Lindsay Berra
Mustard’s Kinematic Sequencing Charts: How to Understand and Interpret the Data to Improve Your Pitching Delivery
Baseball
Sequencing is the key to the pitching delivery. To help you more clearly visualize what the kinematic sequence looks like, we have added sequencing charts to the Mustard app.
Mustard Mechanics: Throwing a Football Vs. Throwing a Baseball
Baseball
Coach Tom House shares how the throwing mechanics of pitchers and quarterbacks are both different and the same.
Clayton Kershaw’s Daily Routine
Clayton Kershaw
Los Angeles Dodgers All-Star Clayton Kershaw Shares How He Preps His Body and Mind from One Start to the Next
11 min read
How to Assess and Improve Functional Strength
Baseball
Functional strength training for pitchers focuses on developing strength that will support you through your throwing motion.
Tom House and Alan Jaeger on the Different Ways to Incorporate Long Toss into Your Throwing Routine
Baseball
Kids today pitch too much and throw too little. The solution? Long toss.
Pitch Counts: The Simplest Way to Decrease a Young Pitcher’s Risk of Injury
Baseball
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.
Coaching Tips from Coach Tom House
Baseball
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 Welcomes Clayton Kershaw as First Pro Athlete Guest “In the Kitchen”
Mustard
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.
Engaging with Coaches and Umpires: Tom House’s Tips for Parents of Youth Athletes
Baseball
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.
Supporting Youth Athletes: Coach Tom House’s Tips for Parents
Parents
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.
Loosen Up! Increase Performance and Prevent Injury with a Proper Warmup
Baseball
Throwing is not the best warmup for throwing! Learn how to properly warm up with coach Tom House's science-based training program.
Getting Started: Kids Have to Learn to Catch & Throw Before They Pitch
Pitching
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.
The 11 Mechanical Variables of the Pitching Delivery
Balance
During the pitching delivery, a pitcher’s total body needs to get to the right place at the right time with the right sequence of movements. The Mustard app looks at all the biomechanical variables of the pitching delivery in a way that is much more accurate than the eyes could ever be.
Stack & Track: The Final 20% of Velocity
Baseball
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.

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