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Hi everyone, my name is Matt Aquilina with Nexus Baseball and this is Shredded Baseball, where I quickly cover your questions about strength and conditioning training for baseball.

Earlier this week I covered the force behind the baseball pitch and what creates home run power in the baseball swing. Both bring up the question – how strong do you need to be to throw a high velocity fastball?

The answer is you primarily need sport specific strength, which we know from this series is strength in the muscles that contribute most directly to the baseball pitch, as opposed to general strength. The goal with sport specific strength is to create as much or more strength than is required to create the acceleration necessary to hit high velocity. Overall, this strength level is rather modest as the weight of the baseball is so low. At just over 5 ounces in weight, the baseball as a weight is the lowest weight you will ever use for training. A modest 10 lb dumbbell weighs more than 30 baseballs. Therefore, I have always found many baseball training methodologies interesting as they are training to accelerate such a light object by lighting hundreds of times its weight very slowly.

As we have discussed, general strength is a key component of stability and balance for the body and for gross motor movements such as the stride. However, the actual acceleration is dependent on mechanics, lever lengths, and the ability of the muscles to create acceleration. The first and third of those are controllable the with the goal for pitchers to focus on their mechanics and work their sport specific muscles with speed and lower weights.

I will be covering a lot of material on the specifics of the sport specific muscles to be trained in this series. Sport specific strength is a fundamental element of all the Nexus programs and if you want to look ahead or get training links to the programs are available in the video description.

In the next Shredded Baseball video, I will be look at if you should try to gain weight as a pitcher.

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