Life's busy. After all, we need to play pickleball,
more, pickleball, and even more pickleball.
Today I'm going to show you how to put together a fun and effective practice
plan that's personalized to your game and fits into your busy schedule.
Stay tuned.
Hey, everybody it's CJ Johnson.
Today I'm going to share my step by step template that I use to put together in
my lesson plans as well as my own personalized practice plans.
But before we get to that,
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you'll know when I post a new video every Saturday, productivity expert,
Brian Tracy says that for every minute you spend planning,
you save 10 minutes in execution and that's 1000% return on your energy.
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you more energy before we start writing your practice plan it helps to have a
systematic thought process to build your skills and it starts by understanding
what are your specific strengths and weaknesses.
If you didn't catch the last video, make sure that you click on this link,
go back to that video and download your free pickleball shot inventory that's
going to help you better understand what you do well and where you need to
improve and that's the basis of a good plan.
Now that you've completed your pickleball inventory,
let's break this into three sections, pre-practice, practice, and your follow up.
The first thing you should do as you start to write your plan is consider what's
the purpose of this practice?
What skills do you need to work on and you should get that from your inventory.
You also want to make sure that you consult with your partner so that during
this session you're both getting work on the skills that you need.
A few other questions that you'd like to ask yourself.
How much time do you have to practice?
What equipment do you have or what might you need? Do you need more balls?
Do you have cones? Do you have targets?
Anything that's visual will help you to improve your skills more quickly.
Now that you're starting to put together your practice plan,
you're going to need some drils and the great news is there is a ton of them on
this channel. Make sure that you look down in the show notes.
I have listed out all of the different playlists for the different skills that
you'll want to develop. As you begin to put your plan together,
make sure that you look at the drills, ask yourself,
how much time am I going to spend on each drill?
How physical are these drills at?
Some drills are harder to do physically than others and if you put two or three
of those into a practice session,
you might be exhausted before you get the benefit from practicing.
The last question that you want to answer is how do you determine success and
when you're drilling,
there's three ways it could be you do that drill for a certain amount of time.
You play a game or you count the number of repetitions.
It really doesn't matter which one you use,
but you want to make sure that you know when you've been successful and where
you may need more work.
Now it's time to practice and here are a couple tips to get the most from your
practice session. Make sure that you warm your body up.
You need to be prepared physically and mentally for practice.
Don't stand around during a practice session.
Make sure that you are alert and on the balls of your feet.
Take a break between drills and make sure that you hydrate and take care of your
physical needs. And lastly,
quality is more important than quantity.
I would rather have a solid five to 10 minute practice session where I'm focused
and I'm able to repeat the drill versus a 40 minute practice session where
everything was kind of willy nilly and I wasn't paying any attention to what I
was doing because practice should be fun.
My partner and I love to end the day with skinny singles.
That also gives us an opportunity to take the skills that we just drilled and
put them into a game situation.
Don't forget to end your practice session with the cooldown.
You want to make sure that you bring your heart rate down as well as stretch the
muscles. Your body will definitely thank you. Before you leave the court,
make sure that you and your partner talk about the day, what worked,
what didn't work, did you meet your objectives, what would you change?
And if you're anything like me, you probably need to jot down a couple of notes.
Otherwise you're going to forget it before you get to the next practice session.
All that information will help you to continue to refine what you're doing and
make those sessions even more valuable.
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I'm going to send a planning template as well as one of my own personalized
practice plans and a few extra tips to help you get the most out of your
sessions.
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