Are you trying to find a way to make baseball practice more fun for your youth teams? Here are two youth baseball coaching tips that have livened up practices for us and the payoff has been terrific.
I started having the boys run the bases at the end of each practice and timed them to monitor their progress. It seems like a very small thing, but the boys always looked forward to trying to beat their previous time, and they improved a lot over the course of the season. I’m convinced that this was responsible for turning many would-be singles into doubles, and doubles into triples, and even a couple of ITP homers. It’s certainly not a revolutionary idea, but has been very effective with our younger players and a great way to close out a baseball practice.
We also do a “base race” where we split into two teams as fairly as possible and have one group start at 2b, the other at home, and then have them run a relay around the base path. It takes a few times to get the teams selected so as to keep it close, but once we got it right the race outcomes were pretty even.
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