Season 4 Episode 32 is out with Frank Andrews. Frank is currently a High Performance Development Coach at Baseball Ireland & Irish National Baseball Team Head Coach. Frank obtained his BS in Exercise Science/Biology at Concordia University and MS in Strength and Conditioning from Limerick Institute of Technology.

 

Frank explains specifically how the National Team operates and his experience within  the European Pool Qualifiers. Frank talks about his experience within Strength & Conditioning and the differences between USA and Abroad. Frank explains how he originally got the job with Baseball Ireland and how he started to expand the Irish Baseball Academy.

 

Frank is a very independent think about Strength & Conditioning and Baseball. Frank talks how he is creating adaptations towards his athletes in order to maximize their baseball playing abilities. Frank goes in-depth talking about his philosophies towards throwing and why anatomically throwing originates anteriorly rather than posteriorly.

 

Timestamps

 

Background: (02:00)

• Startup within baseball and strength and conditioning: (02:20)
• Injuries (4:00)
• Concordia University Minor in Chemistry and BS in Exercise Science/Biology (5:00)
• MS in Strength and Conditioning from Limerick Institute of Technology (07:20)
• Experience starting in Ireland and baseball abroad (08:10)
• Strike zone facility (10:15)

 

Ireland (12:10)

• MS program structure (12:10)
• Strength and Conditioning US vs Abroad (14:20)
• Popularity of baseball within Ireland (21:20)
• Growth of baseball over the next 5 years (25:10)

High Performance Development Coach (30:20)

• Development of baseball Ireland and establishing a high-performance environment? (31:00)
• Irish National team (34:00)
• Development programs ideology (38:00)
• In-depth analysis of programming style (42:30)
• Mountain Builder Bench Description (44:40)
• Description of throwing ideology using the perfect throw (48:12)
• Cueing ideology (57:30)

Throwing discussion

• Why the arm is more important than what people think (60:00)
• Evolution of the shoulder from monkeys into humans (61:10)
• Why monkeys can’t actually throw and the main function of their shoulders (63:20)
• Development of sternoclavicular joint and why throwing originates anteriorly rather than posteriorly (64:20)
• Training and understanding the eccentric motion of the throw (75:00)
• Baseball training philosophy adaptation from the past 5-10 years (82:40)
• Player Development over the next 5 years and why data interpretation is more important than technology (87:00)

 

Closing (98:30)