Offensive Conditioning

Line up 3-4 huddles in "conveyor belt" style and run a perfect play drill. Team breaks the huddle, runs to the line, executes the play "on air," and sprints 20 yards. Immediately re-huddle. The next group is off and running behind them. Run it all the way down the field and turn it around coming back.

If you are a no-huddle team, go 5 minutes of no-huddle either on air or against a base defense. That's a good work-out too.

Lots of teams do conditioning circuts and tackling circuts...so why not try BLOCKING circuts? Have one station be the 7-man sled, another be "open field blocking", another be kickout blocking, and another be 1-on-1 form blocking...

We have had some extremely low numbers in the past (22/25 kids on a team) When we do our scrimmage period (usually against dummies) after each play has been run drop the dummies defense sprints to one end zone and back offense sprints to the other. In a 5 minute period you can get a lot of sprints in. By the way, everyone runs. If you're standing behind the offense you run with them, watching on the side for the defense you run with them. Receivers in the pattern run with the defense.

Back and WRs- fast paced pass skeleton Set up as may groups of backs and DBs as you can and rep the heck out of pass patterns and plays. Just make sure you have you're RBs out on patterns also- they're not going to much conditioning pretending to block.

We set up barrels in various defensive fronts (either during 2-a-days or what we expect to see in the upcoming game). The barrels were donated to us by a local factory. They stand about 4 feet tall. We have a coach at each "defense". For example, we may set up a 5-2 on the goalline. A 4-3 will be set up at the 20 and a 4-4 will be set up at the 40. The offensive coordinator provides the play from the script (each coach has a script) and the first team offense executes the play on each defense. Each offense will follow the other down the field. Once the players have executed the play against the third defense, they jog back to the original huddle.

We also have a drill we call "Rapid." In this drill, we run plays on air but emphasize concentration in a pressure setting. The offensive coordinator signals the play (all players know the no-huddle signals) and the players execute the play. Another coach is 15 yd. downfield. When the players have executed the play, they sprint the 15 yd. They must job back to their position & get the next play (signaled in by OC). The goal at the beginning of the season is to execute one play every 20 seconds. We eventually trim this down to one play every 13 seconds. If there is a lack of concentration by any player (jumping off-sides, fumble, executing wrong play, not sprinting through the line, not getting the ball snapped in the necessary time, etc.), the coach increases the sprint distance by an additional 5 yd. Early in the season, we are sprinting 35 yd. and expecting the play off in 20 seconds. It forces the players to concentrate or they will tick off a lot of their teammates.