{"id":2587,"date":"2017-02-27T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2017-02-26T12:52:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T17:52:44","slug":"quarterback-vs-pitcher-vs-bench-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/blog-post\/quarterback-vs-pitcher-vs-bench-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarterback Vs. Pitcher Vs. Bench Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a great question come in regarding\u00a0our Blog last week; why we exclude bench press in our Baseball players’ strength programs (if you missed it, check out that Blog here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The question was<\/strong>:\u00a0Was having a similar conversation today about QBs and bench press. What do you think?<\/p>\n

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Here is my response:<\/strong><\/p>\n

While quarterbacks have similar stresses on their shoulders as pitchers, those stresses are a lot less than that of a pitcher. The record velocity for a quarterback throw is ~60mph whereas the highest recorded MLB pitch is ~105mph; they are in completely different ballparks (pardon the pun!). Because of this, throwing injuries are also a lot less common in quarterbacks. If we look at a study by Dodson, C.C; ET. Al<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0there are only 10 reported cases of UCL tears in NFL quarterbacks between 1994-2008 vs. 36 UCL tears in MLB pitchers in the 2015 & 2016 seasons\u00a0alone! The majority of injuries NFL quarterbacks sustain occur through direct contact, ~82.3% (according to a study by Kelly, B.T.; ET. Al.<\/a>)\u00a0while overuse injuries account for less than 15% of injuries.<\/p>\n

Another thing we have to consider is that most quarterbacks take long breaks from throwing in the off-season while pitchers (especially younger ones) have a tendency to jump the gun on their throwing programs and (in my opinion) on average do not let their shoulders recover long enough in the off-season.<\/p>\n

What this tells me is that the durability of a quarterback\u2019s shoulder is much higher than that of a pitcher\u2019s and can more than likely sustain higher stresses off the field in the gym. While it may be a good idea to avoid bench press for similar reasons as our baseball players do (exacerbates negative adaptations from throwing, too far away from throwing motion on force-velocity curve, and failure on a heavy rep puts the shoulder in a vulnerable position), having bench press in a quarterback\u2019s program is probably less likely to causes negative performance outcomes on the field. Which is, arguably, the most important thing to look for when choosing exercises for your athletes.<\/p>\n

Keep an eye out for Part 2<\/strong> of our Bench Press vs. Baseball Blog where we will show you pressing exercises much more suited to overhead throwing athletes, quarterbacks included!<\/p>\n

If you have any questions or comments about this or any of our other blogs let us know in our comments section or send our author an email directly (cplewes@sstcanada.com)!<\/p>\n

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We had a great question come in regarding\u00a0our Blog last week; why we exclude bench press in our Baseball players’ strength programs (if you missed it, check out that Blog here) The question was:\u00a0Was having a similar conversation today about QBs and bench press. What do you think? Here is my response: While quarterbacks have … Continue reading “Quarterback Vs. Pitcher Vs. Bench Press”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[109,144,7,134,112],"tags":[20,76,225,44,137,139,228,17,29,77,75,43,123,113,37,36,38,33,71],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-baseball","category-blog-post","category-football","category-qbcanada","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-training","tag-bench-press","tag-cfl","tag-cis","tag-cis-football","tag-combine-training","tag-football","tag-football-training","tag-mlb","tag-ncaa","tag-nfl","tag-ontario-football-prospects","tag-qb-canada","tag-qb-training","tag-quarterback","tag-quarterback-training","tag-strength","tag-strength-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}