to your front leg as you move downhill?  If you don’t know the answer, then you may be leaving MPH on the mound instead of getting it to the ball. The skill of weight shift, which is how the stride is initiated, is one of the most widely unknown and mysterious skills of the pitching motion.  “Use your legs” should be “use your hips”. Find out how to create an efficient stride in this episode with the most unbelievable photos. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com Click Here for YouTube Video

S9E01 - Your Stride:  is it costing or adding to your velocity?

On your road to improved performance during this pre-season, don't forget to improve the specific angles and positions of each phase. The more efficient your body positions...the greater you can enhance your ability to improve your velocity. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com

S8E15 - Improving Velocity: The optimal structural shapes of the pitching motion for a clean acceleration path to the plate

Getting your arm and pitching motion ready for the upcoming 2022 season should be your number one priority during this month of the off-season, and your throwing program should be more than just distances and volumes. In this episode I talk about how to create your calendar as well as develop your pitching skills every time you throw a ball. Plan now to be the best pitching-version of yourself so you can get to where you want to be in 2022; get after it now. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  http://GymScience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

S8E14 - Your Return to Pitching:  everything you need to know to plan for serious and tangible results

Exotic pitches, side-arm vs over-arm throwing, and determining stride length, are just some of the teaching moments taken from viewing the MLB playoff pitchers. Don't miss this extended podcast which includes photos and exercise-ideas to get you started with training all your pitches in the gym. See the pictures and videos on YouTube Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  http://GymScience.com  https://AngelBorrelliPitching.com 

S8E13 - Split-finger Fastballs and Knuckle-Curves: use the gym to train your pitches

In this episode, I talk about the importance of looking at how well a pitcher hits his "spots" in his delivery before you decide to adjust something that doesn't look right to you. You will get tips on how to make this determination. Coach Larry Owens and I also talk about the complicated issue of the pitcher's position on the rubber (arm-side or glove-arm side) and the latest new trend where catchers are setting-up with one knee on the ground. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com http://GymScience.com 

S8E12 - What to do before you make an adjustment to a pitcher's delivery

In this episode, I answer questions from coaches regarding pitchers throwing BP and the ongoing issues around running. Coach Larry Owens hosts a discussion on some of the new policies and procedures with which the MLB is experimenting in the Minor League System: wider bases, pick-off moves, and much more. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com http://GymScience.com 

S8E11 - Answering Coaches' Fall Ball Questions

In this episode, Coach Larry Owens and I discuss the lost art of pitching inside and the moving of the mound back to 61’6”. My line-up of topics included:  Why asking youth pitchers to throw as hard as they can is dangerous My personal request to coaches to rethink the traditional running program that is used for pitchers and position players Middle-finger strength: it’s relationship to location  Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com https://GymScience.com

S8E10 - Some New Ideas and Precautions for Your Fall Ball Program

Don’t miss this episode: live videos, drills, exercises… everything you need to wrap your brain around the importance of the stability of the front leg. TM link: See the pictures and videos on YouTube Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com https://GymScience.com

S8E9 - Sticky Fingers…and Sticking the Landing: Part Two

In this episode, Coach Larry Owens and I dive into the topic of the day: the use of sticky substances by MLB pitchers. I interviewed three younger pitchers and you will hear their take-home messages about the subject. You will also hear Part One of “Sticking your Landing”; the importance of stability of the front leg for power through the acceleration and follow-through parts of the delivery especially as it relates to maintaining a good grip on the ball. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com https://GymScience.com

S8E8 - Sticky Fingers and Sticking your Landing: Part One…and how they are related

Using a comparison to a quarterback’s arm position, I discuss one of the most common flaws in shoulder mechanics that can cause inefficient spin, loss of velocity, and diminished command of the baseball. Leading with the elbow is especially common in youth pitchers. With an anatomy lesson in the forearm, and excellent questions from Coach Larry Owens of Bellarmine University, I teach how to see what it looks like and offer some tips on the why and how of understanding the issue. See the pictures on YouTube Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com https://GymScience.com

S8E7 - Pitching Velocity and Command: how it can be compromised by Leading with the Elbow

The fingers and fingertips are the last body part to have contact with the ball which makes them the most important body part to understand, have feel for, and strengthen. This episode was created to give you a new way, or a reminder, about the importance of what happens as the ball leaves your hand. Head Coach Larry Owens from Bellarmine University is my Co-Host and as always, he sheds his unique perspective on this topic and the current increase in the hit-by-pitch statistic. Watch the Drills on YouTube Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com www.GymScience.com

S8E6 - Finger “tips” for controlling the fastball: my six-drill plan to increase your feel for the release of the most important pitch in your arsenal

In this episode, I share an “eye candy” moment from the mechanics of Giolito and Bieber. Using a detail of their mechanics as a sample, you will learn how to see and understand the shoulder position prior to the max external rotation position along with how to teach the feel and the skill involved. Angel Borrelli Pitching You Tube Channel Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com www.GymScience.com

S8E5 - In-season Troubleshooting: the magical moment before max external rotation

Incomplete rotation to the plate Timing Stretch vs. Wind-up stride differences…  …are the topics discussed in this episode of The Fix. Troubleshooting a pitcher’s issues during the season must be done differently than in the off-season. If pitchers start to show sudden location, velocity, or arm-soreness issues, as coaches you need easy and simple ways to recognize the issues and make simple adjustments. This episode will give you some of the easiest fixes I use to get the job done without doing a complete overhaul to the pitcher’s delivery. Email Angel at angel@gymscience.com  https://www.GymScience.com 

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