Blog Article Off-Season Speed Training for Position Players – Part 2: Acceleration March 25, 2025March 26, 2025 Part 2 – Off-Season Speed Training for Position Players: Day 1 – Acceleration Welcome to the second installment of our ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article Can the starting pitcher be revived? March 17, 2025March 25, 2025 The Pitching Paradox It was once commonplace in Major League Baseball for a starting pitcher to go seven innings and ...read more 4 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article New PULSE Upgrades Are Here March 14, 2025March 14, 2025 Five years ago, we acquired Motus Global and rebranded to PULSE. In those five years, we have been hard at ...read more 4 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article The Limits of Motion Capture: Understanding Arm Pain March 12, 2025March 12, 2025 Introduction Pitchers all over the world experience arm pain. As a pitching trainer, I’m often asked, “I have pain at X ...read more 6 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Research, Strength Training How to Pitch Faster: Using Rotational Lateral Bounds to Improve Pelvic Loading February 2, 2015March 22, 2023 The lateral bound, also called the lateral skater jump or lateral heiden (named after former Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden) ...read more 0 Likes | 5 Comments
Blog Article, Miscellaneous / Historical, Strength Training Velocity Training: Perfecting the Overhead Medball Throw December 10, 2014June 10, 2022 Plyometric training is a key component to developing explosive power that can be applied to the throwing motion. This revelation ...read more 0 Likes | 4 Comments
Strength Training Demonizing Early Specialization – Flawed Research Interpretation November 18, 2014April 5, 2021 A generally-accepted tenet of youth sports training is to avoid early specialization – meaning that kids should have more unstructured play ...read more 0 Likes | 5 Comments
Blog Article Summer 2014 Training Period – News and Notes May 29, 2014May 17, 2022 The high school season is nearly complete, with Driveline athletes still looking to dominate at 2A (Elijah Hill – Tumwater ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Pitching Mechanics Joel Zumaya’s Tommy John: His Pitching Mechanics’ Fault? February 27, 2012April 5, 2021 What causes Tommy John surgery? Why did a certain pitcher get hurt–and another did not? The answers are often extremely ...read more 0 Likes | 3 Comments
Pitching Mechanics Pitching Mechanics Myths: Chin to Target, Release Ball Closer to the Plate January 31, 2012April 5, 2021 While I’m working on my book – Hacking The Kinetic Chain – there are a few blog posts I feel like ...read more 2 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article Book Review: Never Let Go (Dan John) April 19, 2011 I recently just finished up Dan John’s excellent book, Never Let Go. Never Let Go is a collection of articles ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Miscellaneous / Historical, Strength Training, Velocity Training Managing Volume and Intensity in Off-Season Workouts November 16, 2010June 13, 2022 A question I get fairly often involves managing the volume and intensity of off-season workouts. At our facility, we’re just ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article, Strength Training The Difference Between "Working Out" and Training September 14, 2010June 10, 2022 Athletes at Driveline Baseball don’t “work out.” Working out is something the casual gym goer does when he struts into ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments
Blog Article Soliciting Feedback from You! September 2, 2010 As my various partnerships and deals with facilities get wrapped up (I wish I could talk more about this, but ...read more 0 Likes | 0 Comments