When you’re coaching a youth football team, the players hate running sprints, as did I when I played. Here are a couple of youth football conditioning drills that work well and make practice fun.

Set up all of your football drills in the four corners of the field. Work on hand offs, blocking, kicking into trash can, and so forth. Everybody does these drills no matter the skill or position played by the kids. The drills last 15 min.

IF–
1.The kids sprint in the football drill and from drill to drill then no sprints that day.
2.If one kid does not hustle then the whole team has to do sprints.

This helps in many ways.
1-They learn reward as a team and punishment as a team.
2-By keeping an upbeat practice it creates intensity plus they do not even realize that they running more sprints by doing the drills.

Power Hour
We run what we call power hour on offense. This is when our starting offense goes against the rest of our team (about 20 kids). It really builds toughness and forces the kids play harder. It works great when you can make a competition out of it. The kids love it!

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