Softball Training - In-Season Practices

School is now done and we are now busier than ever with softball.

Every weekends and most week nights are busy with softball either playing, traveling, or practicing a little.

The question is…

At this time of the year, what should you be practicing?

I will start by answering what you should absolutely positively NOT do…

The ONE thing you need to AVOID doing is to implement any  significant technical changes.

Learning takes time to integrate and doing technical changes at this time of the year will HURT your game, not help it.

Resist (even if it is really tempting when things aren't going well) doing significant technical changes and keep for until after the season.

Keep the technical changes for after the season.

At the current moment, you've got to go to war with what you've got!

The focus of practices at this time of year should be on:

1) maintaing your skills sharp
2) finding your timing / rythmn / flow
3) making some tweaking or very minor technical adjustments to
optimize execution (like last minute adjustments on a race car)
4) perfect defensive and offensive strategies / tactics
5) work on deficiencies (what has not worked well in games lately)
6) prepare for a specific opponents

You have limited time to practice so you need to focus on the most important things and make sure you keep your game sharp to be at your best in game.

Also, another very important point about in-season practices is that the focus should be on quality, not quantity.  The last thing you want is for your practices to affect your recovery. Keep things short but intense.

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Coach Marc
"Your softball Peak Performance Coach"

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