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Pre-throwing warm-up exercises

Hopefully all of your workouts and practices are preceded by a warm-up.

Some warm-up exercises I use before throwing practice

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Wednesday: core, plyos, strength, lateral conditioning training log

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I went straight to the gym from the high school team's practice, so no dynamic warmup was necessary.

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I did my typical sprint workout on Tuesday as follows:  linear plyos, sprinters starts, 40 yard sprints with complete recovery.  My workout was done on grass in cleats.  Sprints were on a slight incline.

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