StackBaseball's video: Tigers Pitcher Justin Verlander: The Walking Lunge Exercise

Justin Verlander, a star baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball (MLB) team, and his trainer Javair Gillett, teach the Walking Lunge. ""We really wanna make sure that the glutes and the hamstrings are strong going in the season, so we’ve gone into a walking lunge, and glutes are where you get your power from. Your butt is where you generate the power. Three goals you have in mind: first thing is you gotta avoid injury, so where the squat is really to, is really that power-generating maximized performance, the lunge is let’s-try-to-decrease-injury, and hopefully, it will transfer over to maximized performance. But first and foremost, reduce the likelihood of injury. Then we can get into the maximizing performance. Start with three sets of ten. Right now, we’re adding weight, so we’re at three sets of six on each leg, so 12 total.""