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Should You De-load or Shutdown? · The Mound Visit

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of The Mound Visit Podcast. Today
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna dive into d loads shutting down, do you
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  Speaker 1: keep throwing? There's so many different options this time of
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  Speaker 1: the year that I think this is a really important
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  Speaker 1: conversation to have because frankly, there's a lot of players
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  Speaker 1: and even coaches that don't handle this time of the
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  Speaker 1: year properly. In my opinion, I think there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of players that kind of get screwed
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  Speaker 1: up from either taking too much time off or going
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  Speaker 1: too hard, and then they end up being fatigued when
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  Speaker 1: the season starts. I think there's a fine line between
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  Speaker 1: the two of those things, that being underprepared and also overtraining.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna walk through a couple ideas, Like I'll
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you, like this is gonna be kind
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  Speaker 1: of an off the cuff type of episode, Like I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a bunch of notes that I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: off of. I'm just gonna kind of go off of
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  Speaker 1: what I've done in the past. Some thoughts that I
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  Speaker 1: have on this, and I don't want to say because
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to be a rant necessarily, but I
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  Speaker 1: am just going to kind of bounce back and forth
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  Speaker 1: between a couple different ideas and things that you could
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  Speaker 1: possibly do. And we'll also walk through an example of
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  Speaker 1: you know, based off of when your season starts, what
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  Speaker 1: does your ramp up need to look like? What does
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  Speaker 1: your dload look like? All of those things. So the
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  Speaker 1: first thing that we have to do when we're deciding
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  Speaker 1: whether we're going to shut down dload or just keep
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  Speaker 1: going high intent throwing is the number one thing we
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  Speaker 1: have to ask ourselves is are we healthy? If we're
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  Speaker 1: beat up, if we're fatigued, if we've accumulated a lot
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  Speaker 1: of innings this year from the spring, the summer in
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  Speaker 1: the fall, we're probably in need of some form of
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  Speaker 1: a deload or a shutdown because the body is signaling
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  Speaker 1: I'm tired, I need a break, I need something to
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  Speaker 1: change that I am effective come to spring for the season.
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  Speaker 1: So if that's you, know, if that's you, if you're
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  Speaker 1: feeling beat up, if you're feeling fatigued, you absolutely need
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  Speaker 1: to do something different other than continuing your high intent throwing.
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  Speaker 1: The second question we have to ask ourselves is when
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  Speaker 1: do I need to be built up for Let's just
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  Speaker 1: say I'm a starter, I need to be built up
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  Speaker 1: for five innings. If I'm a reliever, when do I
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  Speaker 1: need to be built up to be able to throw
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  Speaker 1: multiple times a week at high effort. Once we understand
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  Speaker 1: where we need to be or where that endpoint is,
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  Speaker 1: when that first game is, we can then work backwards
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  Speaker 1: from there to figure out how much time can I
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  Speaker 1: actually afford to take off from simply just a ramp
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  Speaker 1: up standpoint. That's not even factoring in time for development
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  Speaker 1: and to work on things. But simply if I take
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  Speaker 1: X amount of weeks off, do I have enough time
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  Speaker 1: to do a proper ramp up as well as to
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  Speaker 1: do my bullpen progression and my inning build up to
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  Speaker 1: be prepared for the season. And this is by far
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that gets screwed up the most
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  Speaker 1: is guys ramp up way too fast. They're underprepared for
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  Speaker 1: when the season starts. From a physical standpoint, there are
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  Speaker 1: and being in shape, and they might feel okay at first,
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  Speaker 1: but it's going to catch up to them eventually, and
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately a lot of times that's what can lead to injuries,
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  Speaker 1: as if we're not properly building ourselves. So I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going to look at a calendar here, I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to pull up on my phone so we can kind
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  Speaker 1: of work backwards in and play around with us a
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  Speaker 1: little bit to give you an idea of what we
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  Speaker 1: need to do. So let's just use division in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to assume opening day is February fourteenth. It's
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  Speaker 1: usually the middle of February that friday, So just looking
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  Speaker 1: at my schedule here, it looks like the fourteenth is
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  Speaker 1: opening day. And let's assume a starting pitcher needs to
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  Speaker 1: be prepared to go about five innings seventy to eighty
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  Speaker 1: pitches somewhere in there. Well, we can we can simply
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  Speaker 1: just work backwards from there of what they need to
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  Speaker 1: be doing for their progression. So the week prior to that,
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  Speaker 1: they need to be going at least four innings, So
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  Speaker 1: we'll look at February seventh. They need to be going
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  Speaker 1: at least four innings sixty to sixty five pitches to
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  Speaker 1: put them in a decent place to go five innings
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  Speaker 1: seventy to eighty. Now, ideally we have time to double up.
