Q&A for How to Develop Arm Strength for Baseball

For younger guys, just throwing in general, consistent throwing over time. A good habit of throwing is just going outside and getting repetitions. Push-ups are also great: they teach you some toughness, and they don't directly make you throw harder but help your overall upper body be stronger. As you get a little bit more into the game and advanced, do some basic dumbbell exercises with lightweight dumbbells (two to five pounds), like front shoulder raises and side shoulder raises. Those are two of the best ones. There are also tubing and any resistance exercises, and it's good to mix those up too, but you're not going to have an 8 or 10-year-old doing them. Jaeger bands are really popular in the baseball world, and you can start using them by 12.

You can start most of these at any age, but serious weight lifting shouldn't be done until around the age of 14/15.

Yes. Your handedness doesn't matter. These are leg and torso exercises. For the long toss, throw with your left arm.

Get yourself resistance bands and do multiple arm workouts with them, hook them on a sturdy pole in your home.

Play catch with your friends and do longer throws more often. Stop if your arm hurts.

You could use band training and weighted balls, and just practice your pitching.

Just try to throw the ball around as much as possible with somebody else, as long as your arm doesn't start to hurt. Weights are great, but the best way to improve arm strength is to just spend time throwing.