How do you teach your players to use warm up pitches?
Do your pitchers warm up on the side prior to taking the mound before the start of the game?
Are warm up pitches on the mound before the game to be used differently than between-inning warm up pitches?
Do your players start at "50%" effort, then ramp it up on each successive pitch? Is the main purpose of the warmup pitches to get a feel for locating pitches off of the mound? Or is the main purpose of the warmup to increase the temperature of the muscles involved in throwing the ball to obtain peak performance and reduce injury? Or is it something else?
Is there a downside to warmup pitches -- you are giving the batters extra time to study your stuff and delivery, plus you are piling onto your effective pitch count? Are there ways to combat this? Have you experimented with reduced warmup pitches?
My oldest likes to cut up a bit and has done some unusual warmup pitch antics. They haven't seemed to affect his performance, though.
What do you teach?
Do your pitchers warm up on the side prior to taking the mound before the start of the game?
Are warm up pitches on the mound before the game to be used differently than between-inning warm up pitches?
Do your players start at "50%" effort, then ramp it up on each successive pitch? Is the main purpose of the warmup pitches to get a feel for locating pitches off of the mound? Or is the main purpose of the warmup to increase the temperature of the muscles involved in throwing the ball to obtain peak performance and reduce injury? Or is it something else?
Is there a downside to warmup pitches -- you are giving the batters extra time to study your stuff and delivery, plus you are piling onto your effective pitch count? Are there ways to combat this? Have you experimented with reduced warmup pitches?
My oldest likes to cut up a bit and has done some unusual warmup pitch antics. They haven't seemed to affect his performance, though.
What do you teach?
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