Functional strength training for pitchers focuses on developing strength that will support you through your throwing motion.

Kids today pitch too much and throw too little. The solution? Long toss.

There are three things that contribute to keeping a pitcher’s arm healthy: Workload, biomechanical efficiency, and functional strength. Of those three things, the one parents, coaches and athletes can all easily do is count pitches.

As a coach, you must be able to look in the mirror and say, honestly and earnestly, that the athlete comes first, that you will value process over outcome and that you will do everything in your power to use sports to improve the lives of your athletes.

Mustard's new content platform “In the Kitchen” will feature live, interactive, instructional content with coaching sessions from many of the greatest athletes and coaches of all time.

Parents should only engage with coaches in a way that facilitates their child’s learning experience and enjoyment of the game, and they really shouldn’t engage with umpires at all.

Supportive parents can be the biggest advantage youth athletes can have, but overbearing ones can be their biggest disadvantage. Coach Tom House shares tips for parents of youth athletes to help them reap the benefits of The Power of Play.

Throwing is not the best warmup for throwing! Learn how to properly warm up with coach Tom House's science-based training program.

Kids need to learn basic catching and throwing skills before they should even think about learning to pitch. The process of growing up as an athlete is much more enjoyable for both kids and parents if you move at an age-appropriate pace and take pleasure in small gains.

In a pitching delivery, energy is transferred from the ground up, through the legs and into the torso. Up to 80 percent of that energy is then carried into velocity by angular torque. The final 20 percent of that energy is transferred through linear torque in the torso.

As a pitcher’s shoulders begin to square up toward home plate, the glove needs to swivel so the palm is facing the chest and stabilize over the landing foot, inside the width of the torso, between the shoulders and the belly button.

In just one year, with the help of coach Tom House and Mustard, pitcher Justin Courtney went from training solo in Maine to closing for the Los Angeles Angels Low-A affiliate, the Inland Empire 66ers.

Set position determines all of the balance and posture positions that are necessary to initiate the delivery.

By Tom House, PhD and Jason Goldsmith, with Lindsay Berra What is play? It’s an imaginative activity that promotes discovery and learning and facilitates social and emotional intelligence. Play is a source