How To Throw Harder | Tips with Trev Ep 22 w/ Trevor Bauer

today's topic is how to throw harder and this is tips with Trev the show where I give developing baseball players some easy tips to end their slumps faster and become a superstar sooner so let's get into it [Music] [Music] all right so when you hear about throwing harder you hear a lot of different tips you hear bend your back use your legs fast arm build arm strength you know long toss you know get really strong no no mass doesn't matter it's all about movement Oh movement doesn't matter it's all about strength and how elastic you are and your genetics and all this different stuff so we're gonna talk about most of that maybe not all of it but I was talking about all of it here's the truth uh throwing harder probably involves all of that stuff or some of it the majority of it for most people so you could be someone that has really good genetics and then you probably are just going to throw hard pretty much whatever but you also probably could throw harder than you do if you're not someone with good genetics then a lot more of those things are probably gonna matter so let's just let's just start at the beginning all right I got a list right here on my phone we're gonna start at the beginning we got mass okay so how would mass help you throw harder well is is a good mass or bad mass you know is it muscle or is it fat is it you know maybe your skeletally you weigh more and you just weigh more in general than another person so I'm gonna approach all this from a physics standpoint I know some of you aren't gonna understand physics that's okay but I understand physics and that's how I'm going to present this information so if you are more massive meaning you weigh more you have you're bigger it could be any mass when you are dropping with gravity or when you're moving forward you're creating more force because you have more momentum momentum is mass times velocity and so there's more energy in the system so there's more there's a higher pool of energy that you could potentially transfer to the baseball meaning that you have potential to throw harder and that's just by being more massive so if you keep everything equal and you say I'm 200 pounds right now and I'm throwing let's say 90 and I've become 220 pounds and nothing else changes you know I still move the exact same all that you'll throw harder because you have more potential energy to actually transfer the baseball so what kind of mass matters well we're gonna get into that a little bit but mass in general does matter that's why you can see someone like one of the best examples with CC Sabathia when he lost a bunch of weight he threw a lot slower and he said I just don't feel like my fastball is there because I'm lighter and and all that this happens to a lot of players they are overweight or they're deemed to be overweight and their coaches asked them to lose weight so they go and they lose 30 or 40 pounds and they come in in great shape you know they're in good shape they look good physically but they aren't the same player because they're a lot lighter and so if you lose a lot of mass you lose a lot of energy you have to find it elsewhere you have to be able to compensate for that to maintain the same level performance so where could you gain that from well you could gain it from strength so certainly if you lose mass but you get stronger let's say you are overweight and you lose a lot of fat but in the process of losing fat you're able to replace some of that with muscle you end up less weight but you're more powerful you're stronger you can compensate for that because now you can produce more force muscularly so that's one way you can go about it you can get stronger you can get more powerful strength of power don't always equal out to be the exact same you can be strong but not good at moving fast and so that would mean that you're powerful you're not nearly as powerful so you know if you move again back to momentum and force production if you move more weight faster you're there's more total force so that's what power comes down to in the weight room as well as if you can move more weight faster you are more powerful so that's that's one way you can do it another way you can do it is elasticity you can train elastic properties of the body you can become more springy let's say this is where like plyometrics come into play you jump you can jump higher you can train yourself to jump higher how do you train yourself to jump higher well you get stronger first off so you can produce more force and then you get more elastic so you get better at absorbing force loading the tendons and then unloading the tendons the tendons in the body are basically the springs and the and the trampolines or however you want to talk about it so you can train that property you can do depth jumps and depth drops a lot of the Russian training that came out in the 70s and a long time ago it's very good about that you can you can train elastic properties you can train yourself to jump higher it's proven you so that applies to pitching as well when the front leg hits and the hips rotate you can train elastic properties in the core so that you're better at transferring that energy think of think of the body as like a spring a little spring versus maybe a car shock you know you would like to have large stiff springs that also can load really fast and unload really fast that would produce a lot of force whereas a spring that's not very stiff and takes a long time you know it may be a load fast but it just kind of slowly springs back isn't gonna be nearly as good for producing force and energy so you can become more elastic you can become more elastic in your legs in the way that the front leg lands and stabilizes and stops energy and transfers out to the hips into the core into the shoulder you can become more elastic in all those different places and so certainly becoming more elastic helps because that's how the force is multiplied as it goes up the chain and ultimately delivered to the ball someone that can move maybe 3 meters per second down the mound before footplant can throw let's say 95 miles an hour well there's compounding energy and that's one way that you do it is elasticity another one is gravity you can use gravity to your advantage to produce more force it's pretty simple if you're up here and you drop a little bit you have lost potential energy and you're gaining kinetic energy which is movement basically so if you are massive and you get very low in the delivery you sink into your back leg a lot you let your body weight drop as you move down the mound you can use gravity to produce more force so all of that is going to help you throw harder it so the ideal scenario would be that your very massive you are very strong you're very powerful so another way of saying that is you're very big with lots of muscle and very little fat and very powerful you've trained yourself to be elastic as well so big your massive your strong your powerful your elastic and then you move well so that's another way you can throw harder you can move well and this is where the debate comes in that you know strength doesn't matter mass doesn't matter it's all about movement oh no movement doesn't matter you can just brute force your way through it let's just get stronger and you'll throw harder you don't need to change your mechanics no it both matter