Tyler Anzmann Performance

The hinge is essentially the loading of the hip musculature as the COM shift occurs.

The questions we want to answer when considering the hinge are:
How well can we wind tension, leverage the linear move, and still stay in a position to be able to block and send energy up the chain?

This can go wrong in a variety of ways.

✅Losing the stack of the torso
✅Staying too linear
✅Tipping or false pelvis

We’re trying to load the large musculature around the hip winding tension.

Here are a few ways we work on this:
✅Hinge on slider
✅Band feed the mistake w/ coil
✅Band assisted throws-bands or core velocity belt

Begin slow so you can feel it. Start as a feel drill prior to throws. The final band assisted version can eventually be used during a throw once you have established the pattern and feel.
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All-Concentric Training and Throwing Velocity

Within some training phases depending on the needs of an athlete we may utilize all-concentric movements (eliminating the countermove) in both classic strength movements and ballistic movements.

These movements have a few important effects:

✅Increased rate coding

✅Improved motor unit recruitment

✅Improved RFD

Throwing is time sensitive, especially in the upper body: cocking to ball release is under 180ms, so the ability to produce force quickly is critical.

Movement selection can be more or less “specific” depending on athlete needs, with fly variations, pullover, and ballistic pullover variations being other great options.
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Whether you view throwing through a performance or health-based lens there are a few qualities that overlap to drive these processes.

✅Access and strength through deep ROM

Performance lens: From a throwing velocity perspective if you’re able to apply force to the ball over a larger arc of motion we can increase the impulse (wider FT curve), and thus throwing velocity.

Health lens: If you’re going to use it on the field, make sure you’ve improved your ability to tolerate it in training. The dose makes the poison-vaccinate yourself against the competition.

✅Stiffness: Simply, this is the ability to resist deformation.

Performance lens: In order to maximize RFD stiffness is critical. But, walking the tight rope between stiffness and compliance is critical as they both hold keys at various points during a complex movement.

Health lens: Removing slack, cocontractions, and joint or systemic stiffness aren’t just performance enhancers, they allow the body to resist movement that’s potentially injurious. Think about the ability to rapidly catch yourself when you stumble, maintaining a torso stack during a jump, etc.

Training and rehab have been separated for too long. Good rehab looks more like training than most think, and good training should serve some of the same purposes as rehab.
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