Football and the Weight Room
If you coach football, you have to consider physical fitness as part of your program, regardless of what level you coach. Many youth coaches have it down with simple plyometrics such as pushups, situps and explosion drills (check these articles out: http://artofmanliness.com/2010/05/21/beginners-guide-to-plyometrics/, http://www.donchu.com/articles/article7/). But they are often faced with enthusiastic dads that want to get [...]
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What is important in football? You have to answer this question for yourself and be honest about it. Then ask your athletes. I think you will be surprised to hear their answers. Your answer may even surprise you. Everyone wants to win. No one ever starts or plays a game with the intention of loosing, [...]
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You can only catch so much in the heat of the moment during a game. And you can only see just as much in practice. If you can not see it or if you do not catch it you can not correct it. What I mean by “it” is the mistakes in technique or in [...]
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