2 day tournaments - running out of gas on day 2

logicsynthes · Mar 23, 2015

I am not promoting anything here, but mostly it has to do with conditioning. Athletes doing something like in the following link, do very well in the late day games or 3rd or 4th game on Sunday. You can easily see the difference by just watching them on the field. Again, I am not promoting this. But my daughter does this at least 3 times a week during the off season and once during the season. I am sure there are many other places teach similar stuff. They make you work very hard for an hour with 4 small water breaks.
Youth Total Performance | Parisi Speed School

FastPitchCat · Mar 25, 2015

last weekend was interesting. DD seemed pumped up both days, but started to complain about a headache when we were warming up sunday. it was in the 60's, her team had to make the 8:30 game on sunday since they lost saturday, so it was up at 5:30.
still nothing conclusive, but i'm taking notes

Me_and_my_big_mouth · Mar 25, 2015

Ken Krause said:
Since you say the lethargic behavior happens first game on Sunday, any chance it might be mental? Sounds like she plays with intensity on Saturday. But then the next morning she has trouble cranking it back up until the second game.

Kids at that age have short attention spans - especially these days with the constant stimulation happening all around them. Perhaps her brain feels like it went all-out the day before and now has temporarily lost interest. The interest then gets sparked somewhere toward the end of the first game and then she picks it up again.

If that might be the case - and I'm not saying it is or it isn't, but something to consider - awareness is probably the biggest factor to getting past it. She may need to do something to get herself pumped up. Could be a particular song she likes, or some self-talk, or just a little quiet time at the field to get the motor running before she starts into warm-ups. Something to consider.

This is exactly what happens with my dd. We've actually commented that Sunday mornings the team plays half-asleep. They usually wake up somewhere around the 4th inning. Mine is 13, and we have been known to crank obnoxious music to counteract this!

chinamigarden · Mar 26, 2015

If your dd pitches 2-3 innings a game. It can't conditioning. I has to be either sleep, food, hydration. You might want to journal what she does during a tourney weekend, food logs, water count, sleep... See what she is actually doing. What the problem is might jump right out at you.

Second to that is why is a pitcher who is not pitching a whole lot of innings icing? I don't understand that at all. If there is no pain why ice?

FastPitchCat · Mar 26, 2015

chinamigarden said:
If your dd pitches 2-3 innings a game. It can't conditioning. I has to be either sleep, food, hydration. You might want to journal what she does during a tourney weekend, food logs, water count, sleep... See what she is actually doing. What the problem is might jump right out at you.

Second to that is why is a pitcher who is not pitching a whole lot of innings icing? I don't understand that at all. If there is no pain why ice?

I make it a point for DD to ice regardless if she pitches one inning or 10 innings. I will not wait for 'pain' before icing. If there is pain, there is already a problem.

riseball · Mar 26, 2015

Out in Left Field said:
Ice is for inflammation and if there isn't any inflammation, injury or intense exercise going on, ice does not do anything.

Effects of Ice After Exercise

That sounds exactly like pitching. What is the point you were attempting to make? That you should ice after pitching?

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