Why Apex

Finding what’s limiting you is only half the job. The other half is knowing what to do about it.

Pitching video being reviewed on two monitors

Apex Motion exists because the gap between finding out what's limiting a pitcher and actually doing something about it was where most of the value was being lost.

Who Built It

The people behind the system.

Apex Motion was built by people who have been through the training side of this sport, not by a software team that picked baseball as a market.

The Problem

What existed before, and what it left you with.

None of these are bad products. They just each leave a different part of the job undone.

Apex connects the assessment to what gets trained.

Apex Motion is not a replacement for any of these. We don't measure joint forces, and we don't claim to. What we built is the connection that kept going missing: a structured assessment whose findings carry directly into the training that follows.

The Access Gap

High-level development shouldn’t be all or nothing.

Some pitchers need the full laboratory. Some need daily, hands-on coaching. Both can be incredibly valuable.

But getting useful direction shouldn’t always require travel, a long-term facility commitment, or thousands of dollars.

Apex was built as another way in — structured assessment, clear interpretation, prioritized development needs and individualized training built around the athlete.

What the market can look like.

$150–$1,000

Pitching biomechanics assessment

Across seven publicly listed U.S. pitching-biomechanics evaluation offerings in our current market sample, prices ranged from $150 to $1,000. The sample median was $400.

Current examples that add interpretation, programming or reassessment reach $1,500–$2,000.

Technology, athlete level, interpretation and deliverables vary by provider. This is a current public market sample, not a national average.

~$175–$1,000+ / mo

Structured development

Publicly listed development programs span a wide range depending on coaching frequency, facility access, technology and service level.

$1,050–$1,500 / mo

High-touch 1:1 examples

At the high-touch end of our current sample, programs with multiple individual pitching and strength sessions each week reach four figures per month.

These are not equivalent products. A biomechanics lab can measure things Apex cannot. A coach working with you multiple days each week provides hands-on services Apex does not. The comparison is about the range of access points available to an athlete — not claiming those services are interchangeable.

Examples of what a lab may measure or report

Kinematics Kinetics Joint angular velocity Kinetic-chain sequencing Pelvis / trunk rotation Joint angles

Measurement is only the first step.

Those measurements can be powerful.

The athlete still needs answers to three simpler questions.

  1. What does this mean?
  2. What matters first?
  3. What do I train?

“It’s much cleaner to read than a traditional mocap report.”

Luke Baker · Pitcher

He felt the major mechanical issues were addressed clearly without needing specialized biomechanics terminology to understand the report.

A different way in.

  • $125 Assessment
  • $300 Assessment + Workbook Individualized 12-week throwing, strength, mobility, corrective and arm-care plan.
  • $900 / year Ongoing Development Four assessments + four rebuilt three-month programs. Flexible quarterly option also available.

Assessment. Interpretation. Priorities. Programming.

Apex connects those pieces remotely, giving an athlete a structured place to start without requiring relocation or a full-time facility commitment.

Apex isn’t the lab. It isn’t your pitching coach. It’s the system built to help you understand what may be limiting you and turn that information into what you train next.

How we calculated these figures

Publicly listed U.S. pricing reviewed September 2026. Prices and offerings can change. Providers differ substantially in technology, coaching access, athlete level, facility access, commitment length and included services. Figures shown are illustrative market examples, not a national average.

Apex does not claim these services are equivalent to one another or to Apex Motion. The sample is provided to show the range of access points and commitments available to baseball athletes.

Biomechanics evaluation sample · 7 prices
  • The Throwing Club — Throwing Biomechanics Session3D motion capture · high-speed video · kinetic-chain sequencing · joint angular velocities$150
  • 1845 / MLBU BASE — Prospect Hit or PitchIncludes Trackman and Uplift pitching-biomechanics capture, plus the broader athletic evaluation included in the Prospect tier.Current early-access price; provider also displays a higher regular price. Reviewed September 2026.$249
  • Premier Baseball KC — Motion CaptureMarkerless motion capture · analytics and reports$350
  • BioPrecision — Pitching Advanced AssessmentMoCap, force plate and Trackman reports$400
  • MedStar Health Orioles Pitching LabPhysical assessment · 3D biomechanical analysis · comprehensive report · follow-up consultation$500
  • Wake Forest Pitching Lab — High School & College Amateur Pitching Evaluation$550
  • Maven Virginia — Full biomechanical assessmentReport / Maven Score$1,000
  • Range$150–$1,000
  • Median$400
Comprehensive packages · not in the median

These packages add interpretation, programming or reassessment, so they are kept separate from the seven evaluation-offering prices.

Lower-cost membership Mid-range remote / development

The ARMory remote programs are multi-month subscriptions. Their monthly figures are our calculated equivalents, not advertised month-to-month prices.

Higher-access development
  • Den × FCS — Premier / Elite / Ultimate$350 / $500 / $650/mo
  • Maven EDGERequires an assessment · currently states a 12-month commitment$500 / $650 / $850 / $1,000/mo
High-touch 1:1
  • Guzzi Athletics — Development2x/week 1:1 pitching + 2x/week 1:1 strength$1,050/mo
  • Guzzi Athletics — Elite2x/week 1:1 pitching + 4x/week 1:1 strength$1,500/mo
Intensive in-person

Standard listed prices. Lower promotional pricing was publicly listed when reviewed in September 2026.