the ideal scenario is that you're very strong and massive and elastic but that you also move very efficiently so movement in the delivery comes down to first off can you can you move that way sometimes people have structural blocks you know let's say their hips maybe corkscrew they have FAI or their shoulder capsules are hinged or they just can't get structurally bone wise they can't get into certain ranges so then you just compensate around that there's ways that you can that you can do that if you can't get as much shoulder hip separation as another guy the total degrees you probably need to be more powerful and have stiffer Springs so to speak in your core so the limited amount that you can get is very much more like a car shock than it is like a mechanical pencil spring if you've ever taken one of those apart its best example I can think of right now so there's the the actual physical ability that can you get into these ranges of motion another one is just the actual movement of it so like of the body itself can you train your body to move the correct way can you get the hips open can you delay the shoulders can you pull the glove can you time that up with the way the arm spirals like all of these things to set yourself in position I cover a lot of these different mechanical cues in different videos but movement does matter so you would want to move very efficiently you know how how deep do you get into your in your back leg and how do you open the hips up and how much energy can you transfer into footplant how well does the league let lead leg block how well does the glove arm block how well does the elbow spiral all of these things matter for throwing harder so you just really have to come down and look at where you fall in the spectrum here's a couple examples I was a hundred and sixty pounds when I went to college as a 17 year old I was five five eleven and a half or six foot at 160 pounds but I was able to throw 94 I had topped at 94 at the time two years later I was 170 pounds about six foot I didn't grow very much but I had topped at 97 miles an hour so what really changed there well I got a little bit more massive I had a little bit more energy perhaps I moved better into footplant perhaps I had better mechanics but most of that was due to movement and training the movement I didn't really change very much physically I was still very similar weight sure I probably got a little bit stronger overall I might have been able to produce more force muscularly but most of that was probably due to mechanics and just the speed the way I used gravity the way I blocked my front leg how explosive I was I certainly could have gotten more elastic that's all the training I did back then I didn't really do any weightlifting I didn't try to add any muscle or or strength I just did a lot of speed and elastic work so that helped me throw a little bit harder now as I sit here right now I'm somewhere in the 208 pound range I'm still the same height I'm a lot stronger I'm a lot more powerful I'm stronger than I am powerful I'm not very good at moving heavier weight faster it's not something I'm working on right now trying to get out some of one of the other areas that can help you throw harder trying to build that up I move extremely efficiently I've pretty much maximize the amount of velocity I'm gonna get out of my current build and my ability to move on the Mount I'm super efficient in the actual movement of my delivery but I'm not nearly as powerful as I could be I'm not nearly as strong as I could be I'm not nearly as massive as I could be I'm not nearly as elastic as I could be there's a lot of different ways to improve my velocity and those are the routes that I'm trying to go down now so to buy into a certain dogma of oh it's only movement that matters it's only strength that matters oh it's only arm strength that matters you'd say how much you throw and throwing weighted balls that's all that matters it's gonna like all of those things can't help but they're not the only thing and I think that's really the the main point of this video is to give you a wide range of things that can help you throw harder and a little bit about how they may help you throw harder that physically physics wise how they may manifest manifest themselves so that it gets you to think a little bit more about where are you you know what what ends of the spectrum are you on on all those different things do you move really well on the mound but you're just not very big so getting stronger and more powerful could help great then you should focus on the weight room and doing that maybe you're very strong but you just don't move very well on the mound and so you need to get your hips open more into it in the foot plant or you know your arm doesn't spiral very much you tighten up your arm action or whatever the case is well you probably should spend most of your time working on the movement you know perhaps you move very well and you're strong it's just you're not very elastic so it's it's kind of sluggish and slow and you don't get that transfer of energy nearly as much as someone else might okay well then maybe you need to jump into plyometrics or you need to jump into something else to kind of stiffen up those Springs so to speak so that's the point of this video you got a lot of different ways you can throw harder you can get more massive stronger more powerful more elastic you can use gravity better you can move better your intent can go up you're throwing Fitness and and whatever else can go up there's a lot of different ways to do it but be honest with yourself evaluate where you are what you are good at and what you aren't good at and then spend most of your time working on the stuff that you aren't good at to get better at that you'll get a lot more rapid improvement that way than trying to get the last let's say five or 2% of something that you're already really good at when the other things are maybe you're only 50% of the way there so that's it for today that's the episode how to throw harder lots of different things to think about hopefully hopefully you learned something I appreciate all my fans out there that watch on a consistent basis really enjoy interacting with you guys and girls and not so much internet trolls been getting trolled a lot recently about all the MLB negotiations so all you people telling me that I'm greedy and whatever else I don't sit here in this chair give you guys free content because I'm greedy I want to move the game forward I want to be out there playing as much as you want me out there playing so that's all for today regardless of what you do on the internet or what you think about me hope you have a good day hope you are staying safe during this pandemic and all the different stuff that's going on in the world right now so be safe be healthy hopefully Seattle baseball stadium soon I'm out

Channel: Trevor Bauer

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Keywords: baseball, MLB, milb, major, league, leagues, major league, major leagues, trevor, bauer, trevor bauer, momentum, stike, strikeout, ball, bat, watch, documentary, story, movie, video, pitching, mechanics, hitting, cleveland, indians, cincinnati, cincinnati reds, reds, manfred, rob, rob manfred, commissioner

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Length: 15min 36sec (936 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 09 2020