I find that the traditional drills on football strength and conditioning can get a bit stale. Here’s a football drill that has livened things up quite a bit in my practices.
From Dennis
I’ve got to say new coaching ideas & drills are a positive enhancement in maintaining attention span of the players. We have incorporated push lunges and sit catches into our program.
Push lunge: Players on their stomachs, hands in a push up position. On command players pushup then bring their right knee to their chest and back then left knee to their chest and back, then back to the ground. We start slow and speed up for 10 reps at the end of which the players fire out to tackle a 70lb boxing bag or fumble recovery.
Sit Catches: players on their backs, knees bent. Second player standing on feet with football to be initially dropped down to the player lying on back, arms extended with hands in triangle (thumbs and index fingers touching others spread) catching football in down position, tucking and then sitting up handing ball back to other player. 12 rep–three over head , three left, three right, three chest.
As they get better, increase speed of the ball coming down. In less than a week all our players catch with their hands and have acquired a quicker stronger fire out from their stances.
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