I find it very difficult to segment between training and throwing programs. Biomechanically efficient movement be it in the weight room or on the field need to respect an athlete’s health history, movement limitations or excesses, stability, and strength. If you are missing any of those pieces you are asking to limit results and potentially injure an athlete.

Trenton Kemp is a great example of what can be accomplished when you understand an athlete’s complete movement/performance/stability/strength picture. Hell, we even did a full Chinese Medicine intake and multiple acupuncture treatments to optimize balance in his neurological system that feeds movement.

The before and after videos here are pretty dramatic in terms of efficiency, which is all I care about. Become efficient than strong and good things happen.

I rarely share an athlete’s program as many will see it and say, “Oh ya I’m going to steal this program and do what a pro athlete is doing”. When in reality, this program was written specifically to address one person’s needs. However, I want to highlight a few things with visual evidence of his program. Look at how much volume we hammer the throwing flaw in his training program, not just his throwing program.

His lower body hitch in his mechanics is primarily coming from the trail knee drive. To fix this, I use exercises that create leg separation, hip separation, or fight hip flexion IN EVERY MOVEMENT during this training session.

Every exercise listed including his extended warm-up of get-ups and bear crawls to chin-ups, push-up reaches, walking lunges, side plank, sled push, and sit-ups all feed into fixing his mechanical flaws. Some may say it’s overkill, but the proof is in the pudding.

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