Baseball Cleaching Research Paper

For my microcycle project I was given the sport position of a baseball pitcher. Baseball pitching is an extremely explosive and sometimes an unnatural movement. The main parts of being a good pitcher is to have velocity, position, and movement. In order for there to be a successful pitch, Chris Blake of the New England Musculoskeletal Institute at the UConn Health Center says that there are 6 phases the body must go through. Phase 1 is the wind-up. This is where your knee comes up and stores potential energy. Phase 2 is the stride. This is where you reach the foot forward and make contact with the ground to change the potential energy into mechanical energy. Phase 3 is the cocking of the arm to reach maximum external rotation of the shoulder. This is done to reach maximum power and the foot that was planted in phase 2 begins action of the kinetic chain. Phase 4 is the arm acceleration. This connects the whole chain from foot plant, to trunk rotation, to shoulder rotation, to elbow translation, and finally to wrist translation. Phase 5 is the arm deceleration. This is where the pitching muscles begin to …show more content…
When you are a pitcher you are usually pitching more maybe 3 seconds at a time. For those 3 seconds you are very explosive. According to the book, The Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning Fourth Edition, this resembles the need for anaerobic power training. Because pitchers are off and on for a sufficient amount of time, they need to also build up their anaerobic base so they can have a larger anaerobic capacity. This enables them to recover from their explosive movements faster and more efficiently. Because of the need for anaerobic power, the energy system that is used is the ATP-PC system. This system uses adenosine triphosphate, and phosphocreatine. The energy system provides direct energy through the breakdown of stored, high energy