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We did something during spring football practice that we hadn’t tried before.   It proved to be quite successful in getting our kids loose, motivated, and focused for the next couple of hours.   We call it our “Agility Drills.”

Agility Drills
1. First thing when we get out on the field is our Dynamic Stretching (sideline to sideline on the yard lines–10 players across).

After this period our players and myself rally to the middle of the field for a “quick” word and then we break to six stations (manned by a coach).

The stations are varied and go about 1:00 min. to 1:10 at which time the whistle or horn blows and the players (10-15) at each station huddle, break and sprint to the next station about 15 yards apart (all six are within the goal line to 50 yard line in a circular configuration – – so we can do this as a pre-game routine as well).

Six stations that we began with are:
1) In and Outs (with popsickle bags on ground creating short tunnels — no more than four or five tunnels,
2) 1 in a hole/2 in a hole,
3) Cone Box or Michigan cone drill,
4) Directional Drill,
5) Monkey Rolls,
6) Foot/Jump/Run Agility Drill.

These drills can change to suit what your staff wants to get out of this.   Some of these drills were utilized in our Individual Every Day Drills (EDDs) with our linemen, backs/backers, receivers/DBs and now gives us a little time more time for other drills during these periods.   We found this period to be one of our best periods of the day.

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