I’ve gotten a whole bunch of requests for football conditioning drills over the past few days. Here are two ideas that Oly, one of my subscribers, sent to me. Keep ‘em coming!
From Oly…
I have a couple of youth football drills for you. One is pretty old but a good one, where the kids seem to lose track that they are running wind sprints. We call it Sharks and Minnows we have cones placed 10 yards by 20 yards, and one kid starts in the middle (shark) with the remaining kids (minnows) in a line at one end. The minnows run from one line to the next while the Sharks try to tackle them. If a player is tackled then he joins the player in the middle and becomes a shark. The game goes back and forth until all minnow are tackled. This football drill is three fold it works conditioning, tackling/pursuit angles, and tackle avoidance, but most of all the kids love the game atmosphere of it.
The second football drill is something I made up on the fly but works well for new kids into pads for the first time or after an extended layoff period. I call it WWF tag team matches–take 4 cones and set them into a 10 yard square, have the kids pair up into teams.
One team vs another in a 4 minute takedown match (a player is tackled or wrestled to the ground and then let back up. Each team has one member in the box and one member out of the box, team members can switch (tag out) as many times as they wish. The team with the most takedowns wins and the other teams observing will keep track of the takedown counts. This drill works on conditioning (because 4 min is a lot longer than people think), as well as moving on the ground or on your feet with pads on, which if you haven’t had pads on ever or for awhile at least is a big challenge. This drill also works on tackling/tackle avoidance.
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