Conditioning Tips & Warm Up Drills for Football

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Hi, this is Sean Hobson, for Expert Village. What we want to talk about now is using some good drills at the start of practice or the start of a game to get these guys worked out. It will not only limber them up and work on their agility, but it will extend to a conditioning drill. One drill we like to use works on a couple of things. One is the back pedal. Two is the shuffle. If they're pursuing a play and not sure what's happening yet we want them to stay down low, pursue the play, then attack the play. So, we're going to work on back pedaling and then we're going to work on shuffling. Once they get back we want them to come out of a shuffle, stay low, powerful and strong, and turn and sprint themselves back. We're going to walk through it once and then we'll sprint it out. (Video demo). Let's show the proper way to back pedal. You don't want to be too far out to the front. You definitely don't want to be too far behind because you'll fall. You want a good base. You want everything up under you. You want to be pumping your arms and pumping your knees high. Once they get to this cone, they're going to turn from the back pedal, stay low and shuffle. We don't want to bring our feet together. We want to keep our base wide as we shuffle, hands out as if we have a defender in front of us. Once they touch the next cone, they'll sprint back. We're going to show it one time at full speed; back pedal, shuffle, sprint back as fast as you can. Always finish every drill as hard as you can running through the line. Don't stop short, because you'll cheat yourself and cheat your team.

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