Is it possible for me to work out my pitching arm indoors instead of outdoors?

Question

I made the JV team last year but had to miss out on most of the season because of my seperated shoulder.

Now i'm back with my high school JV team and was just wondering if anyone knows what i can to indoors (my house) that would help me arm strength out when im pitching.

Though the season doesn't start untill March, the earliar i get my shoulder/arm pumped, the more prepared i will be.

Also it's cold in Minnesota right now so thats why i'm asking for indoor workouts instead of outdoors.

Any Idea/Tip/Info? Any would be great.

-Arigatou

Answer 1

I used to go to my local community college or even high school gym (after winter sports teams left) and toss a ball against the gym wall. (I used a rubber Incrediball so the jainitorial staff wouldnt want to kill me). Dont forget to do some arm strengthening crap too, and makes sure you have full range of motion before you let one rip, I'd hate for you to miss out on another season.

Answer 2

Paul Quantrill did that for years. That did include building an indoor mound, but it wasn't in a house.

Talk with your coach about the possibility if working out your arm in the school gym. And don't forget that the way to strengthen your arm is to throw every day (per Leo Mazzone), and particularly to throw long toss.

BTW, do you remember (you could look it up) Roger Clemens have some serious arm problems early in his professional career? Gustafson was his coach. In fact, a large number of pitchers who came out of that program did have serious arm problems early in their careers, if they even had careers because of their arm problems.

Answer 3

I played softball when I was younger and I had previously dislocated my shoulder in Junior High, so I know how fun that is. My coach used to tell us to tip over a laundry basket and throw socks into it while gradually moving further away from it. You'd probably want a whole bunch of socks so you don't have to keep walking to the basket.
good luck!

Answer 4

Well I play catcher but some of my friends that are pitcher go into their basements. Lay a mattress up against a wall and throw a tee ball at it. I know it sounds weird but they say it works. hope this helped.

Answer 5

Im assuming you want velocity back or increased velocity. yu can do all the arm exersizes you want to strengthen your arm, and you can do them indoors, flexibility work, sum weight work with both arms (but not too much, thats how you get torn biceps and ligaments, if the muscles get too big in the arm, so easy on the weights)... but if you do want velocity, arm speed , or increased armspeed, That is created by the lunge off the mound. Your mechanics you should already know seeing as you are a pitcher, but if you want to get your arm/hand speed back, work on you lunge/jump forward off the pitchers mound. The A to B to C exersize. " A...Set yer weight against back leg, arm down and dangling. B...raise leg and begin motion forward towards target raising arm to shoulder, keeping arm vertical to back leg. C...All momentum and stored energy forward WITH arm to plate with front leg in lunge/giant step, ideally finishing square to target." Thats how you create arm speed, by mastering that, and that you can do indoors. If you have to practice off a flat surface and you just had surgery, i wouldnt go full out with your lunge. If you can work indoors off an elevated moundlike surface, then i would work up to it but then yes, cut loose full bore. But the arm speed equals velocity, and armspeed comes from yer whind-up and delivery.. "A B C mechanics", and that you CAN work on indoors. So the exersize everyday.

And to Reva P below...

That BS about Gustafson has floated for years, but its not the program that bothered the Texas pitchers once they reached pro ball, It was the Overuse. Gustafson even admits to that, he used his pitchers ALOT.. for everything.. this was before the Specialization came into play, so Shane Reynolds, Roger lemens and pretty much any other pitcher at Texas during Gustafsons near 3 deades as a coah, was used ALL THE TIME. Clemens was ready for the Majors as fast as he was BECAUSE he pitched so much in college, but he said that because he pitched so much in college, he began to have recovery issues with his arm in the majors till he started his insane workout regimen. Gustafson had more starting pitchers drafted by MLB in his 3 decades as a head coach than any other NCAA coach in the country, and All his former players look at him like a god. He was gulty of over using his guys.. but what he taught them is the reason so many of them were drafted .... And also, its not strength that crates velocity, its arm speed,,, you can "you can make your arm as strong as a high tension cable, but with no arm and wrist speed, your ball will have zero zip to it".... Long tossing is good for strengthening the arm, but if you want velocity, your legs and back are where that comes from, because they power your deliver and release... You mentioned Clemens,,, ever wonder why his legs are the size of tree trunks genius. yer drive forward and off the mound is where your power will come from. i thought everyone knew that. As for Leo Mazzoni, 3 words explains him.. Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz.

Answer 6

Do a search on "sports academy". Lots of businesses and workout facilities do that. My son does baseball batting and pitching at a facility in our town.

Answer 7

perhaps with an elastic chord or something similar attached to an anchored or mounted object... from which you can simulate a windup with some amount of resistance

Answer 8

there are indoor pitching sites so check that out and get in shape

Answer 9

it is posible to work on your pitching indors in sted of outside i do i practice that with my dad.

Answer 10

buy a nintendo wii and play baseball on it

no joke