Throwing Specific Strength and Conditioning

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Throwing Specific Strength and Conditioning

• Compiled by Matt Gieringer MS, CSCS and Eric
  McElroy DPT, CSCS

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Throwing Specific Strength Conditioning

• Multi-Disciplinary approach
• Athletic Performance Rehabilitation
• Greater Rotational Power
• More Durable Athlete

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Prehabilitation I

• PREHAB I
• Post-Injury
• Transitional rehab plan
• What was cause of injury?
• Overuse
• Traumatic
• What is physical status?
• Successful D/C from rehab
• Hitting all goals
• Healing success/MD discharge
• HEP compliance

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Assessment

• Primary vs. Secondary effects
• What has the athlete been doing? (globally)
• Cause vs. effect (chicken or the egg)
• Assess for global biomechanical deficits (ie
  hips, t-spine, etc)
• Strength, mobility, stability globally.
• Proprioceptive status globally.
• Post rehabilitation throwing mechanics.

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Transitioning from Rehabilitation to Athletic
Performance

• 2-3 week focus prior to initiation of strength
  and conditioning.
• Address Problem areasDysfunction, looking for
  global problem areas
• Mobility, flexibility, NMR control
• Thoracic spine, hips, foot and ankle.
• Regaining Global Linear Multi-Planar MVMTs
• Stressing Involved Region in ALL 3 Planes _at_
  controlled Extreme

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Strength Conditioning for Throwing Athletes
Considerations for Defining Effective Strength
and Conditioning

• Movement Based? Throwing Specific Movements?
  Decides Priority of Muscles to be Trained
• Normally Functioning Human
• Well Functioning Athlete
• Excellent Throwing Athlete
• Loading and Exploding (Rotational Acceleration/
  Deceleration/ Re-acceleration)

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Considerations for Defining Effective Strength
and Conditioning

• Energy System Demands
• Conditioning Specifically for Baseball in
  different phases of training
• Phosphagen System
• Aerobic System

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Considerations for Defining Effective Strength
and Conditioning

• Training Age and Phase (season)
• Actual Age of Athlete
• How many months, years, and off-seasons has the
  athlete trained/ played baseball?
• Competitive Level
• Injuries?
• Other developmental issues

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Lower Extremities

• The Power House of Throwing

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Plyometrics

• Stretch Shortening Cycle
• Coordinates NM Firing

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Trunk (Core Du Jour)

• Transmission of the human body.

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Upper Extremities

• Gleno-Humeral and the Scapulo-Thoracic Joints.

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Prehabilitation II

• PREHAB II
• Making the Healthy Throwing Athlete More
  Durable!!!

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Prehabilitation IIMaking the Healthy Throwing
Athlete More Durable

• Integrated with Strength Program
• Addressing all 3 planes of motion of all moveable
  parts (sagittal, frontal, transverse)
• Focus on weakness.
• Strength, mobility, and stability.
• PNF (proprioception)
• Multiple parts moving at one time (t-spine mob.,
  lunge matrix)
• Functional, Functional, Functional
• We prepare the athlete for the demands of sport
• Promote stability with movement vs. isolation
• Time for optimal return to competition.

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Demonstrations

• Come to the demonstrations to see the ACTION!