This is one of my favorite football lineman drills that is great for high school level to teach the defensive line to keep their motor going and shedding blocks. It also helps with the offensive line delivering positioning blocks. I call it 20 seconds of hell.
Here is one of the football wide receiver drills that I created to do with my wide receivers that is a little off the wall! The players really enjoy it because: 1) it's challenging and 2) because it simulates just about every catch in the game.
Here is one of the football practice drills that I use sometimes when we need a change in the conditioning part. We call this the "Soul Train" drill.
If you're looking for preseason football quarterback drills, try this one for improved footwork skills and arm strength.
This is one of my team's favorite football offense drills. We call it the Scoop and Go Drill.
We do an outside contain drill where there is one punter and two gunners. These conditioning drills for football allow your players to get to practice punting, returning, angle-taking, and containing all while getting some conditioning, too.
While I was a youth football coach and we would onside kick a lot, especially the younger teams. An effective, high repetition football drill that the kids loved was our "Onside Kick – King of the Hill Drill".
For our football defense, we like to use a wave drill to teach pursuit and change of direction. We didn't feel we were "changing direction" well, so implemented this to help the players move better, keep pad level down when doing so, and coach hustle and pursuit.
Here are a couple of ideas for football practice drills to use with your teams. One helps to take the boredom out of regular football drills and the other is crucial for keeping the whole team fresh on their skills.
We use these football training drills to teach all our defensive guys how to take good pursuit angles and that,if done right, you should have a nice straight line with players right next to each other.
We started to incorporate this offensive drill for football into our practice plan 4 years ago, and it has helped us to become more competitive at a higher level. The football drill we use daily is called "run tech".
Here is one of my favorite conditioning drills for football. I use it as a "cool down" drill for the entire team. I like to do at the end of football practice.
One of the football offense drills that I like to use is a handoff drill. This football drill also helps with conditioning, and the kids don't get bored with conditioning.
Try these fun football blocking drills with your youth football team. After mastering the base stance I turn my focus to teaching body posture during the drive block.
After coaching flag football for a few years now, I've noticed that one of the things a lot of kids do in the beginning is once they get touched, they stop running regardless, even if their flags are still on them. I came up with these flag football drills to address this.
A big part of being a good football defensive player is quickness (your ability to cut off an offensive player, your ability to slide out into the passing lane, etc.). Try these football training drills to increase your quickness; you'll be a better defender.
We start these football lineman drills with an O linemen and a D linemen in a three point across from each other. There is a second line 5 yards back to represent the line-backers, in the up position.
This is one of the defensive drills for football that I use often. I call it "PURSUIT" but I understand there are other football drills called this as well. The variation I run is with the defensive unit.