Practicing Under Pressure

There is an important part to practicing under pressure. The more intense the practice the easier it will be for your athlete to play on game day. I like to define it as, practicing in a similar manner closely mimicking the games. One of the most important ways of doing this is to create an atmosphere of intensity and pressure in practice. Practicing under pressure forces players to focus, to use adversity, and learn to handle everything that may come their way.

I want to touch base on controlling mental mistakes. Baseball slow and leisurely pace, can be dangerous thing for those aspiring to win. If idleness finds its ways into practice, this lack of intensity will contribute to mental mistakes. Players that simply go thrue the motions in practice will quickly find that the game is a different story. The ability to excel at unexpected events in a game or other pressure situations comes from that moment- to- moment intensity achieved in practice.