Warm Up Ideas
3. Baseball Ladder
Organise players in pairs, sitting in two
lines facing each other so that feet are
touching the person opposite (straight
legs). Each pair sits two metres apart.
The coach moves down the line giving
each pair a name in baseball terms.
The coach then calls out terms one at a
time. Pairs named by that term, stand
up and down the line, stepping over
the other players legs, before running
around cones placed 5 metres in front
of the lines. Players then run back down
the outside to cones placed at the back
of the lines, before returning over other
players legs back to their original position
before sitting down again. The coach
alternates baseball terms until all players
have participated. If the coach calls
out “Baseball Ladder”, the first pair in
the line run. Once they return to their
original position, the 2nd pair run, and
so on, until all have run.
4. Sideways race
Groups of four hold hands and face the coach. Each group lines up behind a group of 4 in
front. The coach stands in front of the groups and gives a signal indicating a direction
(e.g. left or right). The groups keep holding hands while they try to run to the side and the
person nearest that side touches a line on the ground or cone marker. The group then runs
back to the opposite side and then back to the middle, all the while holding hands.
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