Increasing Your Throwing Velocity with Weighted Softballs »

Posted By sportnut456 8 months, 2 weeks ago in Sports

Softball players want to develop their throwing arm strength need to consider using weighted softballs as a training aid.  Underloading and overloading training techniques have been shown in several scientific studies to increase your throwing velocity by 4 to 6 mph when used consistently during a 10 week training period.  Weighted balls , when used correctly, can develop a player's arm without incurring either short term or long term damage and, in fact, it has worked better than the traditional "long toss" method previously used.  Here is how I worked this technique into softball practices. 

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