Football Training Drills – Footwork & Conditioning Drills

Try these two football training drills to get your teams ready for fall season. The first drill, the BOX DRILL, is a good footwork drill for receivers. The second drill is a favorite conditioning drill.

Box Drill
This is a good drill to use at the beginning of practice and can be set up and run by the kids as one of several receiver stations if you have a lot of kids.

Set up four cones in a 10yd by 10 yd square.
Put receivers in one line behind one cone facing up one side of the square.
On the whistle:
1. The first receiver sprints to the first cone,
2. Does a quick footfire to settle his feet,
3. Slams his outside foot,
5. Turns his hips towards the next cone with a good dead-leg turn and
6. Sprints to the second cone.

This process continues for the next two cones.
The next receiver goes once the man in front of him has reached the first cone.
Once everyone has gone through once, the line should go through again in the opposite direction.

Conditioning Drill
Here is a favorite conditioning drill of ours. Not only a great conditioning drill but keeps them low, especially on 5 yd version, and it is fun!

1. Split the squad in smaller teams (we have 20 players so we do 4 teams of 5 players)
2. Split that team in 2 at 1 end and 3 at the other end, where the teams are approx fair in teams of speed
3. Put 3-4 tennis balls at 1 end, either 10 yards or 5 yards away
4. Relay race to run and pick up the tennis balls one at a time and must set back down on the line by the other team
5. Can have them do this once or twice to win the race

Not only a great conditioning drill but keeps them low, especially on 5 yd version, and it is fun!