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Balance Pad, Oval Balance Pad, and Balance Pod
I wanted to take the opportunity in this post to bring to your attention a newly added section on the Oates Specialties home page. The new tab located on the...
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Drills for Mobility of the Shoulder and Stability of the Elbow
I want to end my series of articles regarding stability and mobility by talking about the last link of the kinetic chain for a pitcher (or any throwing athlete). This...
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Drills for Stability and Mobility of the Spine and Scapula
This week I wanted to discuss a number of drills which are helpful in improving the mobility and stability of an athlete’s spine and back. As I have mentioned before,...
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Drills for Stability and Mobility of the Lower Half
In my last blog I discussed the stability/mobility kinetic chain that exists within an athlete’s body. As I mentioned before, the joints in a body alternate between being inherently in...
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Stability and Mobility
Over the course of the last few years I have become more and more attuned to the importance of both stability and mobility in athletes. Being a former pitcher, I...
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Teaching Pronation
My last blog was on the subject of pronation and how it is the body’s natural way to slow down the arm after a throw as well as its way...
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Pronation: The key to a healthy arm
Last weekend I traveled to Montgomery, Texas to attend an Elite Pitchers Bootcamp at the Texas Baseball Ranch. I had not been to the Ranch in a number of months...
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Underload Training
Now that many of you have read my article about overload training I want to focus this week on the concept of underload training. While overload training has to do...
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Overload Training
My last article focused on weighted balls and the benefits in which they can have for a throwing athlete. Since weighted balls are a type of overload training I thought...
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Increase Velocity with Weighted Balls
There always seems to be a whirlwind which accompanies the subject of throwing weighted balls. People are often divided in terms of how they feel about using them. Many coaches...
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Visit to Hanover High School in VA
Last week I had the opportunity to travel to Mechanicsville, VA, a suburb of Richmond, to visit with Coach Hunter Hoy at Hanover High School. Since Hanover High School opened...
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The Need for an Off-Season
As I find myself in the middle of the summer I think back to the many baseball games I played throughout past summers. Whether it was Little League All-Stars, select...
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