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  Speaker 1: So ideally this is not their first time going five innings.
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  Speaker 1: If they were able to do that the week prior
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  Speaker 1: in a scrimmage or a live VP, whatever it might be,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to prepare them a little bit better, because,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, a real game is going to bring
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  Speaker 1: on even more adrenaline. Those eighty pitches are probably going
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  Speaker 1: to be a little bit more stressful than they would
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  Speaker 1: be in a live VP type of setting. But if
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  Speaker 1: they go at least four sixty sixty five pitches, that's
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  Speaker 1: perfectly fine as well. So now we need to work
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  Speaker 1: back to the previous week. So now we are in January.
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  Speaker 1: At January thirty first, they need to have gone at
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  Speaker 1: least three innings around fifty pitches for that week. Go
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  Speaker 1: to the previous week. Now we're at January twenty fourth,
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  Speaker 1: they need to have gone at least two innings thirty
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  Speaker 1: thirty five pitches. Now we are back to January seventeenth,
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  Speaker 1: they need to have gone at least one inning around
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  Speaker 1: twenty pitches. And then from there we would just simply
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  Speaker 1: talk about a bullpen progression of how many bullpens they
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  Speaker 1: need before they're ready for one inning in a live setting. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I will say this is a very fast ramp up.
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  Speaker 1: Adding an inning in fifteen to twenty pitches every week
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  Speaker 1: is a fairly fast ramp up. Oftentimes you're gonna want
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  Speaker 1: to double up on a couple of those, specifically the
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  Speaker 1: two innings. I would say the two innings and the
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  Speaker 1: three innings are kind of some big jumps. Is to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that we're doubling up on those, or at
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  Speaker 1: least making sure they're prepared to increase that pitch coup.
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  Speaker 1: So let's just assume that we did a fast one is. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: time is an issue with division in baseball, right you
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  Speaker 1: only have so many weeks to prepare for the season.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have an infinite amount of time to make
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  Speaker 1: sure your guys are throwing lives. So in most cases,
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  Speaker 1: this is the type of ramp up that you have
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  Speaker 1: to do, and you just have to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: your guys are prepared before they show up back to
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  Speaker 1: campus and they're doing what they need to be doing
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  Speaker 1: away from the field and away from campus. So now
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  Speaker 1: looking at the week of January sixth, so this is
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  Speaker 1: the week prior to that first live, you're gonna want
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  Speaker 1: at least two bullpens that week, right around thirty pitches.
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  Speaker 1: Probably I would be doing two ups in this case,
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  Speaker 1: so one up of around fifteen pitches, Sit down, get
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  Speaker 1: back up, for another fifteen pitches or so, and you
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  Speaker 1: could even ramp up closer to forty pitches total for
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  Speaker 1: that bullpen where it's two sets of twenty, just to
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  Speaker 1: prepare them a little bit more for that one inning
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  Speaker 1: the falling week. I might be asking, Okay, if they're
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  Speaker 1: doing one inning the flying week, why should I be
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  Speaker 1: doing two ups in a bullpen the week prior. Answer simple,
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  Speaker 1: because if you think about it, yes, they're throwing one
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  Speaker 1: inny live, but you also have to factor in the
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  Speaker 1: warm up pitches. So they're doing a twenty fifteen to
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  Speaker 1: twenty pitch bullpen prior to the game. They're sitting down,
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  Speaker 1: they're going back out throwing another you know, six to
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  Speaker 1: eight warm up pitches, and then they're throwing their twenty.
