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It is never too early to plan your preseason football drills.   The first drill focuses solely on conditioning and the second is a way to transition your youth team to the high school level.   Give these a try to start your season off!

Preseason Conditioning
Currently we are doing conditioning practice.   We are not allowed to make contact of any kind not even pads for the first 10 days so we do pure conditioning.

I divide the kids into 6 groups, usually done from the 6 lines as we stretch.   I then have 6 cones spread around the field about 40 yards apart with a coach at each location.

We do 3 min at each location doing some exercise before sprinting to the next location.

It takes about 20 minutes and will really wear them down.   Some of the exercise we do are: squat and jump, sit ups, push ups, up – downs, lunges, leg lifts.

High School Transition Drill
When coaching youth teams, we try to mold are players to make a smooth transition into are local high school program.

We found that the drills that help us the most were containment and angle pursuit drills with work on making the runner go to inside and not letting them get to the outside.

Pursuit drill was so effective that some teams almost never made it too far past the line. What we would do is to go half speed, have a coach or runner hit the sideline and go then have the D turn and find their angle of pursuit.

After a couple of walk throughs we made sure everybody had it down, we would go full speed with no tackling involved no need to have a whole team cream a runner during practice as long as they excite the angle correctly we would save the big hits for the game.

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