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There's always time for baseball practice
Find 15-20 minutes each day to run through some drills specific to the positions you play. Start with the warm-up then move on to which every drills are important to where you play.

The other thing every player should do at least once a week and the day BEFORE (not of) each game... Check/tighten/repair your glove and cleats.

Dynamic Warm-up
Works as a quick team routine in practice and pre-game, and great on your own.

To warm up quickly, you run through a quick sequence of actions like those you do on the fielding during a game. Some call these "dry" moves (meaning no bat or ball) others call them shadow moves.  You do each action one  right after the other - pause only at the end of the sequence - and you repeat the sequence perhaps 10 times - until you feel warm and loose.
  • Full stride swing and follow-through
  • Bunt swing with leg pivot
  • Field a grounder in front
  • Come up throwing
  • Fielding stab to right and throw (with or w/out cross-over step)
  • Fielding stab to left and straight-arm toss (or reverse left & right)
  • Reach over your throwing shoulder for a flyball catch
  • Reach over your glove shoulder for a catch
  • And repeat the sequence
Outfielder Routine
  • Grab & Grip - scoop roller and find the throwing grip - on the run. Also balls in sun.
  • Jog and wind sprints
  • Free weights - work both curls - slowly to full extension (see Training section).
Middle Infield Routine
  • Wall Bounces (tennis or rubber ball)
  • Heel deflections (keep the ball out of the webbing) - to develop quick transfers to throwing hand, and soft hands (cradle the ball).
  • Footwork - low pivots.
  • Weights - for thighs, lower back, ankles.
Hot Corner Routine (3rd)
  • Wall Bounces (tennis or rubber ball) - with glove and in tight off body.
  • Footwork - jump rope.
  • Weights - curls - slow and extended, also work shoulders.
First base Routine
  • Wall Bounces (tennis or rubber ball) - normal fielding and simulated coverage - feet against board or brick.
  • Exercise - leg strengthening, stretching.
Catcher Routine
  • Wall Bounces (tennis or rubber ball) - with glove and in tight off body.
  • Pop Ups & Scoops - off slow rollers and dead balls, come up to goal post.
  • Exercises - wrist curls, squats.
  • Also check your team-issued or personal catching gear at least once a week
Hitting Routine
  • Balance-Load-Step-Pivot - Bat behind back. Use a mirror, focus head and eyes on an object in the strike zone - step in, step out, shoulders level.
  • Top-hand power. Back knee on ground. choke bat, swing through zone. Dry or soft toss.
  • Lead-hand power. Standing position, from high launch (clubhead tilted forward) work on getting the clubhead into the zone as quickly as possible - elliptical swing.
  • In the Zone. Dry swings - in, out, low (bring your body down, adjust back angle, assess your strike zone).
  • Pyramid System - dry swings or in the batting cage, u8sing different weight bats.
Running Routine
  • Lead-off step; the pivot and stride, the arc, and slide. (Exercises like the carioca can help with this.)
  • Slide Leg: Crab-walk position, remove hands. (On the first time through you learn which leg tucks under more naturally; after that you simply practice.)
Pitching Routine
This is outlined in greater detail under Pitching section.

Ideal 5 Days...
  • Team Practice / Endurance  / Sidework Day / Light Day / Game Day
  • Side Work  - 2 days after / 2 days before - Set routine, pitch count. (60-70%)
  • Remember your post-set flexibility stretching and jog. (10 min. ice, 20 min. run.)
  • Light day exercise - stretching, aerobic work out, leg exercises only.

Note to players & coaches: This was one of the earliest and central purposes of Webball. We recognized that no players, no teams, get enough practice time. Until you reach elite team status at senior age groups, it's unlikely you can be a part of team practices every day. But every day effort is what it takes to get really good at any sport.
So that's why we came up with solo ball! The idea is simple but effective. Some of these you can do inside your home, or the back or front yards, or a local playground or school yard. You don't have to be on a ballfield to play baseball!

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