Phil and Kostis Tweet Re: Over/Under Speed Training

[Vinsk]

I’m sorry this should just be a post in the instruction/Playing tips or Speed training thread. But wanted to hear from all of you with knowledge on this subject.

[iacas]

What Phil said is accurate.

Your body does not want to injure itself.

[saevel25]

I never thought of it that way. I just tend to exercise full body, and try to achieve balance between my left side (weaker) versus right side (stronger). Yea, that makes sense. 

[Wanzo]

Here's an interesting thread from Mike Carroll on the topic.  He is pretty knowledgeable and has reservations about the opposite swings doing much to help in speed training and he recommends quite a few less reps than the super speed protocols.  For me personally, I've "tweaked" some things trying the left handed swings so I typically avoid them now so I don't risk injury.  

 

 

[The Flush]

Some baseball pitchers work on strengthening their deceleration muscles in order to throw harder. They do it with weight training more than whatever the opposite of throwing a ball is. However there are some drills with weighted balls where they throw the ball back over their shoulder. See Driveline Baseball for a lot on that.

[iacas]

 

His second point speaks to what I said above (in the opposite direction):

10 hours ago, iacas said:

Your body does not want to injure itself.

So Phil may not be accurate after all. 😄