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  Speaker 1: So they're really getting close to that fifty pitch mark
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  Speaker 1: total if we're talking about total pitches. So we want
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  Speaker 1: to get them used to warming up, sitting down, and
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  Speaker 1: then getting back up again, and we want that to
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  Speaker 1: be reflected in their bullpen progression as well. So now
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  Speaker 1: looking at the previous week, we have December thirtieth through
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  Speaker 1: January fifth, so here we'd be wanting two bullpens as well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, probably you know, potentially two sets of bullpens
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  Speaker 1: that week, where it's two sets of you know, fifteen
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  Speaker 1: ish pitches, but if it's one set of twenty five
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  Speaker 1: pitches around there like that would be perfectly fine. And
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  Speaker 1: then I would say they need probably one more week
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  Speaker 1: prior to that of bullpen work at the minimum, which
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  Speaker 1: would put us at Christmas Week, which is obviously gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a tough week for getting bullpens. If we're just
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  Speaker 1: thinking logically of what they're going to be able to do,
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  Speaker 1: that is December twenty through the twenty eighth, So knowing
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  Speaker 1: that they probably are only going to throw one that
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  Speaker 1: week just because of the holidays, you probably need a
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  Speaker 1: factor that they need to be throwing that previous week
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  Speaker 1: December sixteenth. So let's just leave that at the safe side.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a fairly expedited process with the lives
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  Speaker 1: and all that. But when we look at that, they
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  Speaker 1: need to be on the mound by December sixteenth, and
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  Speaker 1: that will ramp them up for one, two, three, about
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  Speaker 1: four weeks of bullpens. Keep in mind one of those
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  Speaker 1: is probably only one bullpen because of Christmas Week, and
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  Speaker 1: potentially they might have an issue on New year's week,
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  Speaker 1: depending on what they have going on as well, and
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  Speaker 1: then we have about a five week buildup of lives
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  Speaker 1: to prepare them for five innings on opening day in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of February. So that build up sounds great, right,
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  Speaker 1: we have our bullpen progression, we have our live build up,
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  Speaker 1: so now we need a factor in the catch play
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  Speaker 1: part of this. So that brought us to the week
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  Speaker 1: of December sixteenth, right, So that was the first day
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  Speaker 1: of bullpens is that week December sixteenth. Depending on how
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  Speaker 1: much time you take off will also determine what that
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  Speaker 1: ramp up needs to look like. And I have just
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  Speaker 1: kind of a simple, you know roule that you can follow.
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  Speaker 1: If you take one week off from throwing, it will
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  Speaker 1: take about one to two weeks to build back up
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  Speaker 1: to where you were previously. Two weeks off will take
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  Speaker 1: three to four weeks to build up, Three weeks off
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  Speaker 1: will take four to five weeks to build up, and
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  Speaker 1: then four weeks or more is gonna take you about
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  Speaker 1: a six week build up. So if we're saying, you know, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we want our guys to shut down for a month,
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  Speaker 1: don't want them to do anything during the month of
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  Speaker 1: November it's like, okay, that's fine, but you have to
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  Speaker 1: remember that's gonna take about a five to six week
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  Speaker 1: build up before they're even ready to get into their
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  Speaker 1: full on, high intent throwing. They might be touched in
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  Speaker 1: the mound at the end of that build up, but
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  Speaker 1: if they're not doing their full on bullpens, so you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to factor in another two to three weeks
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  Speaker 1: of bullpens after that as well, before they're even ready
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  Speaker 1: for lives. So if we think through that lens, that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna dramatically impact the way we decide how much time
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  Speaker 1: they shut down for I personally, you know, we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about it Division one baseball player who's start in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of February and they're a little fatigued. I would say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, shutting down for one week is perfectly fine,
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  Speaker 1: and then you want to start to build up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, and it can be even more of a
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  Speaker 1: d load to where they're not doing any high intent
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  Speaker 1: throwing for most of November, they're just mainly you know,
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  Speaker 1: working on you know, medium in tenth throwing extension phase,
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  Speaker 1: a long toss, lightly tossing, you know, anywhere from three
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  Speaker 1: to five days a week, probably by the end of it,
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  Speaker 1: it's around that five days mark, so if they're ready
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  Speaker 1: to build back up into bullpens. So that's just a
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  Speaker 1: general idea. Like there's so many ways that you can
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  Speaker 1: approach this. And one thing to keep in mind is
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  Speaker 1: most players can't afford to just shut down, ramp up
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  Speaker 1: and do a normal bullpen and live progression to get
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  Speaker 1: ready for the season. Most players are fighting for Indians,
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  Speaker 1: They are fighting for an opportunity to pitch in the spring,
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  Speaker 1: and they need to make improvements this this winn whether
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  Speaker 1: it's velocity enhancement, developing a secondary pitch, and proving their command.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of guys really can't afford to take much
