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Why Does My Arm Hurt?May 11, 2009 on 8:02 pm | In Muscle Building Articles, Strength Training | 3 CommentsBaseball season is well under way, and may athletes are starting to feel that mid season arm pain. Why? Well it is often caused by the repetitive throwing motion, which isn’t the big secret.
Check out the torque on the arm above, yikes! Here’s how you fix it – work the opposite muscles. Wow, that seemed simple, but not enough people do it! Here is an easy exercise to do with that homemade tornado ball I showed you guys a few days ago. This works great for all throwing athletes, baseball players and quarterbacks included. Throwing Athletes + DIY Tornado Ball That’s step one. Step two, you have to restore your arm and throwing muscles. Add in some rice digs and shoulder self myofascial release (SMR VIDEO HERE).
For those that are unfamiliar with rice rigs, they are as simple as they sound. Get a bucket of rice, dig your hands right into it, squeeze, rotate, and move them around for time and sets. One note, be careful not to overstretch your arm, it will be loose enough already!
How’s that arm feeling? - Joe Hashey, CSCS - 3 Comments »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI Leave a comment |
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Joe,
I am always curious about training athletes who are pitchers or quaterbacks. I’ve heard a lot about changing their strength training programs so as to not beat up their shoulders. For example, limiting their bench pressing and taking about any over head pressing. What is your experience with this and do you make any big changes in your program between a running back or lineman and a quaterback for example. Thanks for your time!
Josh
Comment by Josh — May 12, 2009 #
Josh,
Good questions, and I have seen what you talk about. There are differences between how I train a college lineman vs a college running back, however most high school and 8th grade athletes I will train the same. You never know what they will become athletically, positionally, etc.
I DO NOT believe in treating baseball players or qbs like they are made of glass (not that you are implying that, but just a general statement). If anything, these athletes NEED to work in complete ranges of motions, including OH presses (as long as there is no shoulder damage previously), benching, hindu push-ups, mace swings, etc, etc.
If those exercises damaged the shoulders, I would not do them for anyone. I do have my athletes tuck their elbows, as opposed to flairing them during a lot of lifts (bench, pushups) to avoid any additional stress.
Man I’m long winded today. I’ll do a post about this in a week or so, then I can elaborate further. Thanks for the comments.
In the meantime, check out how Citadel baseball trains (league champs many times over) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJTPNkFBsk
Ill add that in the “Hot Videos” in the side bar as well. Thanks for the questions!
Joe
Comment by Admin: Joe Hashey, CSCS — May 12, 2009 #
Thanks for the response Joe, much appreciated.
Josh
Comment by Josh — May 13, 2009 #