what are the best exercises to do that will strengthn an arm for baseball to throw faster?
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push ups & squeeze ball
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With a grooved swing(short radius, etc), I'd recommend that you work on strengthening your lead hand arm strength. I have seen this work wonders when hitters that want to add more pop do concentrated isotonic training on the lead arm which for most players is their weaker arm. Have you ever tried the frisbee drill where you knock a softball sized wiffle ball off the tee using the lead hand? It's a hoot and effective!
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Simply train for strength.  Human muscle tissue contains three different fibers:  Red (endurance, low intensity), Intermediate (moderate intensity work), and White (high intensity, responsible for strength, speed, and overall size).\n\nThere's no need to do "explosive" training to become faster--such training actually WILL generate injuries from all the jerking and pulling created between the muscles and the tendon attachments.\n\nI would recommend standard weight training, doing mostly compound movements; excercises that use more than one muscle group, such as squats and bench presses.  Perform each excercise with weight that's heavy enough to reach positive muscular failure (the point where you cannot do another repitition regardless of how hard you try) within six to eight repititions.  Keep your movements absolutely under control--no jerking or swinging, unless you like your doctor and wish to visit him often!  In choosing the weight you use, make sure that you can hold the weight in place, briefly, at any point of the excercise's rang of motion.  If you can't, you didn't lift it--you threw it, using momentum to rob your muscles of work they should have been laboring against.\n\nIf you're sceptical that using slower, heavy, movements is a good way to generate both an increase in strength and speed, consider this:  Let's assume that you're about to pick up a box that you fully beleive is heavy.  You'll lift that box pretty quickly, won't you?  Also, image yourself carrying a five-gallon bucket that's full of water.  The handle breaks.  Your hand--which is still under control of an arm that was holding some weight just moments before--would jerk clean up to your shoulder before you'd be able to react to the broken bucket handle.  Strength and speed are related!  \n\nMake sure that you allow plenty of time for muscle recouperation and growth in between workouts--overtaining is very easy while training for strength, because the more intense the workout, the more a muscle is exposed to stress.  The more stress, the greater the amount of time needed to recover.\n\nFor more information, I'd recommend the excellent book by Mike Mentzer entitled, "High Intensity Training the Mike Mentzer Way," which is availible at most major bookstores.
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Endurance exercise can help improve both speed and strength. Do each of the follow for minute and march in place for a minute keeping the knees lifted inbetween each move.\n\nPretend Jump Shot - lead with the left foot first and then the next minute lead with the right\n\nShuffle back and forth three steps to each side and stay low like you are almost squatting\n\nQuick Feet - the legs wide run in place as fast as you can while staying lower in a squat-like position\n\nJump Rope\n\nLateral Leaps - pick up the right leg leap to the right and then back to the left\n\nTire Jumps - leading with the right foot step forward like you are stepping into a tire and then bring the left foot forward, right foot back and left foot back. be sure to really pick up the feet (remember up over the tire) and pick up the pace to a run and than switch the next minute so your left foot is leading
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daily stretching, light weight workout, daily runing\nlay off the junk food, get plenty of sleep, find someone to take some pitches from you. start slow 25 or so build up your endurance, work on location of pitches and variance of speed.
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DO NOT THROW EVERYDAY.  This will hurt your arm in more ways than you can imagine.\n\nDO NOT THROW CURVES.  This will also hurt your arm and will actually shorten your career.  You shouldn't start throwing any curve balls, sliders or cutters until you are in college or in a minor league system for a major league team and then, an instructor will show you how to do it.\n\nThere are plenty of instructional videos out there for kids like you.
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It really depends on how much your throwing and how often. Even with a normal baseball if you throw too much or too hard you can throw out and injure your arm. So as long as you do it in moderation you should be fine. Also if your arm begins to hurt, tell the your trainer immediately, otherwise you can seriously hurt your arm.
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When you've got this pitch under control, hitters have no idea when to swing. When it's out of control, though, even the pitcher doesn't know where the ball is going!\n \n\nSteps:\n\n1. Grip the baseball by clenching the top of the ball with the tips of your index, middle and ring fingers just below the seams. Dig the tips of your fingers deep into the ball.\n \n2. Place your thumb below the ball to give it support. Keep your pinkie off to the side.\n \n3. Go into your windup. Remember to pivot and shift your body weight from the back foot forward toward home plate.\n \n4. Throw the ball toward home, but don't snap your wrist - keep it stable, eliminating as much spin as possible.\n \n5. Follow through. Extend all fingers toward home plate as you release the pitch. Your feet should be parallel at the end of the pitch, and your throwing arm should come across the front of your body.\n \n \nTips:\nAn effective knuckleball moves in two or three different directions in flight.\n \nTry a variation on the knuckleball grip by using just the index and middle fingers on the top of the ball. The ring finger joins the pinkie off to the side.\n \nThe slower the pitch, the more time the ball has to weave toward home plate.
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Key to success in baseball is strength, speed, and flexibility.\n\nWeight training is good, but don't overdo it. As you gain muscle mass, you could lose speed and flexibility.\n\nThere are any number of good core training exercises that can develop both your strength and your flexibility.\n\nA good exercise to develop speed is a sort of suicide drill. Start at first base and run backwards toward second base. Walk back to first base and start again. Start with maybe thirty reps of this exercise and gradually increase as you improve. Also, do some running roadwork or other aerobic exercise to build endurance.\n\nYou may want to consult with your coach to develop a more specific program, and as has been said before, be sure to stretch before and after your workouts and stay hydrated.\n\nHope this helps!