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  Speaker 1: time off. With that said, I do you think that
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  Speaker 1: a d load could be very beneficial even if you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to shut down. Maybe you just want to
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  Speaker 1: d load for you know, two three weeks, catch your breath,
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  Speaker 1: and then you jump back into it, you know, around
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and now you're giving yourself, you know, for six
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  Speaker 1: weeks of development before you have to worry about your
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  Speaker 1: inning build up. And keep in mind where we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about anying build ups, that's mainly going to affect the starters.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a relief pitcher, you don't have to worry about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your inning build up. You know, at the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of January, you have more time. So that's an
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  Speaker 1: advantage if you are someone that's in that position that
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  Speaker 1: really needs to take some leaps forward with your development,
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  Speaker 1: is you do have a little bit more time you're
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  Speaker 1: not on that traditional inning build up. So with that
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  Speaker 1: in mind, I think you've got to reflect on where
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  Speaker 1: you're currently at. You know, have to be honest with yourself,
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  Speaker 1: and you've probably had exit meetings with your coaches at
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  Speaker 1: this point. If you are a coach, you should be
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  Speaker 1: having exit meetings with your players so that you can
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  Speaker 1: give them an idea of where they stand, what they
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  Speaker 1: need to show by the time they get back from
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  Speaker 1: winter break to really make a meaningful impact on the
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  Speaker 1: team and to pitch meaningful innings come springtime. So that's
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  Speaker 1: for a Division one baseball player, they don't start to
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  Speaker 1: the middle of February, so they have a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of wiggle room. But I also work with a handful
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  Speaker 1: of junior college players, specifically in Arizona, because that's where
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  Speaker 1: I'm at, and junior college baseball starts super early. Their
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  Speaker 1: first game. I don't know the exact date, but it's
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  Speaker 1: around the end of January. Like if I look at
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  Speaker 1: my phone, I see the calendar, and let's just assume
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  Speaker 1: it's on a Friday. I want to say they're starting
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  Speaker 1: around the weekend of January twenty fourth. That is not
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  Speaker 1: far away at all. So when we're talking about shutdowns,
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  Speaker 1: you really can't afford to take much time off at all.
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  Speaker 1: You probably are better off just doing a dload, which
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm suggesting recommending for a lot of my
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  Speaker 1: junior college players that are feeling, you know, perfectly fine,
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  Speaker 1: they just might need to catch their breath for a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, is to d load for the month of
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  Speaker 1: November and then December they can jump into a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of development time and then their ramp up and
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  Speaker 1: their build up if they are a starting pitcher. And
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of college coaches, you know, even at
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  Speaker 1: the junior college level, that are having their players shut
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  Speaker 1: down for way too long, whether it's you know, four weeks,
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  Speaker 1: five weeks, in some cases even six weeks, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just not fact in how much time it actually takes
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  Speaker 1: to do a proper ramp up with just your throwing
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  Speaker 1: and then to your bullpen progression and then your live progression,
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  Speaker 1: and it really just doesn't leave a lot of time.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go through this step by step now, assuming
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  Speaker 1: opening day is January twenty fourth, So let's say once again,
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  Speaker 1: you want to go five innings seventy to eighty pitches.
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  Speaker 1: That means January seventeenth you need to go four innings
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  Speaker 1: sixty sixty five pitches. January tenth, you need to go
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  Speaker 1: three innings fifty pitches. January third you need to go
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  Speaker 1: two innings thirty five pitches. Round there, December twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 1: you need to go one inning, twenty pitches. So now
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  Speaker 1: we have to go back to our bullpen progression now.
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  Speaker 1: So now our bullpens, So the week of December sixteenth
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  Speaker 1: would be you know that two up bullpen's getting close
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  Speaker 1: to forty pitches in the bullpen total. The week prior
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  Speaker 1: December ninth, we're doing probably one set of twenty five
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  Speaker 1: pitches or so. Then the week of December second would
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  Speaker 1: probably be our first week of bullpens. So we're all
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  Speaker 1: ready at November eleventh, so that means bullpens need to
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  Speaker 1: start in three weeks essentially, So if you're shutting down
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  Speaker 1: for four weeks. Well, we're already behind the eight ball
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to just a standard bullpen progression if
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  Speaker 1: they are a starting pitcher. So it's really important that
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  Speaker 1: you start with the end in mind, that you look at, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: when is our first game, where do they need to
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  Speaker 1: be built up to? Then you work backwards from there.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not doing that, you're simply just guessing and
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  Speaker 1: you're going to end up causing guys to rush their
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  Speaker 1: build up, but they're not going to be fully prepared
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  Speaker 1: and they're probably not going to be as effective for you.
