How to Use a Rice Bucket
Hey There Friend!
This week I wanted to share some easy things you can use to help pitchers of ALL ages improve their finger, hand, wrist and forearm strength AS WELL AS reduce their chances of soreness/injury!
Check out the video above for examples of all the exercises.
All you need to to get started is a 5-gallon bucket and 20 pounds of uncooked rice!
These exercises are especially great for pitchers that experience tightness and/or soreness in their forearms that may come from working on high spin pitches like the curve ball or rise ball.
Using a rice bucket daily for a few minutes daily will help stretch and strengthen the small muscles that are so very important in helping to create FAST spin that will make movement pitches BREAK more SHARPLY!
You can do both arms together in the bucket (if they fit in your bucket easily) OR you can do one arm for 5-10 seconds and then switch to the other arm for 5-10 seconds.
Try using it as a WARM-UP before your pitching workouts!
Using a rice bucket a few times each week is a quick and easy way to reduce soreness and add strength to the small muscles that are so important to spinning the ball!
Have your pitchers give it a try for a few weeks and let me know what they think!
- Do they feel stronger?
- Experience less soreness?
- Spin the ball faster?
I'd LOVE to hear from you!
You can always reach me at [email protected]!
Have a fabulous weekend my friend! I'll be in touch again next week!
All My BEST,
Myndie
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Myndie Berka
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Hi, I'm Myndie. Welcome to my weekly blog! I'm the founder of a training company called BreakThrew Fastpitch and I love helping softball pitchers and their parents, catchers and coaches GROW. I blog about ALL THINGS PITCHING - from mechanics, skill development and workouts TO habit building, growth mindset and competitive practice games. Watch video, listen to audio content, and download PDF files to use during your at-home or team practices. I try to give you something a little bit different each and every Thursday morning!
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