Excluded from the numbers

Tread Athletics publicly states that athletes commit to 12 months of guidance, with a one-time assessment fee and annual or monthly payment options. A fixed public price is not listed, so Tread is intentionally excluded from the numerical price ranges.

How It Works

From what you send to what you train.

Five stages, in one direction. Each one only uses what the stage before it could actually establish.

  1. What you send video + mobility + history + context

    Multi-angle pitching video, a mobility screen, and athlete context — training history, throwing status, equipment, schedule and restrictions.

    Pitcher on the mound, filmed from behind — one of the four reference camera angles
  2. What Apex finds supported findings + priorities

    Your delivery is evaluated through the same 8-category pitching assessment framework used for every athlete, with confidence and evidence limits attached.

    The Athlete Performance Blueprint is a readable report: what was found, how confident each finding is, and what couldn't be assessed from the evidence you sent — with findings ranked by what matters most for you, not eight equally-weighted observations.

    Category Status Board page from a sample Athlete Performance Blueprint
  3. What needs to change development objectives

    Each priority becomes a development objective.

  4. What fits you schedule + equipment + constraints

    Each objective narrows the finding-matched library against your own constraints — then supplemental programming fills out the rest of the week.

  5. What you train individualized program

    Sequenced by phase and progression level, delivered day by day — each piece traceable back to the finding that put it there.

    Apex Motion app showing the full phase-based program by week

The step-by-step decision chain is on the homepage. How the two libraries divide the work is below.

The Programming System

Two libraries, two different jobs.

Knowing your top development priorities tells you what to work on. It doesn't tell you what the other four days of the week look like. Apex Motion runs two audited libraries because those are genuinely different problems.

178 Finding-matched interventions
219 Unique supplemental programming options
397 Combined structured options

Interventions tied to your findings

Every entry is mapped to one of the eight assessment categories and carries its own adaptation goal, phase, progression level, transfer rating and cautions. This is the library that connects a supported finding to something you actually do about it.

Everything a real program needs around it

Your development priorities decide what you work on. This library builds the rest of the week around them — the preparation, strength, capacity and health work that turns a set of priorities into a complete program you can actually run.

The two libraries share three entries by name; those are counted once, not twice. The combined figure includes distinct exercises, progressions, variations and equipment or load substitutions — because all of those are things an athlete can actually be given, and a plan that ignores equipment reality isn't individualized.

See the full audited breakdown
Primary — finding-matched · 178
  • Throwing66
  • Strength38
  • Plyometric32
  • Medicine ball28
  • Mobility14

Cross-cut by workbook role — throwing prep, lift prep, power block, corrective work, warm-up, mound transfer and recovery.

Supplemental — general programming · 219
  • Strength & capacity88
  • Mobility & movement prep50
  • Power, speed & deceleration46
  • Joint & tissue health28
  • Conditioning & work capacity10

Joint & tissue health includes arm care and shoulder health, grip and forearm work, and foot and ankle support.

Supplemental, by audited section
  • Lower-body strength & unilateral capacity20
  • Upper-body & scapular capacity20
  • Power, elasticity & speed20
  • Sprint mechanics & acceleration18
  • Dynamic warm-up & movement prep18
  • Posterior chain, hamstring & adductor15
  • Carries & trunk control15
  • Hip mobility12
  • Arm care & shoulder health10
  • Thoracic & upper-back mobility10
  • Shoulder mobility10
  • Upper-body pressing10
  • Conditioning & work capacity10
  • Foot & ankle support10
  • Deceleration & change of direction8
  • Grip & forearm health8
  • Foundational isometrics8

Seventeen audited sections holding 222 entries in total. Three of them also appear in the primary library, so they are counted once rather than twice — leaving 219 unique to this bank.

What's Different

Structure, boundaries, and a test we can fail.

Individually none of these are exotic. Together they're what separates a structured assessment system from a confident opinion.

Same framework

Every athlete, the same eight categories

You are not assessed against whatever stood out that day. The framework is fixed, so two athletes with the same limitation get the same category called the same way.

Evidence boundaries

"Not assessable" is a real answer

Where your footage can't support a finding, the category says so rather than producing a confident guess. Withholding is tracked as its own outcome, not hidden.

Governance

Limits on what can be claimed

Whole classes of output — projected velocity, future ceilings, asserted root causes — are structurally blocked rather than discouraged.

Benchmarked

Tested blind, against independent reports

Assessments were locked before independent biomechanics reports were opened, then scored against them — and never revised afterwards, including when they were wrong.

See How We Validated Apex → Including the failures and the miss we published.
Human Involvement

Where people are in the loop — and where they aren't.

Both halves matter. One makes your assessment better; the other is what makes our benchmark honest.

In production, for your assessment

  • When the governance process flags a serious or major issue on a real athlete's assessment
  • Hands-on review of your own footage by people with athletic, baseball and movement background
  • As an escalation and quality-control step, on cases the system itself marks as needing another look

Excluded from blind benchmark scoring

  • A locked assessment is never revised after the benchmark report is opened — including when it turned out to be wrong
  • No human adjusts a benchmark result after seeing the answer
  • Scoring criteria were written and frozen before the tests they judge were run
Proof

Don't take our word for any of it.

Everything described on this page is visible somewhere else on the site, in its actual form.

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