A Pitcher's Success Story...

Matt Costanza to Kevin McGovern

August 16 ·

4 months ago, while on the mound for a college game, I let go of a pitch and felt a sharp pain shoot down from my elbow down to my fingers. Never having felt something so wrong in my arm before, my coaches and I decided to pull me from the game before I even threw another pitch.

I ended up being diagnosed with a sprained UCL in my right elbow, minimum of 4 weeks without throwing a baseball, and working with my athletic trainer every single day to maintain strength in my arm.

Fast forward 3 months later, after undergoing a throwing program to get my arm back to normal, I still felt my arm was weaker, and more sore than ever. Kevin McGovern took me aside at one of my summer league games, and in no exaggeration- 15 minutes- had me throwing a baseball full strength with no pain in my elbow whatsoever. Wanting to learn more I scheduled a private workout with him two days later. Within the first hour of our lesson, I was throwing off a mound, again with no pain in my elbow, something I wasn’t supposed to do for another whole month.

While I’m not at full strength yet, I’ve continued to work with Kevin over the past month to get me there, and never thought I’d see such immediate results. His philosophy of using the center of my body to control my extremities, working from “proximal to distal” has given me the ability to use the basic physiological movements of my body to my advantage. As he says, pitching negates every natural movement the arm was made to make, and his principles allow it to move in the most natural way possible. He even helped me apply all these teachings into my hitting, fielding, and even base stealing.

Kevin removed everything in my head that I thought I knew about pitching, a implanted movements that simply just make sense. However long my pitching career may last, I owe it to Kevin McGovern.