A Weekly Baseball Practice Plan Template for Youth Players

Most kids don't get better because there's no plan, just a bat leaning in the garage and good intentions. A simple, reusable weekly template fixes that. Here's a template you can print, fill in, and run all season, plus how to adjust it as your player grows and the season changes.

The four pieces of any good plan

A practice plan doesn't need to be complicated to work. It needs four things, every time:

• Days. Which days you'll actually practice. Be honest about your week. Three days you'll keep beats five you'll skip.
• Blocks. What each session is about, hitting, throwing, or fielding. One block per session at younger ages.
• Time. How long. Short is the point. 15 to 25 minutes keeps attention high and reps clean.
• One focus. The single thing you're working on inside that block. Not "hitting," but "staying balanced through the finish." Specific, and only one.

That last piece is where most plans fall apart. "Work on hitting" isn't a focus, it's a category. A focus is one concrete thing a kid can hold in their head for the whole session. Everything else on the template exists to protect that one focus and give it enough reps to stick.

The template

Here's the reusable weekly grid. Copy it into a notes app or print it and stick it on the fridge. The blocks below are a starting shape for an in-season week; swap days to fit your schedule.

Notice the hitting focus repeats Monday and Friday. That's intentional. A swing change needs the same focus more than once to take hold. Don't fill Monday and Friday with two different swing thoughts, use the same one, so the reps compound.

How to fill in the "one focus" column

The template is only as good as what you write in that column. Pick the focus from what you see going wrong in games, not from a random video. A quick method:

• Watch a couple of games like a scout. Look for the pattern that keeps repeating, not the one bad at-bat.
• Write it in plain words. "Late on fastballs." "Throws sail high." You don't need the technical name to work on it.
• Choose the one that costs the most, and leave the rest for later. One focus per two-to-three-week block.
• Reassess every couple of weeks. When the focus is handled, or clearly isn't the biggest issue anymore, pick the next one and rewrite the column.

If you keep the structure fixed and only change the focus, the plan basically runs itself. The kid always knows the shape of the week; the only thing that evolves is what they're chasing.

How to adjust by age and season

One template, dialed up or down. The structure never changes, just the volume and ambition.

For a concrete in-season version aimed at a 10-year-old, the at-home 10U plan fills this template in for you. And if you're not sure how much is too much, the how much should my kid practice guide covers the volume question directly.

Where Fungo does the filling-in

This template works with nothing but a pen. The genuinely hard parts are choosing the right focus and knowing the drill that trains it for your kid's age, and then remembering to change it once they've improved.

That's what Fungo automates. You describe the problem in plain language, and it generates a weekly plan on exactly this structure, with the focus chosen for you and real coach drills dropped into each block. As your player improves, it auto-advances the plan to the next focus, so you're never running a stale week or guessing what's next. Same template, filled in and kept current for you.