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Ryan Faer

Arizona Performance Coordinator for
Cleveland Indians Baseball

THE HIGHLIGHTS:

- There simply are not enough strength and conditioning professionals at the high school level. 

- A movement of integrating strength coaches into high schools is going to take a paradigm shift at the administrative level.

- Injury prevention is first and foremost the primary goal of the strength and conditioning professional. Weight room safety is major component that precedes any programming considerations for injury.

Introduction 

To appreciate my passion for improving high school athletics, you first need to understand where I started my coaching career.

My strength and conditioning career started differently than most others I've had the fortune of meeting and networking with in this profession.

As a high school sophomore I became fascinated with the preparation it took to perform at a high level in my sport—baseball. When I turned 16-years-old and could drive for the first time, I got a gym membership, joined a pitching academy, and drove myself to both nearly every day after school or practice.

I had no idea what I was doing.

Regardless, I was enthralled by the empowerment strength training gave me. I learned that I had more control over my abilities, and subsequently my career, than I ever could have imagined. Through trial and error I found out a lot of other things as well, like time management (I originally struggled with my IB/AP classes when I threw an extra hour or two of training into my daily routine), discipline, and attention to detail.

Upon graduating from high school I immediately began coaching baseball at my alma mater, first running warm-ups, and then designing my own training programs with nothing more than a personal training certification. Like my own training during high school, I had no idea what I was doing?—?at first.......Join StrengthCoach.com today to read this and thousands of learning resources.....

StrengthCoach-5 Reasons Why All Pitchers Should Sprint

Zach Dechant 

I believe strongly in the benefits of speed training for all athletes, including pitchers. Proper speed training helps improve the stretch reflex, enhances coordination, aids in increasing all around hip motion, develops reactivity, and complements strength and power development. It falls directly in line with our overall philosophy of training pitchers to be fast, powerful, and explosive. "Train fast to be fast" is how I approach speed work. It plays a large significance in the overall development of all athletes and can especially benefit pitchers for several reasons that I feel are extremely significant.

1. Neuromuscular System

The central nervous system is the driver of all movement, especially those requiring speed, power, and explosiveness.  Throwing a baseball is a single explosive event based around creating power with long rests between throws. Pitching is nothing more than individual CNS intensive repeat efforts. We want to develop the nervous system to the highest level possible with every training mean available. Training for speed results in intermuscular and intramuscular coordination, rate coding, and in the end developing a more efficient neuromuscular system.  A bigger motor creates higher outputs in power, strength, reactivity, explosiveness etc. Build the motor as big as possible with the best training means available. I know no better method for developing the nervous system than sprint training.

2. Chicken or the Egg

Strength and speed development often go hand in hand.  Get a kid stronger and they get faster.  But does strength training build speed only or can speed training actually build strength? We know in lower level as well as many intermediate level athletes developing strength carries over into faster running speeds. The late Charlie Francis was a huge advocate of speed actually enhancing strength. He often referred to the crossover effect of strength training. Every muscle that is strengthened leads to every other muscle strengthening. All strength work leads to a crossover effect in the human body. This is actually the CNS in play again here. Just as strength work allows for more power on the track, more power on the track allows for larger gains in the weight room. They feed on each other. Again, being that the CNS is the driver of both, higher outputs in one assists the other.  The end result of developing the nervous system means higher outputs on the field of play no matter what the sport. 

3. Force-Velocity Curve

The force-velocity curve shows the inverse relationship that force and velocity have. When force is high as in maximal strength work, velocity is low. When velocity is highest force is low. Training on each end of the spectrum assists in raising the entire line along the curve and benefiting all strengths. We can get the most bang for our buck by training at high speeds, as well as using heavy strength movements.

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