Do y'all believe in having the same warm-up protocol each day, or do you mix it up some? Your thoughts.....
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Kind of depends on what you consider as your warmup....we start with a dynamic warmup. Hi knees, hi knee crossover, karioca, high knee karioca, and some additional plyos.
We dont throw until about 45 minutes into practice. Now our throwing warmup starts at 20 ft on one knee, then backs up to 45, 90, 120. Kids are in athletic stance moving to each throw, simluating our 2-step release on every catch, then regroup and throw (at 90 feet and remaining until we bring it in to 45 ft to end we catch and immediate 2-step release to throw). By the time we finish our kids have a good lather and are a little winded.
After our dynamic warmup we have Var/JV on field working baserunning at all bases with a hitter executing a hit and run. All runners working reads (r1 steal/H&R, r2 gb behind, in front, tagging on fly, reading ball in gaps, r3 contact play/sac fly, hitter gets one pitch h&r) We time our guys running to first and post at end of practice (accountability for hustle. can't run a 4.2 and 4.7 and say you hustled). At same time freshman are on side field working 4 bunts, then we switch.
After this we go to individual defense, team defense, situations. (Bullpens being run during all of this)
More than you asked for but was unclear as to "warmup".
We dont throw until about 45 minutes into practice. Now our throwing warmup starts at 20 ft on one knee, then backs up to 45, 90, 120. Kids are in athletic stance moving to each throw, simluating our 2-step release on every catch, then regroup and throw (at 90 feet and remaining until we bring it in to 45 ft to end we catch and immediate 2-step release to throw). By the time we finish our kids have a good lather and are a little winded.
After our dynamic warmup we have Var/JV on field working baserunning at all bases with a hitter executing a hit and run. All runners working reads (r1 steal/H&R, r2 gb behind, in front, tagging on fly, reading ball in gaps, r3 contact play/sac fly, hitter gets one pitch h&r) We time our guys running to first and post at end of practice (accountability for hustle. can't run a 4.2 and 4.7 and say you hustled). At same time freshman are on side field working 4 bunts, then we switch.
After this we go to individual defense, team defense, situations. (Bullpens being run during all of this)
More than you asked for but was unclear as to "warmup".
I believe in having the same warmup every day. Its building a routine. A routine is the brain's comfort zone. Like having the same routine every morning. If you miss something, alot of times you are out of sorts for the rest of the day. However when your team is on a skid or in a funk, you have to mix it up. Change some things to take their minds off of what they've been doing or how they've been performing in the past whether or not it has anything to do with the skid or slump.
I like to mix it up every couple of weeks regardless of the routine. Not drastic changes but small enough that you don't get bored or so routine that you don't take the drills as seriously. Many of the static stretches and warm up exercises accomplish the same thing. it's just good to switch it up.
