P3, Premier Pitching and Performance, offers youth, high school, college and professional baseball players pitching instruction and athletic training.
P3, located in the Bud Dome sports complex, features indoor fields, weight rooms and pitching mounds.
P3 focuses on building strong pitchers. They use new, sometimes controversial techniques to build and repair the pitcher’s arms.
Using small weights, the player can focus on their technique and smaller muscles within their body.
Here, the P3 athletes work on their agility.
P3 offers individualized pitching coaching on their many indoor pitching mounds.
Through the winter “off” season, many P3 athletes stop pitching, but continue to throw long toss to keep their throwing arms liber.
At each P3 training session begins, athletes stretch out and warm up.
P3 tests advancements and weaknesses in players through agility and strength tests.
Shoulder strength and mobility is highly important to a baseball player.
Josh Kesel, strength training and conditioning coach at P3, works with athletes on long jump drills.
Through the off-season, athletes focus on throwing drills. These allow the athlete to focus on individual movement when pitching a ball.
Coach and owner Brian DeLunas and youth coach Tyler Bethards work together with a P3 athlete on pitching drills.
P3 focuses on individualized workout plans for each athlete. Each athlete gets a binder with either P3’s logo or their committed school’s logo on the front.
The back wall of one of the indoor fields is dedicated to arm bands, exercises that focus on the smaller motions and muscles involved in pitching. Keeping the athletes strong and healthy is the number one most important thing.
During a transition between pitching performance and strength training, coaches and athletes stop for a moment to rehydrate and discuss.
Coach Brian DeLunas works with a P3 athlete on his individual plan. DeLunas has coached multiple past and present MLB and collegiate baseball players. DeLunas is also an MBU alumni.
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