Comments on: 5 Gut Busting Conditioning Drills from the Gridiron

By: Travis

Travis — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:07:19 +0000

In seventh grade, after every practice, we’d do 40 up-downs, jog the field, then do 20 more up-downs.

By: Freshmen

Freshmen — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:46:39 +0000

Coach makes us do “snakes” where u line up on the goal line and run it the the 5 yard line run it then the 10 yard line run it 15,20 all the way down the field and back like that it’s crazy hard!

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:46:18 +0000

If you want a drill that is fun and the kids love doing, they dont even realize how hard it is at first. Its called Burma Road. Start a sigle fill line at the hash marks on the goal-line. 20yds down field on the opposite hash mark hold a tackling dummie. and then put another one 20yrds down field on the opposite hash mark. keep doing for 100 yrds. The players then sprint by the coaches whistle one by one to the dummie and form tackle the bag, getting up and heading to the next bag and so on. You can change this up by coaches holding blocking shield every other bag, so the players get a chance to hit you. This is the one drill my players ask to do and it wears the out.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:37:14 +0000

I have been coaching for about 22 years and have still not found any drill harder than what our coaches would make us run. They were called Man builders. Starting on the goal-line, you take off at full speed and dive on your chest every five yards. We would do this up to 600yrds. By the end your arms and legs wont get you off the ground.

By: THELINEMAN

THELINEMAN — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:42:29 +0000

hahaha ohh man. i absolutly hate to think back to any of this…

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:54:30 +0000

There were several drills that we had in High School for football. There is only one that Ican remember that we had to do for punishment. It was something like that of the suicide up top of the page.

Air-rades
Start at one goaline and start sprinting when the coach or someone blows the whistle pretty much just slide head first on the grass pop right back up and sprint again goaline to goaline one time.

Bearcrawl
Start the bearcrawl from one goaline to the fifty and back one time

Up downs for ten minutes

By: Coach Josh

Coach Josh — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:57:42 +0000

Hey,
Awesome post! Im in Australia, and belong to an American football club. Good group of guys might I add. Was browsing the net looking for some drills to help my squad out. Although Australia has a good sense of sport they are a rugby nation. Went over some of these training techniques and the guys were hurting…..bad! Espicailly when i threw my contact drills in that i used to do in high school. Man, how did we do this 10 years ago!!! here some painful reminders of Coach Pain…Coach Plummer hahaha

Six inches..the hard way

Line ya team up on their back, have them raise legs @ six inches off ground…coach pain style…then walk on everyones stomach for two laps around the whole team

Shuttle Bus Run

just like a shuttle run
five yd line back, ten yd line back , etc.
except coach pain style on the way back to the start everytime u have a guy with a shield( or dummy) crack you b4 you turn and go…..oh pain

Gauntlet

whole team forms two lines 2 yds aprt
from the end each player runs through the gauntlet getting bashed the whole way
p.s. good team bonding:)

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:17:55 +0000

my favorite highschool gut buster was BIG 3s ( bear crawl side line to side line, back peddle sideline to sideline then sprint sideline to sideline)

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:37:15 +0000

See i went too Wilson HS in Pa. Where NFL greats kerry collins, and future, Chad Henne Attended HS. We have always had a rough condition from the end of school, all thru out the summer. that included.

8 100’s sprints on a track.
8 200’s sprints on a track.
6 300 yard shuttles -up 100, back 100, up 100. that was one.
8 Pyramid suicides 5 back, 10 back, 15 back, 20 back as one set.
and of course the “rabbit” drill. you have the whole defense line up in position and you have a group of really fast kids go one by one sprinting down a straight line, cutting back and forth as the defensive players keep the runner in front of their bodies maintaing good knee bend and staying in position. then when the runner is gassed, a new one comes in….same process….then when the coach finall blows the whistle, the runner, once he hears the whistle, turns up field and sprints. while all the defenders have to touch him. if one player doesnt touch him then you have to go again. it sucks especially when you do for a long period of time….and those fast kids being the “rabbit” really start to piss you off.

By: shaw

shaw — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:43:44 +0000

wow, i now know how much tougher my schools program is than anyone else’s! im not saying those sound easy, but i’d much rather do those drills than what we do. we do 300 yard shuttles, 40 timed 40’s with a 6 second break, 10 100’s 8 80’s 6 60’s and 4 40’s timed with minimal breaks, we have a huge hill so we do these things where you sprint up the hill and jog back down, usually about 25 times, and we play this game called life or death. it’s a game where if you’re caught loafing during practice or if you mess up 10 up downs gets added to the team total, we usually end up doing around 200

By: Austin Meissner

Austin Meissner — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:58:56 +0000

Green Bay’s
10 x100’s
8×80’s
6×60’s
4×40’s
2×20’s
No break in between. Worst thing you will ever do. VERY HARD

By: james

james — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:51:11 +0000

In High School my coach made us do (Trojan Circuits) start by
1.1 Lap around track
2. up&down the bleachers (3x)
3.2 40s (sprints)
4.1 Lap around track
5. 100 yrd bear crawls
6. 3 100s
it will get you in shape

By: James

James — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:42:35 +0000

I remember all the drills we had to do in high school, I’m also happy to see some new ones added or ones that have different names. I’m going to be doing a conditioning camp for my pee-wee league football players end of this month and a lot of these will come in handy, so thanks again for all the details on the drills.

By: Fran

Fran — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:30:24 +0000

Circle of Death-start at one corner of the field, sprint down the sideline and stop at the corner and do 15 sit-ups, get up and sprint counterclockwise to the opposite side of the goaline and do 15 pushups, sprint down the sideline, stop at the goaline and do ten burpees, sprint to beginning spot. We usually did this 4 times to symbolize the 4 quarters. If we felt the athletes weren’t working hard enough we would go into overtime.

By: Ike

Ike — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:37:11 +0000

I wasn’t a runner or a football player in high school, so my experience with these drills is somewhat limited. I did, however, swim. If you have access to a pool, there are many heinous conditioning drills that you can do, but my least favorite (which means it was the best for me) was a 200 yd freestyle followed by 10 push-ups and 20 wall jumps. Repeat this several times, and you have a great conditioning exercise that doesn’t require running.