Comments on: Softball practice/running routine? http://homebattingcage.net/softball-practicerunning-routine/ Home batting cage Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:48:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Coach Lia http://homebattingcage.net/softball-practicerunning-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-454 Coach Lia Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:48:20 +0000 #comment-454 First of all plan what you want to do for the day and how many hours do you intend to practice. There would be days that you will focus on defense and the others on offense but if you want everything equal base it on how many hours you plan to practice for. When you practice make sure all the skills are there. Fielding, batting and baserunning. I would recommend to have time for conditioning as well. alot 15-20mins for conditioning drills. As for running drills, fortunately for softball we don't need to run a mile in a game. to improve on your running. try running in sprints. do several sprints from home to first at 100% effort and have ample rests in between, after every sprints rest for a minute. do 8-10 sprints. you can also run from home to home at 100% but rest for around 2-3mins. do this for 5 sets. This is what you call interval training. do this 3 times a week for 8 weeks..you'll see how your stamina improves. First of all plan what you want to do for the day and how many hours do you intend to practice. There would be days that you will focus on defense and the others on offense but if you want everything equal base it on how many hours you plan to practice for. When you practice make sure all the skills are there. Fielding, batting and baserunning. I would recommend to have time for conditioning as well. alot 15-20mins for conditioning drills.

As for running drills, fortunately for softball we don’t need to run a mile in a game. to improve on your running. try running in sprints. do several sprints from home to first at 100% effort and have ample rests in between, after every sprints rest for a minute. do 8-10 sprints. you can also run from home to home at 100% but rest for around 2-3mins. do this for 5 sets. This is what you call interval training. do this 3 times a week for 8 weeks..you’ll see how your stamina improves.

]]> By: Brian http://homebattingcage.net/softball-practicerunning-routine/comment-page-1/#comment-455 Brian Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:48:20 +0000 #comment-455 I don't know too much about the softball, the running though I may be able to help you with. You will be out of breath the first times you do it. You should probably consider practicing it for a while. The increase in speed will come in time. One suggestion would be to hydrate yourself. drink plenty of water. Do that around 1hr-30min. before you run. Don't eat or drink too much before you run or else you will cramp up really bad. Hope I helped. Good luck with softball. I don’t know too much about the softball, the running though I may be able to help you with. You will be out of breath the first times you do it. You should probably consider practicing it for a while. The increase in speed will come in time. One suggestion would be to hydrate yourself. drink plenty of water. Do that around 1hr-30min. before you run. Don’t eat or drink too much before you run or else you will cramp up really bad. Hope I helped. Good luck with softball.

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