For high school and college players, and even people advanced, there is no perfect throwing program. There is no perfect training program. There is no perfect warmup. There is no perfect anything.

So stop thinking there is. Stop looking at reels and thinking that there’s a perfect program, or a perfect warmup. Or a perfect throwing program. There isn’t one. Stop looking for that.

Make it your own. Choose things over time that you’ve liked and that you don’t like. And make it your own, because you have to have your own routine.

And if you play, you’re going to change constantly. You might change every day of the whole year, to adapt to how you’re feeling that day.

So stop thinking there is the perfect program. Please, it is honestly insane.

And gaining 30 pounds, 25 pounds, isn’t going to magically going to make you throw harder. That is nonsense.

What comes first: Getting stronger? Running faster? Throwing harder? Having better command?

How about just love to go outside and throw.
Love to try to compete.
Love to make the ball move left.
Love to see if you can sink it.
Love to see if you can be Pedro Martinez, or Felix Hernandez, or Randy Johnson.
Actually like playing the game and watching the game and learning. Not thinking that the perfect training program will fix your life.

The majority of people you watch on TV probably just grew up having fun, and then they got really good at it. And eventually, they had to go into some type of program to stay committed, stay consistent, and stay healthy.

But at first, it was for the love of the game.

And if you aren’t playing the game for love, you’re kind of wasting your time.

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Brooks Hall was drafted in 2009 in the fourth round out of high school, and has spent 13 years pitching professionally with the Brewers, Diamondbacks, Mets, as well as in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Australia and Taiwan and currently in the Mexican League.

He has joined with Seth Blair, a nine-year pro pitcher and first-rounder from Arizona State, to teach pitching remotely through their training program, Soul Throwers.

“We take our own approach when it comes to finding the path for you. We start with a full body assessment and then determine your body’s capacity. We find ways to go back to the basics and find a way to turn the brain off and just play. We have more of a holistic approach compared to the industry. Our favorite thing is to throw gas and win on the mound and mold players to do the same thing.

“We’ve helped hundreds of players gain velocity, get rid of anxiety, create confidence they never thought they would have, look at baseball in a different lens, and much much more. We are trying to help people gain perspective on what they are trying to accomplish. We are just helping shape real humans that want to keep playing baseball.”
– SoulThrowers.com