If Your Sport Breaks You

July 17, 2025

When you watch a pitcher throw a baseball in real time at full speed, who is a high level thrower, and you look at the speed of it, the actual velocity of it, and the intensity of it, right? If we were to look at that, almost like think, put that side by side with like what someone does in the gym or in a training session to prepare. And if we didn't have like these preset ideas of what training was and what working out was of like, you know, bench press and deadlift and squat. Like if we didn't have these preconceived notions of what training was for that, we would probably laugh at if someone were to tell us that, like, hey.

Preparing you for this. Well, again, with the video of the guy throwing to prepare you for this, what we're going to do is this and have a video of a guy doing like a wall slide or something. Right?

 It doesn't make any sense if we were to put it in a different context. If we were to be like, hey, man, the way to prepare for landing off of a 20-foot drop is to do... Is to do five reps of like toe moves. And that is the preparation. That would not make any logical sense. 

Maybe the toe moves are a part of it. But it doesn't actually fully prepare the person for that. Actual intensity that is put into that activity, right? And so I think it's important to just break these down a little bit and look at, like, what is it that your sport actually is? What is it that throwing actually is? Sprinting actually is. What are the actual forces that are happening? What's the demands of it? And then look at, is your preparation really truly actually preparing you for that and more difficult than that?