Conditioning Drills for Football – Circuit Training

If you’re looking for fresh ideas for [tag]conditioning drills for football[/tag], here is one conditioning [tag]football drill[/tag] which I find worthwhile and fun. It is simple and you will find your players like this better than your traditional drills.

First you need an area to run any distance you want; I used cones to mark off a square and each cone was 40 yards apart. Then you take your group and split them into two smaller groups evenly A and B.

Group A will run around the cones while group B does whatever exercise you want eg. pushups, situps. When all of group A finishes with the run then group B does then run, and when the first people finish the run they start to do the exercise that the other group is doing.

There is no stopping point in this [tag]football[/tag] drill until you have reached your objective say 5 repetitions for each group meaning each group runs 5 times and also does activity B. You can vary this drill anyway you want if for the first rotation you want them to do pushups and then on the second circuit you want them to do situps its all up to you and how you want to run it.

I implemented this drill at the high school where I was coaching and the kids liked this drill better than the gassers they were used to running every practice.