“Contact me if your arm hurts!” – Coach Skip Fast, 25+ Years Coach Pitchers.
Pitchers as young as 8 need to look at their proprioceptive activity.
Proprioception is your body’s ability to sense its position and movement in space. It’s often referred to as the “sixth sense” and, because pitching is a balanced exercise, is essential for pitching.
Proprioception in the human body
Proprioceptors are sensory receptors in your muscles, tendons, ligaments, and joints. They constantly send information to your brain about your position, movement, and the force being applied.
Your brain constantly interprets this information to understand where your body is in space, how it’s moving, and how to coordinate your movements.
Proprioception is essentially an automatic process. For example, you don’t have to think about where your arm is when you reach for a glass of water. Your body just knows.
Proprioception helps you maintain balance and coordinate your movements, preventing falls and injuries.
Proprioception and Baseball
Proprioception allows you to play better baseball.
Without looking, it gives you a sense of your body’s position and how it’s moving.
If your proprioception is impaired, you have trouble coordinating movements the way you want, balance problems, and spatial awareness issues.
The proprioceptive relationship between head movement and injury risk is essential for performance and injury prevention. A stable and controlled head position helps maintain proper spinal alignment and an efficient release. Excessive or erratic head movement throws off this alignment, increasing strain on the neck, shoulder, and arm.
Working with Coach Skip, pitchers discover a proprioceptive link in which they lower their heads before moving forward, build an injury-resistant motion, and never worry about finding the target again!
In-person instruction costs $60/half-hour session, payable in Cash or Venmo.
Instruction occurs at the Pitching Wall at 65 Fairmount Drive, Sicklerville, NJ, 08081.
- The Fairmount Drive location is 3 minutes off Exit 41 on the Atlantic City Expressway.
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