Weighted Ball

The Overhead Throwing Motion & the
Weighted Ball.
So what about weighted balls? Weighted ball throwing programs? We have all read
countless articles on how safe they are and how evil they are. As you might guess this is
one of the hottest topics out here at this moment in baseball and football. Tomorrow it will
be something else, but today it is “do we or do we not throw weighted balls” as part of our
training program.
For us it’s simple. When in doubt don’t.
In the countless meetings we have had with orthopedic surgeons and “medical
institutions” in the business of sports medicine, along with the many meetings with top
university sports research groups, we hear over and over again about “leverage and
physics”. The common area of concern is always “repetitive inline (linear) forces and the
need to create counter forces (cross training) to fend off “grooving” injuries. Funny, we
have never read anything out there about “grooving” but we keep hearing the word in
describing how certain injuries in the shoulder occur. Read more Visit;
https://medium.com/@7reason7webb/quick-thoughts-the-overhead-throwing-motion-theweighted-ball-904a69d8c289