You know, I've been meaning to get back into baseball as a pitcher.  Nothing big, we're not talking about the minors or anything.  But I wanted to get on a hardball league this summer(kind of blew that already.)

I can still train and get my arm ready for next baseball season.  Last time I threw was in high school and I'm pretty sure it was low 80s mph.  That's nothing special, but if I could get my arm in the upper 80s mph, I would even impress myself.

So what muscles to work on and what type of weight training should I do?  Well first when it comes for baseball training, I hear long toss is a great way to strengthen up my arm and get more velocity on my pitch.  Next is working ever muscle in my sholder, exercise like front and back delt raises.  Another great one would be the shoulder press, this is one I'm really good at.

Also I think strengthening the forearm would help, a lot of athletes have weak forearms so they end up developing tennis elbow.  A exercise such as dumbbell wrist curls and reverse barbell curls.

With doing these exercises along with some long toss over the summer, I think I could get my pitching arm very well developed for next season.  I can't tell you how proud I would be if I could throw high 80s mph.  I may be aiming high, but hey, you never know.  I started throwing in 70s mph when I was 11 years old.  That's pretty crazy huh?  I'm much more developed now, with stronger shoulders and forearms.  But I heard sometimes muscle can get in the way of throwing heat down the plate.  I guess time will only tell.

I plan on picking up a Bushnell radar gun either today or tomorrow. I want to see how fast I can throw right off the bat. I'm guessing either high 70s mph or maybe touch in the 80s mph. Maybe between 80mph - 82mph.

By the way, the fireball thrower in the picture you see up top is Randy Johnson. He measures in at 6' 10" and could throw a baseball around 90mph. The guy naturally built strong, you can tell!