Baseball drills at home for 15 year olds

At a glance

At 15

95 baseball drills the app opens for a 15 year old work at home, across 6 skills.

How long

One home session of about 50 minutes; SSTracker never plans more than 75 minutes for a 15 year old.

How often

At most 5 training days a week, with rest days between. Organized sport in all: no more hours a week than the child's age (NATA), so at most 15 hours for a 15 year old, with two rest days a week.

What you need

Most used: balls (31 of the 95 drills), glove (28), bat (21), net (12), baseballs (9), bases (8), protective screen (8), soft balls (8). 5 drills need nothing but space. 42 are for two, and a parent can be the partner.

Safe at home

One child and one parent in a room, garage or yard. Never tackling, contact, diving or head-first falls, no stunts or loaded lifting, and nothing that needs a coach, rink, pool or court. Stop when anything hurts.

95 at-home drills

Baseball drills for 15 year olds to do at home

Every drill below is one the app opens for a 15 year old and one that works at home: a room, garage or yard, one parent as the partner, no venue. Each drill's page has the steps, a diagram where the setup can be drawn, three ways to make it a game and a log to print.

arm strength

Arm Strength

• Throwing on the RunAges 14 and up · 12 min
• Arm Path ThrowsAges 11 and up · 10 min
• Long Toss Build-UpAges 11 and up · 15 min

base running

Base Running

• Reading a Ball in the DirtAges 14 and up · 12 min
• Steal Start ReactionsAges 14 and up · 12 min
• Timed Base SprintsAges 14 and up · 12 min

fielding

Fielding

• Backhand and Forehand PicksAges 11 and up · 12 min
• Drop Step on Fly BallsAges 11 and up · 12 min
• Field and Shuffle ThrowAges 11 and up · 12 min

hitting

Hitting

• Hit-and-Run ContactAges 14 and up · 12 min
• Line Drive WindowAges 14 and up · 12 min
• Mixed-Speed Front TossAges 14 and up · 15 min

pitching

Pitching

• Planned Bullpen SessionAges 14 and up · 15 min
• Change-Up Grip IntroAges 11 and up · 10 min
• Flat-Ground Fastball CommandAges 11 and up · 12 min

A 50-minute session

A home baseball session for a 15 year old

A warm-up, 3 drills and a cool-down, 50 minutes in all. Do it up to 5 days a week, with rest days between.

1. 1Baseball Warm-Up, Ages 14 and UpA 12-minute moving warm-up for baseball players 14 and up: moving stretches, strength, single-leg control, cuts and build-up runs, then baseball moves at practice speed.12 min
2. 2Throwing ProgressionPoint your front shoulder, finish across your body.10 min
3. 3Base Running SprintsExplode out low, run through the bag.12 min
4. 4Band Shoulder CareSlow and controlled. Light band.8 min
5. 5Baseball Cool-Down Stretches, Ages 14 and UpA 8-minute cool-down for baseball players 14 and up after training: stretches for the legs, hips, shoulders and wrists, each held 20 to 30 seconds, never to pain.8 min

At 15

What changes in baseball training at 15

From 15, a home session can run to 75 minutes and the plan can have 5 training days a week, up from 60 minutes and 5 days at 14.

The app opens the same 95 at-home drills at 15 as at 14; the ones below are a different selection from that list.

Organized sport in all: no more hours a week than the child's age (NATA), so at most 15 hours for a 15 year old, with two rest days a week.

The week

Fitting baseball into a week at 15

At 15 the limit is 15 hours of organized sport a week. If you count home sessions against it to be safe, 5 sessions of 50 minutes is 4.17 hours, which leaves 10.83 for team practice and games. Even 5 days at the app's longest, 75 minutes, is 6.25 hours.

The research behind it

• Ages 13 to 15 are the "specializing years", after the sampling years of 6 to 12.

  Côté and Vierimaa 2014

• Organized sport should total no more hours a week than the child's age in years, with two rest days a week.

  NATA youth sport specialization recommendations

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