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Post by Coach.A on Feb 19, 2011 17:33:52 GMT -6
Coaches,
We have abandoned the traditional warm up and stretch and replaced it with reduced speed, minimal contact, football specific drills. If your team has done this as well, share what you have your players do in place of stretching.
Some of the stuff we like to do is listed below:
QBs/Rec/RB - Air Raid drills (settle & noose, pat & go) *Ofen we'll take 1 QB and RBs and work our handoffs and option reads
OL - Hip mobility circuit, pass pro punch drill, zone steps over the boards, kick-out pulls and square pulls at reduced speed.
DL - Hip mobility circuit, 6 point punch, get offs from fit position done at reduced speed, stimulus response at reduced speed
LB - pass drops at reduced speed, OL reads and run fits
DB - various backpedal drills and pass drops at reduced speed - finish with a break on the ball
We try to have most of our position to do 2 different drills each day (e.g. Monday O-line is doing hip mobility and pass pro punch drill, Tuesday O-Line is doing zone steps over the boards and pulls at reduced speeds, etc.)
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Post by mholst40 on Feb 19, 2011 19:51:20 GMT -6
With our RBs, we do ladder drills that have ball-handling incorporated into them.
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Post by td4tc on Feb 19, 2011 19:55:48 GMT -6
anybody have any evidence that traditional warm up would have any advantage vs low tempo position specific drills for getting players ready for practice without an increase in injuries?
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Post by jackedup on Feb 19, 2011 21:30:14 GMT -6
I'm interested in these types of drills. But I wonder the mental intensity of the players during these drills. We have a pre-practice period where we do these types of drills but then we have a dynamic warm-up period. The purpose around that is to "focus" the players up.
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Post by Coach.A on Feb 19, 2011 22:42:53 GMT -6
We actually bring the full team to the goal line and do 5 quick minutes of dynamic movements after these "pre-practice" drills. But really it's just to get them mentally prepared and aware that the practice will be full intensity from this point forward.
Let's hear some other ideas for pre-practice drills for each position.
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Post by seagull73 on Feb 19, 2011 22:56:58 GMT -6
I coach Qbs
10 yards with football in throwing position or ball security
Old School Runnign DrillsHigh Knees Shuffel Butt kickers Drops
Slow Dynamic Sumo squats Luinges Knee to chest
Go right in to drops on lines & footwork
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Post by coachbdud on Feb 19, 2011 23:47:21 GMT -6
OL I use "Can Drill" - we go over front revognition and blocking schemes, a different front every day
we use a mirror pass pro drill, sets, really any of our OL drills I feel safe using right away to start practice, but I usually use "easier" ones to get us going to help focuz the guys in
the more I coach, and the more I learn through my science classes as a Kinesiologist, I see just how inefficient and unnecessary traditional warm up/stretching periods are
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Post by mariner42 on Feb 20, 2011 0:00:34 GMT -6
I like blitz practice/review for LBs, any kind of low-speed form tackling for any defensive personnel, and play review/install for the whole offense (especially during fall camp) for pre-practice activities.
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