Wave Drill<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 (Forward\/Lateral\/Backward) This one is old school, but it works! Make your athletes work for 5-6 seconds. Give them three different commands then make them burst for 2 steps on the way out of the drill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back Pedal + Turn<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 One of my personal favorites! Starts all your athletes in a back pedal then use a visual key to make them turn 180 degrees and sprint for 5 yards! This is great for DB\u2019s and OL\u2019s, I use this every chance I get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mirror Drill<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Another old school throw back. This is great when you\u2019re working with the whole team at once. Have two athletes work in a five yards box, one in the rabbit the other one is chasing try to stay in front. Only make them go about five seconds!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nmost important part of conditioning in my opinion is to get your athletes the\nstamina experience in the type of job they are ask to do when the lights are\non. There is no point asking an OL to do 100 yards sprints, because he would\nnever do that in a game. Athletes need to be trained smart, not for your EGO!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a touchy subject were the old school meets the new school! Football is a sport where you play 4-6 seconds at a time, yet strength coaches sometimes see the need for athletes to only \u201ccondition\u201d doing 100 yard sprints and gassers! This really doesn\u2019t make sense at all! Conditioning for Football should be … Continue reading “Preseason Football Conditioning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4512,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions\/4512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/mirror.jpg\")
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