# 6 Practice Boredom Part 2

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NOVICE PITCHERS:

Set up a schedule for you and your catcher to work out 3 times a week for about an hour including warm up and down, be sure transportation is available. It is best if the location and time are always the same to develop the routine make sure to consider a backup location for bad weather days. Make sure you see your pitching instructor every week. Tell them your problems, report your improvements and outline your physical condition if it becomes troubling. In the beginning boredom is not too big of a problem because you will see yourself gain accuracy and speed. You will also be taught new pitches which will help keep the workout interesting. At some point (assuming you are 12 or older) you should know how to throw 4 or more pitches. Practice each pitch in a group of maybe 15-20 deliveries looking for accuracy and movement. After you have practiced all of the versions go back to the one that was your worse and do another 15. This should do it for you so finish up with a fastball in the strike zone. Sometime its fun to see if you can knock a glove off the catchers pail (assuming a Mom or Dad is catching you while seated on a pail). Count how many pitches it takes to do this and keep trying to lower the number. Now its time to join a team and get some game pitching time. Find a good rec league and go to try outs. Keep up your practice schedule and DO NOT ASSUME you will get practice time during your team's practices. Soon you will be in your first game which we will discuss later on this season. Finish off the entire season no matter what! After the season is over you must once again ask yourself all the important questions that you first answered. If you still want to go ahead you have become an intermediate pitcher. Now you need to decide if you want to stay at your current level which would include more rec league seasons, possibly all stars and eventually school ball or go deeper into the sport and look for a club or travel ball team try out. In either case practice will lose its excitement and become less a sport and more a job.   We invented a program to make practice not only endurable but somewhat enjoyable. Next week we will show you how it works and what other benefits we found. We are hoping to hear your comments and questions they help us keep stay motivated to add more to the blog!!