“Biomarkers”: Your foolproof path to elite pitching command!

This is your body’s reality.

Every time you move, your body produces a predictable “biomarker” (a “biological” + “marker”) telling you how your movement impacts your balance.

As an example, you walk a balance beam and swing one foot away from the beam, to offset the weight shift created by your foot movement and without any conscious thought, your head moves in the opposite direction away from the beam.  

Your head’s response is a “biomarker” and is used in one of 2 ways …

1. Informational - Your head position relative to the beam tells you there’s a weight shift on the opposite side of the beam. 

2. Decision-making – By managing your foot movement, you determine your head placement.

Your foot placements produce essential “biomarkers”.

Something as simple as your initial foot placements tell you everything you need to know about the “biomarker” patterns and results that’ll follow.

Your foot placements force you to complete your front leg lift with one of these three “biomarkers”.

1. Your back-knee ending up over your back foot signifies your weight is over your back foot. 

2. Your back-knee settling in front of your back foot tells you your weight is in front of your back foot. 

3. Your back-knee finishing to the second base side of your back foot means your weight is centered just in front of your back foot.

Your foot placement “biomarkers” determine your results.

Your weight over your back foot.

To move down the mound, you make some action that’ll shift your weight toward your target (a “biomarker”) and, as you move down the mound, to offset your forward weight shift, you lose control of your throwing arm path and your command (both “biomarkers”).

Your weight ends up in front of your back foot.

With your weight in front of your back foot, gravity takes over your movement down the mound. You use your throwing arm path to try and keep your body in balance and, as above, you lose control of your throwing arm path and your command (both “biomarkers”).

Your weight is centered just in front of your back foot.

With your weight centered around your core (another “biomarker”), instead of moving down the mound, you use your current throwing action to keep your lower body attached to your upper body (a “biomarker”). Instead of using your throwing arm to keep your balance, you use your throwing arm to get your body back in balance (a “biomarker”). With your body pulling your throwing hand through the same tiny release window on every pitch (a “biomarker”), you expect every pitch to travel directly into your Catcher’s target (another “biomarker”).

How to make your time more productive.

Your “biomarkers” are separate from your actions. The instant you begin treating your “biomarkers” as a controllable action becomes the instant you begin spinning your wheels. The only way to change any “biomarker” is to adjust the actions associated with it.

Once you completely understand the power of “biomarkers”, you understand every “biomarker” relates in some way to your front leg lift body position. Armed with this information, instead of wasting your time trying to change the way your “biomarkers” look, you merely adjust your front leg lift and, without stressing over your movements, know you’ll challenge every hitter on every pitch (another, and perhaps, your most important “biomarker”).

To fast track your “biomarker” management, contact us.

Skip Fast

Expert Pitching Coach
Professional Pitching Institute

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