Increasing Arm Strength- Baseball 101

Increasing your arm strength is huge in the game of baseball. To be an all around good player you are going to need to have a strong arm. Now when most of you hear "you have to have a strong arm" you probably think of lifting weights and literally become stronger. While this is true, its also false, to build up arm strength you do need to lift weights and such but you also need to throw long toss. Long toss is exactly what it sounds like, you and a partner throw long distances. This will then increase arm strength, not immediately but over a few weeks. To help reduce pain or soreness, you will need to run immediately after you throw and then ice after that. You should ice for 30 minutes, take the ice off for 30 minutes and do that at least twice.

Now onto talking about lifting weights, when you lift weights as a baseball player you never want to lift anything about the shoulders. Your probably asking yourself why? Well the reason you don't want to do this is because its bad for the rotater cuff. Especially when you are constantly using your arm to throw or even hit. Arm Strength is a very helpful tool to any baseball player at any level.