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Before we even pick up the baseball gloves they even throw. The first thing we need to make sure we do is that we warm our bodies up properly throw, never ever throw them up and what I mean by that is do not show up, pick a ball up and call yourself getting warm by throwing a baseball. What you need to do is warm your body and being prepared to throw the baseball. Whenever you go to practice I cannot stress this enough you need to warm your body up throw.
So, what we are going to do is with Jay and Timmy’s assistance, I will show you a couple exercises that going to help you. One of the things I like to have in do first which we want to do today is run and we run like to have more with a baseball in there hand. You may ask why do we that, we run with the baseball on the hand to get a feel for it which would become finish much time as you can so for run. Let us put a ball in our hand, work on the four seam grip two seams across the two short seams but get a feel for it.
Once they have run they got a little sweat going then when it come in, we are going to stretch, okay that disrupt you, you go up, what we are going to do is we are going to-- hands to shoulder. They going to take right arm across their chest and they are going to grab it. What we are going to work on here is concentrate in stretching the rotator back in here we will get that lose especially with the throw in arms since we got two right ends.
Another drill, we can take the arm behind the back, pull the elbow down and try to stretch as far down as you can, really getting a good stretch. Now we can switch over to the left side, doing the same thing, reach down your back. Do not hurt yourself, nice and control. Let us put are hand up and fingers up, what we going to do is pull our fingers back you got a little pull right here in the form, we are getting our whole body ready to go because the risk is going to play a big factor along with the form.
Now we can rotate the down, palm out, then you get another pull and you get that flexibility there. Let us go to the left arm, fingers up, and down. I cannot stress the importance of making as a daily portion in your routine. Now what are we going to do is to take the right arm put it behind your back and I will turn around and what we are going to do is pull are right arm to our left and pull our head to the left and get a stretch, there you go.
Now we can switch to the other side, again the clues. Well, also getting the torso up or loose. Now we can spread our feet little bit wider and shoulder width, what we will do is we will rotate to the right and we are going to take our right elbow and put upside our left neck, okay. Come on forward and get a good bend down there. What this would help you do is simulate the finish in your mechanical motion now we can rotate also to the left is also stretching the lower hamstring and getting a good relay. Come on straight up.
Another thing you can do, is I am Jay I can pull his arm up, I can pull a nail in here and I can ask him a gently pull forward, pull forward a little bit advice two metrics, I can also pull the arm down. No relax and then pull forward and get a little bit strength, I can take both hands asking to extend his arm and what I will do is when he gets a little tight he will let me know, we are working flexibility here.
No, I ask him to sit down put your right leg over your left and now you are going to hook this outside what I call it pretzel and he is going to pull his leg going to the right and he is going to pull it up all the way with his left and he is going to look behind him. Get a pretty good twist right here. Now we can switch to the other side, also concentrate on your breathing when you are doing these exercises, okay. One of my big one is --, I want you pull your feet up on here, put your feet together, pull them up on you and then we will work on the inside of the groin, grab the ankles.
Now, we are kind to push down on the inside part of that, this is the big pre season injury. A lot of guys were hurt to their groin because they do not properly stretch. You got to understand guys, when you are in high school and your season is limited to 20 games a year if you blow something here, now you ruin your chance of having a successful year because you going to miss the play about half of your season.
Now, I will stand up a little bit spread your feet wide and what we would do is we will just kind and get a little groin action here to make sure because we are going to really use our lower part of the body. Feel your body, it ought to be sending messages to your brain, see if you can see the muscle in here, stretch in no one is too tight.
Now, let us go the other way that is good. These guys should be ready to go, it is pretty warm day remember different body require longer, you may be a little old as I am, this going to take a lot longer than Jay, he is going to take me a lot longer to Timmy but it is going to take Timmy a lot longer in Jay. So murmur, you got to take care your body, warm your body up to throw, never through to warm up. If you go to practice, take it upon yourself to get there little bit early. Develop your own routine in what is going to help and what your problems spot may be so you can concentrate on that in not run the risk of hurting yourself.
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