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  Speaker 1: And this very thing actually happened to me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I played junior college baseball here in Arizona. First game
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  Speaker 1: was around this same timeframe, end of January. I took
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  Speaker 1: off all of November from throwing, and I felt like
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what I was doing. Come opening weekend,
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  Speaker 1: I just I didn't feel like myself on the mound.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I didn't have feel for my off
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  Speaker 1: speed pitches. It just felt like I had a very
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  Speaker 1: fast ramp up and I lost just the comfort and
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  Speaker 1: feel that comes with throwing consistently for a long period
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  Speaker 1: of time. And it took about a month into the
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  Speaker 1: season before I felt like myself again, and looking back
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  Speaker 1: on it, I wish I would have just deloaded, not
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  Speaker 1: shut down from throwing, but just give myself a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a breather for two three weeks. You honestly,
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  Speaker 1: you could even take the whole month as a deload
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  Speaker 1: if you're someone that feels a little fatigued, or if
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you feel like there isn't anything glaring
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  Speaker 1: that you need to really improve to get meaningful innings
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  Speaker 1: in the spring. I would argue that everyone has something
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  Speaker 1: they need to work on, but you know, point being,
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  Speaker 1: if you're someone that just needs to do a regular
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  Speaker 1: ramp up, you could deload all of November and you're
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  Speaker 1: ready to jump into bullpens beginning of December because you're
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  Speaker 1: already in throwing shape, and maybe that last week in November,
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  Speaker 1: you do, you know, a couple high intent days of
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  Speaker 1: just long toss and poll downs, and you're ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's the lens. I want you to start thinking
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  Speaker 1: through and understanding how much time do you actually need
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  Speaker 1: and not just saying, yeah, I'm going to take two
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  Speaker 1: weeks off and then I'll just gradually build up and
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  Speaker 1: I'll be fine for the season without factoring in how
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  Speaker 1: much time it actually takes to do that. Now, there's
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  Speaker 1: also a group of players that are in colder weather states,
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  Speaker 1: specifically high school players where their seasons don't start till
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  Speaker 1: March or April eaving, and I think even in Iowa,
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  Speaker 1: I want to say they start in May. So if
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  Speaker 1: you're in those situations, you have plenty of time. I
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  Speaker 1: would say that November is probably a great time to shutdown.
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  Speaker 1: You could afford to take, you know, four to six
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  Speaker 1: weeks of a shutdown period, do a proper ramp up,
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  Speaker 1: jump into a development phase, whether it's a velocity pitch movement,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it might be, and then start to blend to
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  Speaker 1: the mound for normal bullpen work and all that. You
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  Speaker 1: do have plenty of time, So I would say if
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  Speaker 1: you're in a situation like that, taking November off, maybe
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  Speaker 1: even you know, getting closer to the six week off
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  Speaker 1: mark if you really need it, can be okay because
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  Speaker 1: you have such a long runway to accomplish what you
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  Speaker 1: need to do. With that in mind, I would still
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  Speaker 1: start with opening day and work backwards from there and
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  Speaker 1: try to have a general idea of what your whole
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  Speaker 1: year looks like obviously we're talking about the winner right now,
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  Speaker 1: but I think mapping out your entire year can be
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  Speaker 1: really helpful just to look at it from a bird's
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  Speaker 1: eye view of understanding, Okay, what is the evan flow
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  Speaker 1: of my calendar? When am I in season mode? When
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  Speaker 1: are my d loads? When is my shutdown period? When
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  Speaker 1: is my development phase? All of those things are going
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  Speaker 1: to paint a really clear picture for you if you
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  Speaker 1: look at it from a bird's eye view. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean that we can adjust and that we have to
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  Speaker 1: stick perfectly to what that calendar says, but at least
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  Speaker 1: gives us a good idea of what we're shooting for
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  Speaker 1: and what the general plan is for our off season
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  Speaker 1: and in season development. To help with this process, I
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  Speaker 1: do have a couple free throwing build ups, I have
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  Speaker 1: an inning build up. I have a dload plan as
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  Speaker 1: well as build up plans or on ramp plans for
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, three, four, five and six weeks.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll be sure to attach the link to that
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  Speaker 1: in the notes below. And if you have any questions,
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  Speaker 1: don't hesitate to ask. You can reach me on social media.
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  Speaker 1: You can send me a direct message and I'll get
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  Speaker 1: back to you as fast as I can to answer
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  Speaker 1: any questions you have. That wraps up this episode. I'll
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  Speaker 1: see you guys next time.