Improving velocity is about building more powerful and resilient athletes in the weight room and maximizing movement efficiency on the field.

It's not about just pulling out a radar gun, a cookie cutter program and telling a kid to throw with intent.

Anyone can grunt their way to a 2 mph Instagram PR, but that approach massively limits top end potential, sustainability of those gains and ↑ injury risk as well.

Long toss, WBs, plyos, radar guns are all specific tools useful when used for ↑ efficiency.

Once you understand the training process from that lens, no one tool becomes the holy grail, because the holy grail is movement, and movement is highly individualized.

You must have many tools and applications to match to the specific issue.

This is the reason I rail against coaches who tell us this process is as simple as hitting a weight room formula and long tossing, then dismiss the large % who don't improve by telling them they have a movement issue, with zero context for what that means or how to improve it.

Giving someone a 5 exercise program is easy, and young untrained kids will benefit to a point.

Telling kids to throw hard and long toss is easy, and some athletes will benefit to a point.

But it's entirely missing the boat if reaching maximum long term potential is the goal.

Coaches who market the former as the holy grail to unsuspecting 15 year olds ironically also limit their OWN potential as well as a business/coach by prioritizing their short term gains/sales over their long term reputation/process.

So I guess you could say: