What happens when a college pitcher who struggled with speed dedicates 16 years to cracking the code on velocity, health, and human movement?

Scott Haase, known in baseball circles as “The Velocity Doctor,” did not start out as a natural. He was a left-handed pitcher in college who had to work for every mile per hour on the radar gun. That personal struggle became the seed of something much bigger. After spending years studying movement, traveling the country to learn from coaches and physical therapists, and working with over 2,000 athletes across five continents, Scott built Healthy Below (short for “Health First Velocity”) into one of the most results-driven pitching programs in the game.

His wife Lora is now by his side as CEO, and together they are building not just a business, but a movement rooted in a simple belief: you do not have to destroy your body to throw hard.

The Moment Everything Changed

Like a lot of great business ideas, Scott’s came from watching someone else do the thing he did not think was possible.

In 2014, the travel baseball organization he was coaching with brought in a nationally known pitching expert for a three-day camp. The organization paid $10,000 for the experience. Scott showed up with a notepad and did not put it down for three days. He wrote down every drill, every topic, every minute of how the event was organized, where the projector sat, how the seats were arranged, when the coach stopped talking and switched gears.

“I said I’m gonna do this one day,” Scott recalled, “because I didn’t know it existed.”

That moment cracked something open. He had been coaching in bits and pieces since he was 12 years old, teaching a neighbor kid what his older brothers had taught him, but he had never seen it as a real career. Suddenly it was.

Building Slow, Then Building Fast

What followed was not an overnight success story. For years after that 2014 revelation, Scott was juggling five or six W-2s at a time: coaching at a high school, running a travel organization, doing personal training, teaching pitching lessons for $25 an hour with a client list of four to seven kids. He was working six or seven days a week and bringing home between $5,000 and $10,000 a year.

Lora, who was teaching at the time, was patient through all of it, though she will be the first to say she did not always fully understand the vision.

“He knew because he had seen it,” she said. “He could see it and you can’t unsee it. I didn’t know, so I just kind of trusted him.”

The turning point came around 2019 and 2020, when Scott finally committed to going online. He gave himself a personal challenge: post 25 days in a row on Twitter through December, sharing one new pitching assessment idea each day. The accountability of that challenge pulled him forward and helped him start to see that what he knew was genuinely valuable and genuinely different from what everyone else was teaching.

The Health First Philosophy

Most pitching coaches tell athletes the same thing: throw more, work harder, repeat the drill until it clicks. Scott spent years watching that approach produce plateaus and injuries. His program takes the opposite stance.

“There’s no one else talking about health,” he said. “They always say you gotta throw harder, throw harder, throw harder, and then everyone gets hurt. We say health first, and then we’re also gonna get the velocity.”

The foundation of his system is something deceptively simple: the spine. Where most coaches focus on limb positioning, telling players exactly where to put their hand, their elbow, their front arm, and their stride foot, Scott teaches athletes to think about the spine first. The idea is that wherever the spine goes, everything else follows.

“Where the spine is in space completely dictates everything you do,” he explained. “Your posture, your center of gravity, whether you can twist fast or flex efficiently. Whereas most coaches teach what I call limb dominant cues, and the kids look super robotic.”

He uses a basketball analogy to make it click. A basketball spinning perfectly upright on its axis moves easily and effortlessly. Tilt it even one degree and it slows, wobbles, and eventually falls. Pitchers are the same way. True balance and a well-oriented spine allow the body to rotate with power and ease. Throw that alignment off and no amount of arm speed drills will compensate.

Results in Minutes, Not Years

One of the things that sets Scott’s program apart is how quickly athletes feel the difference.

“We can plug and play based on just a few things and have a player within five throws or five minutes completely unlock something they’ve been working on for five years,” he said.

Even onboarding calls tell the story. Lora described moments where Scott would come back from a 10-minute intake conversation and say a new athlete had already felt something click. That kind of early result is not accidental. It comes from nearly two decades of simplifying the same core principles down to their most teachable form.

“I have a degree in elementary education,” Scott said. “Basically a degree in making things very simple. And just 17 years of being obsessed with this one thing.”

The program works remotely through video intake assessments. Athletes film themselves doing nine different movement tests, upload the footage, and Scott’s team uses those tests to understand how each person’s hips are oriented and how their body naturally wants to move. From there, the coaching cues are tailored to that individual. One athlete might be told to take their spine slightly left through their delivery. Another goes right. The instruction is simple, but it is specific to how their body works.

Beyond Baseball

The principles Scott teaches are not limited to pitching. He has seen the same ideas transform golf swings, and he will stop at a graduation party to demonstrate if the opportunity arises.

At a family event, Scott spent about five minutes talking with Lora’s uncle, a man in his 60s whose golf drive had been fading for years. He walked him through the same balance and spine orientation concepts he uses with pitchers. The next day, Lora’s uncle texted to say he had gone to the driving range and added 30 yards to his drive.

Lora’s sister had a similar experience. After Scott ran her through a hip profile assessment and explained how she should be orienting her swing based on her mobility, she went to a golf event and won the longest drive competition for women.

The pattern holds because the body works the same way whether you are throwing a baseball or swinging a club. Rotation, timing, and a centered spine are the constants.

The Partner Who Made It Real

For most of the years Scott was building the business, Lora was teaching and raising their two young kids. She supported what he was doing, but she was not in it as a business partner. Scott tried to pull her in for years and eventually decided the best thing he could do was stop pushing.

“I finally said I need to pump the brakes and let her do her own thing,” he said. “And then slowly but surely she started coming around.”

The shift accelerated after they attended a business event together in January. Lora saw the community, the structure, and the possibility of what the business could become with the right team behind it. Within a week, she was in.

“I can see it now,” she said. “Working toward this has been a reason to get up really early every morning and crack open the laptop.”

Lora is now stepping into the CEO role, taking on more responsibilities every day, and the effect on the business has been immediate. Scott credits her presence not just with faster growth but with better decision-making across the board.

“My ability to make decisions faster with more confidence has just gone through the roof since she joined,” he said.

Faith, Focus, and What Comes Next

When asked for the best advice they could share, both Scott and Lora came back to the same theme: faith and focus.

Lora’s take was direct. “Where you put your focus is where you’re going to grow. We’ve shifted our focus a lot this past year and everything we have talked about is starting to come into our life.”

Scott went deeper. He talked about years of drifting from faith, of unconsciously looking for everything wrong with it rather than what it could offer. Lora’s honesty with him about that drift was, as he put it, the figurative slap in the face he needed.

“Your worries and your fears are just a cover-up for your lack of faith,” he said, referencing a message he had been sitting with recently. “You think you’re bigger than the universe. But you don’t have control over it. Whatever’s gonna happen is gonna happen. So let go and believe it’s gonna work out.”

For 2026, the focus is on their summer immersive program, now in its fifth year, where college athletes move to train with Scott four days a week for six to seven hours a day over the summer. Results from that program have been some of the most dramatic the business has produced. Growing the team and continuing to bring Lora deeper into leadership are the other priorities.

The business that started with $25 lessons and a handful of kids is now reaching athletes across five continents. The couple that started building it in the middle of a chaotic 2014, with five jobs between them and very little money, now runs a company that has changed thousands of careers.

About me:

I am currently a Master Facilitator for The Elliott Group in addition to being on the board of advisors for our Cultural Transformation Department in ELLIOTT ARMY.

With over 14 years of client service experience, I have held substantial leadership roles in the automotive industry. I’m also an accredited coach, a writer, a speaker, and a triathlon finisher. To contact me for engagements, you can reach me at [email protected].

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