Dr. Ismael Gallo

The purpose of baseball flows is to develop the players coordination patterns and athleticism. This is accomplished by tapping into ingrained motor patterns we developed as children.  Motor patterns that allowed us to develop from laying, rolling, scooting, crawling, walking and running.

(30 exercise environments to learn to master flow)  

The flows are arranged into exercise phases that are meant to be used as single workout sessions, I'm which players can choose to progress from phase to phase or explore different phases as needed. 

The 9-12 year old program is mostly body weight exercises.  In my experience, 9-12 year-old players require retraining, recalibrating, rewiring and reprogramming because of the current decrease in activity and movement literacy.

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Why Flow?

As a former player in the Dodgers Organization and currently a physical therapist working with baseball players, I have found that Flow proceeds athleticism.  It is the smooth transitions from movement pattern to movement pattern and posture to posture. Flow transcends movement for true athleticism is mastering the flow between environment, individual and task.  What we must realize is that movement in baseball doesn’t happen in a vacuum it is part of an ecosystem.

Flow is the conduit for our movement system.  Flow allows kinetic energy to travel up the Kinetic chain from one pattern to the next.  Like the flow of water from one river to the next.  The best baseball players have the best flow. 

Almost every single injury in baseball occurs in the crucial transitions from movement pattern to movement pattern and posture to posture.

Why are we not training the transitions?

In my experience, baseball is a very tradition based game.  Specially, when it comes to training.  There's teams still training with exercises I was performing over 20 years ago.  The jump in injuries is not a coincidence.  Athletes started hitting the weight room harder, but not necessarily smarter.  They built non-sport specific muscles.

After everything I’ve learned as a physical therapist, I wish I would have trained my athleticism a lot better.  As a professional baseball player, I trained very rigid and non-baseball specific movement patterns.  What I have found in over a decade of working with baseball players is that flow from one movement pattern to the next develops athleticism very quickly.  This allows the player to perform better on the baseball field.  What I learned from working with a player like Tommy Pham is that a player can train for power and speed and still lack neuro-developmental motor patterns.

Coaches are recruiting the best athletes.  One way of standing out is by training athleticism.  Opportunity cost is too great in baseball.. Imagine  driving in the wrong direction for 6 months and then having to circle back, except now there’s a traffic jam. un-training bad movement patterns  takes twice as long than training new ones.

One of the biggest issues in training for baseball is that we’ve been training patterns, speed and power without training flow.

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The purpose of the professional instructor (Trainers, S&C, Pitching/hitting instructor) is to educate the instructor on the intricacies of the flows.  

In my experience, the biggest limitations of educational programs is the therapeutic exercise variation.  In this program, instructors will learn over 90 exercises specifically for rotational athletes.  The program consist of mobility, stability, controlled mobility, coordination, strength, quick stretch and arm care.

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Why Flow?

As a former player in the Dodgers Organization and currently a physical therapist working with baseball players, I have found that Flow proceeds athleticism.  It is the smooth transitions from movement pattern to movement pattern and posture to posture. Flow transcends movement for true athleticism is mastering the flow between environment, individual and task.  What we must realize is that movement in baseball doesn’t happen in a vacuum it is part of an ecosystem.

Flow is the conduit for our movement system.  Flow allows kinetic energy to travel up the Kinetic chain from one pattern to the next.  Like the flow of water from one river to the next.  The best baseball players have the best flow. 

Almost every single injury in baseball occurs in the crucial transitions from movement pattern to movement pattern and posture to posture.

Why are we not training the transitions?

In my experience, baseball is a very tradition based game.  Specially, when it comes to training.  There's teams still training with exercises I was performing over 20 years ago.  The jump in injuries is not a coincidence.  Athletes started hitting the weight room harder, but not necessarily smarter.  They built non-sport specific muscles.

After everything I’ve learned as a physical therapist, I wish I would have trained my athleticism a lot better.  As a professional baseball player, I trained very rigid and non-baseball specific movement patterns.  What I have found in over a decade of working with baseball players is that flow from one movement pattern to the next develops athleticism very quickly.  This allows the player to perform better on the baseball field.  What I learned from working with a player like Tommy Pham is that a player can train for power and speed and still lack neuro-developmental motor patterns.

Coaches are recruiting the best athletes.  One way of standing out is by training athleticism.  Opportunity cost is too great in baseball.. Imagine  driving in the wrong direction for 6 months and then having to circle back, except now there’s a traffic jam. un-training bad movement patterns  takes twice as long than training new ones.

One of the biggest issues in training for baseball is that we’ve been training patterns, speed and power without training flow.

Start training in a game changer system.  Feed the flow.

The purpose of baseball flows is to develop the players coordination patterns and athleticism. This is accomplished by tapping into ingrained motor patterns we developed as children.  Motor patterns that allowed us to develop from laying, rolling, scooting, crawling, walking and running.  

The flows are arranged into exercise phases that are meant to be used as single workout sessions, in which Players can choose to progress from phase to phase or explore different phases as needed. 

The 13 year old to Pro player program consist of higher level exercises (flows) that will challenge the player with kettlebells, resistance bands, tidal tank and unpredictable weight training.  In my experience, post-pubescent players require retraining, recalibrating, rewiring and reprogramming because most have lost their ability to perform fundamental developmental motor patterns.

Give the free videos a try!

(55 exercise environments to learn to master flow)

Why Flow?

As a former player in the Dodgers Organization and currently a physical therapist working with baseball players, I have found that Flow proceeds athleticism.  It is the smooth transitions from movement pattern to movement pattern and posture to posture. Flow transcends movement for true athleticism is mastering the flow between environment, individual and task.  What we must realize is that movement in baseball doesn’t happen in a vacuum it is part of an ecosystem.

Flow is the conduit for our movement system.  Flow allows kinetic energy to travel up the Kinetic chain from one pattern to the next.  Like the flow of water from one river to the next.  The best baseball players have the best flow. 

Almost every single injury in baseball occurs in the crucial transitions from movement pattern to movement pattern and posture to posture.

Why are we not training the transitions?

In my experience, baseball is a very tradition based game.  Specially, when it comes to training.  There's teams still training with exercises I was performing over 20 years ago.  The jump in injuries is not a coincidence.  Athletes started hitting the weight room harder, but not necessarily smarter.  They built non-sport specific muscles.

After everything I’ve learned as a physical therapist, I wish I would have trained my athleticism a lot better.  As a professional baseball player, I trained very rigid and non-baseball specific movement patterns.  What I have found in over a decade of working with baseball players is that flow from one movement pattern to the next develops athleticism very quickly.  This allows the player to perform better on the baseball field.  What I learned from working with a player like Tommy Pham is that a player can train for power and speed and still lack neuro-developmental motor patterns.

Coaches are recruiting the best athletes.  One way of standing out is by training athleticism.  Opportunity cost is too great in baseball.. Imagine  driving in the wrong direction for 6 months and then having to circle back, except now there’s a traffic jam. un-training bad movement patterns  takes twice as long than training new ones.

One of the biggest issues in training for baseball is that we’ve been training patterns, speed and power without training flow.

Start training in a game changer system.  Feed the flow.