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Arm velocity is different from pitch velocity. Stretching will increase the speed of motion of your arm, but won't necessarily increase pitch velocity, much of which is generated by the hips and legs. Building up lower body strength will give you more drive in your pitching motion, while forearm and wrist excercises will give you more of a snap on releasing the ball, which really aids pitch velocity. I'd rest alot too, in between throwing. You can lose as much as 5-7mph off your fastball by throwing too frequently; I'd advise at least a 2 day rest period.
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lift, stretch, flicking the wrist a little harder also will had 10-15 yards most of the time.  use ur whole body not just arm. and most of all, put every ounce of strength in ur body into it!
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Start with a good grip, fingers spread lightly across the laces, thumb and forefinger making a "U" that cradles the tail of the ball. The strength of your grip should come primarily from your thumb, middle and ring fingers. The bigger your hands (or the smaller the ball), the farther back you can grip, and the easier it will be to achieve a spiral.\n Stand with your feet directly beneath your hips, keeping your non-throwing hip facing the target. Grip the ball solidly with your throwing hand while cupping it lightly with your nonthrowing hand. As in baseball, most of a good throw's power will come from your legs and trunk, so steady your base as you focus on the target.\n\n* As you prepare to throw, begin opening your hips and trunk toward your target. Uncoil your hips first, then your torso and shoulders. As you cock the ball back behind your ear, its nose will face behind you. As your arm moves from the cocked position over-head, your forearm should cross over your elbow as your hand extends in the direction you wish to throw.\n\n* The ball's spiral depends on your release. Let go with your thumb as you throw, letting the ball rotate as the laces move off your fingertips. As your hand and wrist turn over, imparting all-important spin, you should follow through with your palm facing the ground.\n\nThe wrist-flick that imparts spin can be difficult to learn; initially, it may be easier to involve your palm in the motion, letting the ball rotate from the flat of your hand to your fingertips to get more rotation. This move will sacrifice some power, but it will be easier for you to feel how the ball should spin as it comes off the hand. Feel is what this is about. Even in a game of power - of brute violence - feel is crucial. And few things feel better than a perfect spiral, straight, tight and true.
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Stance: feet shoulder width apart. Weight mostly on back SOME on front foot. Keep your head LEVEL to ground.\n\nTiming: wait, wait, WAIT for it- \n\nSwing: pitch wrists DOWN as you swing, transfer weight forward, turn your hips, follow through with bat all the way across the plate and over your shoulder.\n\nBat speed not power drives the hit...practice in the cages before every game.
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power--you can workout your legs an stomach muscles...also, you can do exercises that will make your grip on the bat stronger (however, remember to have a relaxed grip on the bat up until you hit the ball)\n\ncontact--here are some things you might wanna' try...shortening up your swing...using a lighter bat...widening your batting stance (but don't overdo it--rule of thumb I use is, "when you swing, if you're stepping backwards, that's too wide of a stance"...choke up on the bat with 2 strikes...lastly, you can hit golf-balls with a "dead" bat that feels like a bat you would use in a real game...this can help you find out if you have a hole in your swing\n\nhand eye coordination--if you're able to get film on your swing, you can analyze how your head moves...you want to limit the up & down movement of your head because it makes the ball appear to move more...with film, you can view whether or not you're stepping into a pitch or stepping out & how you're weight is distributed throughout your swing (should always be forward)...you can also play games like ping-pong, or even try juggling
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First thing you wanna do is work on your shoulders.simple dumb-bell raises-bend arm at elbow lift straight up, another is butterfly exercise, bend at the knees usin dumb-bells, like a butterfly -bring your arms out like your flying, bending your arm. Push ups are good also, working out your triceps. Another good exercise is find a couch, chair, your bed.use the edge of it like your sitting, but move so your hands are behind you on the bed and go up an up raising yourself, that works your triceps. Another good exercise for your wrists use get a string a put a 5lb weight on it, and extend your hands, and rolling up the string using your wrists, then unroll, and repeat. These are some good ones. What will really help is long tossing, build up your arm strenggh. Good luck
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push ups, bench press, any exercise with your arms is good
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1.   Hide the ball in your glove.  \n  \n2.   Grip the ball with your middle and index fingers perpendicular to the seams at their widest point, with your thumb underneath the ball.  \n  \n3.   Spread your top fingers apart slightly and keep your ring finger and pinkie tucked into your palm. (Image 1)  \n  \n4.   Hold the ball firmly, applying pressure with your middle finger and thumb. Try not to let the ball rest in the palm of your hand, and keep your index finger relaxed. (Image 2)  \n  \n5.   Wind up into the pitch. Use the same pitching motion as in your other pitches so that the batter cannot predict a curveball. (Image 3)  \n  \n6.   Keep your wrist relaxed. After drawing back the pitch, hold your wrist so that the back of your hand points toward your body. (Image 4)  \n  \n7.   Roll your wrist downward and to the right (if you are right-handed) or to the left (if you're left-handed) immediately before releasing the pitch. (Image 5)  \n  \n8.   Release the pitch and follow through by bending your wrist. A right-hander should finish with the palm facing in toward the chest. The top of your thumb should be facing up.  \n  \n9.   Throw the ball between the batter and home plate if you're a left-handed pitcher facing a left-handed batter or if you're a right-handed pitcher facing a right-handed batter.