Tim Lincecum has to be one of, if not the, hottest pitchers in the National League. His meteoric rise to notoriety has many future major leaguers wanting to copy his workouts and pitching motion.
Being a former collegiate pitcher myself and working in the allied health profession of athletic training, I can appreciate the tremendous athletic ability that Tim Lincecum possesses. He and his father both have brilliant minds when it comes to understanding the biomechanics and physics behind skillfully and optimally throwing a baseball.
But to attempt to copy his throwing motion, without proper athletic conditioning, could cause more frustration for a youngster than success. In last year's Sports Illustrated article, the author clearly identifies Tim's success is due to his true athleticism.
Before you attempt to copy Tim's pitching motion, make sure you have prepared your body the way he has. Tim Lincecum and other professional baseball players' workouts are functional in nature. They usually follow a type of conditioning known as periodization where specific goals for in-season, post-season, and pre-season are defined. Then a conditioning program is created from there. But the most successful training programs performed by players like Tim Lincecum are those types of workouts that are functional in nature and stress athletic movements.
If you want functional training programs that train athletic movements for baseball, I recommend Big League Workouts.
