Baseball Opps with TopV

In the Baseball Opps podcast, I interview the CEO of Crossover Symmetry & ArmCare.com Duggan Moran on how he got started and his mission to improve the health of baseball.

In this episode, Dr. Ryan Crotin goes over the foundation of Arm Care and why ArmCare.com is helping to educate and monitor arm health.

In this episode, you will learn some of the key FACTS showing why the conventional wisdom in baseball has a poor understanding of using the Olympic Lifts for performance enhancement in the skills of pitching, throwing, and hitting.

Join SportsForce CEO & Founder Andrew Beinbrink for our 1st Player Development Series with some of the top pitching coaches in the world:

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Key Topics Covered:

• At-Home Training Advice

In this episode, Manual Therapist Shawn Kitzman and I talk about the importance of developing the feet as the foundation of movement. Shawn helps athletes stay healthy, recover from injuries and improve performance. He started his practice in ’00 and has worked with amateur, collegiate and professional athletes. To learn more about Shawn visit his website http://www.shawnkitzman.com/

In this episode, I interview Andrew Beinbrink ex-MiLB player and CEO of Sports Force. We talk about the challenges of College recruiting and the secrets to having success in nailing the perfect college opportunity. This is a must-listen for players or parents who are going through or planning to go through the recruiting process. 

In this episode, I interview the Legendary BioMechanist Dr. Glenn Fleisig on the evolution or revolutionary of biomechanics in baseball. Dr. Glenn Fleisig is the Research Director at the American Sports Medicine Institute. We talk about proper pitching mechanics, mechanics that can cause injury, weighted baseball training, long toss training, will we see anyone throwing harder than 105mph and how to become a BioMechanist in baseball. This is an epic podcast that I hope every player, parent, and coach will listen too.

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In this episode, I interview a Medical Doctor Ryan Hess on the best advice for pitchers to survive the rigors of baseball. We talk about how to find good advice in your career, the future of player development in baseball, extreme throwing programs, weight training for pitchers, anti-inflammatories and much more great advice. Highly recommend for young pitchers, coaches and parents.

In this episode, I interview Spike Richards on training elite baseball players. We talk programming, weighted baseball training and more. Spike Richards currently is the head strength and conditioning coach at South Central Sports Medicine and Sports Performance. Below is more of his accomplishments.

• 2015 Silver Medalist Masters Nationals 40-44 age group 85k Class

In this episode, I interview my mentor and strength coach who saved and helped me build my professional baseball career post rotator cuff surgery, Kurt Hester. Kurt Hester is the head strength and conditioning coach at Louisiana Tech and helped build the legacy of LSU baseball from the 1990s. He talks about his new book coming out and his latest invention to protect baseball players arms. We get into the truth about the poor education of player development and what needs to change to protect athletes from poor coaches.