Pickleball HOW TO Warm Up: Pickleball Practice Routine

so you get to the courts you're all excited and then you get crushed your first game what happened you know you didn't warm up you gotta warm up in pickleball here's a good routine keith valentine take it away man we're talking about practice practice not a game not a game we're talking about practice as allen iverson would say yes we are talking about practice here you go so this is bj heller he's warming up with me now once again this is a warm-up routine to get ready for a game we're only going to be doing about a 15-minute warm-up and the goal of this is just to go through every station in pickleball and just practice getting the ball over getting used to the motions bending the knees a little bit making sure your feet are moving the way they should not trying to win points here not trying to do anything special just really getting in the motions and getting ready to play so you'll notice i'm not hitting directly to him every time i'm moving the ball down the line left to right but i'm not putting it out of reach i'm not trying to beat him on this but i am practicing on where i'm hitting and you know as i get a little bit more warmed up i'll start bending my knees a little bit more i'm 45 i've had a lot of knee surgeries and so i'm a bit stiff anytime i start playing so i start out just like it looks kind of stiff not trying to do anything special going through the motions and you know it's always best to have your knees bent you know this can also be a good quad workout for you you can bend your knees and then i'm moving over to the next station and starting to do cross-court things and once again i'm not trying to do anything special but i am moving the ball we're not trying to hit in the same exact spot every time we're trying to hit four hands we're trying to hit back hands i'm trying to hit to his left side his right side and making sure that my feet work my footwork is appropriate meaning that if he hits it deep i'm stepping back i'm trying to keep the ball in front of me and i'm getting my body in the right position and then also i'm working on watching the ball all the way to the paddle that's one thing i never do now i'm going to speed this up as keith and bj progress through all the stages you can see i want you to see every stage they go to they switch sides that go in diagonal the other way and as keith said that watching the ball hit the paddle they're bending their knees and moving their quads they're getting ready you don't want to pull anything you know i'm getting old i'm 36. so you can see them progress through the stages it's so important to warm up if you lose that first wreck game and get crushed you lose confidence you really struggle you're probably going to have a bad day they progress to doing drops they do vertically now they're doing diagonal and this is so important dropping is so important pickleball you all know that it's not like i have to tell you so bj comes to the net and now keith can do drops as well and let me kick it back to keith okay the last thing we're gonna do here is we're just going to hit some drives full swings not trying to crush the ball just getting through the full motion making sure my body's in the right balance getting my foot you know my weight on the front foot so i'm following through making sure i'm coiling up making sure i'm following all the way through that's the goal this is just a warm up to get you in the mode to where you can play your first game keith thanks so much man and pickleball lovers thank you so much for subscribing we all love this game so much and i will keep the videos coming