Laura McDonald

Objective workload data should be contextualized within the athlete’s developmental stage, mechanical profile, and recovery capacity. Without this context, raw volume metrics risk misrepresenting actual tissue stress and adaptation potential.

27.08.2025 01:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Puberty alters segmental mass and neuromuscular control. In #softball pitchers, these changes can affect stride length, temporal sequencing, and angular velocity. Interpreting movement during this phase requires accounting for individual and maturational variability.

24.08.2025 13:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Functional resilience is achieved when an athlete can replicate efficient mechanics under variable constraints. This requires integration of skill, strength, and coordination training that reflects the ecological demands of competitive #softball pitching environments.

23.08.2025 13:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Integration of biomechanical analysis into return-to-sport decision-making provides a safeguard against premature exposure to high stress conditions. Clinical teams should leverage both quantitative motion data and qualitative movement observation in this process.

20.08.2025 01:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Monitoring workload in #softball pitching requires measuring both internal and external efforts, like perceived exertion and pitch count or intensity. Understanding their interaction provides a fuller picture for forecasting tissue endurance and strength. #PitchingInsights #SportsScience

17.08.2025 13:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The trunk-arm relationship is central to kinetic chain efficiency in softball pitching. Chest-pelvis separation during the open chain phase provides the temporal space for optimal arm slotting. Loss of this dissociation under fatigue may increase upper extremity joint loading.

16.08.2025 13:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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17.03.2025 14:29 — 👍 177    🔁 26    💬 11    📌 6

Want longevity as a pitcher? Don't get boxed in. Physically or metaphorically. If your pitching training isn't adapting as you develop, your performance ceiling is artificially capped.

17.03.2025 17:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Deviations from “ideal” mechanics are trained out of pitchers; her problem-solving ability stunted by a narrow bandwidth of movement exploration. Faced with a new constraint (fatigue, shrinking strike zone, field conditions), she will be unable to effectively adapt.

17.03.2025 17:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What does she ACTUALLY bring with her that is slow to change or naturally occurring as part of her physical development.

What psychosocial influences exist (like anxiety) that may shape with environmental constraint response?

17.03.2025 17:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This assumption has led coaches to focus on static and isolation drills to perfectly replicate the positions these elite pitchers create. Coaching developing athletes is not paint by number. It's a canvas that is constantly.

And elite athletes are elite compensators.

17.03.2025 17:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Softball pitching has long been instructed by mimicking key positions in the motion. Models for these positions were derived under the assumption that because a pitcher is "elite", her mechanics must be of quality to replicate. Here's the problem with that. 👇🏻

17.03.2025 17:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0