Fun Tools for Improving Your Athletes

[BigSkyHi]

Does anyone have fun tools they use for their athletes improve their athleticism? Attached one I like..

- Improve Hand Eye Coordination

The link to the chart is available here: = https://zhealtheducation.com/episode-114-improve-eye-hand-coordination/

 

[BigSkyHi]

Here is another one that some of ours members have liked in other posts.

- Balance exercise and training. Improve your balance with VOR drills

Balance exercises. Train your VOR to improve balance. Chart = http://zhealtheducation.com/docs/VOR_Chart.pdf

 

[chinamigarden]

I taught my son how to juggle. When he was 13/14 he got pretty good at it. Joined a club and learned more then I could teach him. Is it coincedence that was when he became a better fielder and hitter? I don’t think so.

 

[Rolling Hard]

Does anyone have fun tools they use for their athletes improve their athleticism? Attached one I like..

- Improve Hand Eye Coordination

Have come up with any ways to use this for softball?

 

[BigSkyHi]

Have come up with any ways to use this for softball?

I just have them do it for a minute before the start of practice. Just gets the brain and the body communicating.

 

[_MIA_]

Does anyone have fun tools they use for their athletes improve their athleticism?

Yup, my 10 YO doesn't have a cellphone..

 

[Rolling Hard]

I just have them do it for a minute before the start of practice. Just gets the brain and the body communicating.

He demonstrates how he can use it for boxers. I am thinking and going to try forehand , backhand and linedrive. This is great stuff. Think maybe his claim to 3 to 5 inch improvement in vertical jump maybe slightly exaggerated. LOL

 

[_MIA_]

Here is my (just turned) 2 YO doing a drill I call "playing outside". Kind of "out of the box" but many of us who grew up in 70's and 80's did this often (minus Mom using her cellphone to video us..thank God ) :

 

[ANNASDAD]

Two...........man that seems like a lifetime ago! I'd actually like to go back to mine being that age again, for a couple of hours! I got started late, didn't get married until I was 35, had Anna at 36, she's 18 now, do the math. Now if she was 2 and I was 30, oh yeah I'd do it again!

pattar, I completely understand why you're not too lovable at times!

And yes, playing outside was the only drill I knew growing up, more kids should try it. Skinned up knees and elbows build character, there is no better teacher than a little blood and pain! Kids today have no idea how tough Mercurochrome & Merthiolate will make you! Back in my day when you wrecked your bike you washed it off in the creek or with the garden hose, you didn't let mom know you were bleeding, mine was evil, she would run to the bathroom to grab one of those tiny little bottles of liquid lava! I swear it made her happy to set any wounds I had on fire, you had to pour rubbing alcohol behind it just to cool it down! All while she smiled, man I miss her!

 

[_MIA_]

Two...........man that seems like a lifetime ago! I'd actually like to go back to mine being that age again, for a couple of hours! I got started late, didn't get married until I was 35, had Anna at 36, she's 18 now, do the math. Now if she was 2 and I was 30, oh yeah I'd do it again!

Well I had Marcela (now 10) when I was 34 (almost 35) and also have a 2 YO and 5 YO (you ever see somebody throwing BP with a walker..well just wait about 15 years and I will post one for you.. ) . The 2 YO and 5 YO are easy-peasey compared to the 10 YO

Edit: Not coincidentally, the 10 YO is basically a mini-me personality wise..