Staying in Football Shape
If you are an athlete not just a football player you will appreciate this. You ever wonder why you can run up and down the basketball court or the soccer field but when it comes to football you don’t seem like your in great shape? Well the truth of the matter is you aren’t in “Football Shape”. It has been estimate that in College Football games on average a play lasts about 5.8 secs and all the plays in a game total up to about a little over 5 minutes of actual game play. Many people and football players don’t even know these facts. This is why there is a different method of preparing for football.
Drills and Agilities
Of course there are drills that are specific to the sport of football alone. These drills include:
high knees butt kicks Kareeoka or (however the heck you spell it) side shuffles Up downs short sprints “Oklahoma Drills” rope drills ladder drills etc.
Then you have the drills that are come from track work outs that place emphasis on explosion like:
Running with Sled/Parachute Other Resist Drills Bounding Stance and Start Very Short Sprints 110 yard sprints Time running with short recovery
Now you are starting to get the picture that is why football workouts consist of many complex exercises and drills. Some help improve your explosion, others help with your recovery. You have to be able to be explosive every play and be able to recovery in a very short period of time. Think about this scenario: you just ran a football play (5.8 seconds) about 30 to call next play in the huddle and your running again, you get such a short recovery period and that could have been a 40 yard play or a 5 yard play but either way you have to be ready to go again that quick.
In Closing
I wrote this entry today as a motivational tool, in hopes to keep players on the right track in their off season. Give you all a brief explanation of why your workout may seem so vigourous that it may scare you. As a coach now I understand a lot of things that I didn’t understand when I played. Now I am actually apart of the planning and organizing aspect of high school football and I can tell you that everything makes sense and it is things that we are required to do to make you better. I can’t speak for every coach or every school but thats how it is in my program…CHS…Well until next time…