Thursday, February 13, 2014

Tips For Youth Football Training

By Nelda Powers


In the world of sports, football is one of the sports that is extremely rough and would require a really strong body that can adapt to many types of physical situations. In order for the bodies of the players to become really strong, the coach would have to come up with some drills and exercises. Just to give beginner coaches an idea of some good drills, here are some youth football training exercises.

One of the first drills that one would be doing would be the jump squat. In this sport, leg power is extremely important because one will need to be jumping really high and running really fast. Sometimes he will be bursting into a sprint when he sees the opponent coming over to tackle him.

To start the jump squat exercise, one has to first get down on a squatting position and start squatting down. From that position, he then has to jump as high as he can and bend his legs in the air. Just repeat this exercise a couple of times and the legs will be having a real workout.

The second drill that would be very beneficial to the players is known as the recovery exercise. This is the exercise that is specially designed for football and would help the player with hand balance. In a nutshell, this is training so that one will be able to balance his running and will also be able to get used to catching and passing the ball while he is sprinting.

To do this, one must first put a cone in front of the player followed by another one five yards from the first one and a last one ten yards from the first one. Now the catch here would be to simply run around the cone and touch the ground beside each of the cones there. While running around, make sure to switch the ball from the right hand to the left and from the left to the right after running each cone.

Then there would be the over speed drill which would increase the running speed of the player. Basically, the coach would have to find a rather steep hill wherein the players can run down fast. The catch here is that the players have to run down without falling on the ground.

Of course everyone knows about the dummy tackling drill. Known to be one of the most common, it is a drill wherein one would increase his overall body strength. In a nutshell, the coach has to put a few dummies on the field and let each player push his own respective dummy to a far end.

So basically, those are some of the youth football training drills that are commonly used by coaches in general. These drills are used in order to strengthen the entire body of the player and have him gain some skills as well. That way, he and the team will be able to be in tip top condition during the game and gain victory over the opponent.




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