248: Throwing the ball around (with Zach Dechant)

Baseball and the throwing events have a lot in common: in both sports you are trying to generate rotational power to move an implement fast. When it comes to training, there a lot of parallels as well. Zach Dechant is the strength coach for one of the top collegiate baseball programs. He joins this week's podcast to discuss how he focuses on specific strength in training, including player profiling, exercise design, and many aspects of medicine ball training. For more information on this topic, read the complete show notes at: http://www.hmmrmedia.com/2021/05/hmmr-podcast-episode-248-throwing-the-ball-around-with-zach-dechant/ » Support the show: join HMMR PLUS to get full access to our coaching resources. More notes: This episode is brought to you by HMMR Plus. The May site theme on HMMR Media is medicine ball training. Stay tuned for more on the topic and become a member for full access to our videos, articles, and podcast archives. You can learn more about Dechant on Instagram (@zachdechant) or Twitter (@zachdechant). We can recommend a few of his instagram posts for more information about some of the topics we covered in this episode, such as: heaves for height, pitching SDEs, rotational variations, reasons for med ball throws, and why med balls are not part of the foundational program. You can find links to his blog articles and products up on his website ZachDechant.com. For more on medicine ball training, we shared Nick Garcia's medicine ball routines in HMMR Classroom Video 5. Vern Gambetta also demonstrates over 75 exercises in his Medicine Ball Training DVD available for members to stream. We also looked at specific training for baseball in Episode 69 with Driveline Baseball founder Kyle Boddy.