Helpful Drills for Quarterbacks at All Levels
One of the most useful tools for developing and refining the skills and techniques of a quarterback are properly designed drills. As such, a comprehensive plan for developing a quarterback must include a substantial amount of drill work. With all…
How Auburn Develops Speed and Agility
There is a saying in football that if you can’t run, you can’t play. That is so true. At every level of football, the team or individuals that can move the best have a great advantage. Although some are more…
Quarterback Arm Strength (Velocity) Drills
Straight arm into the net drill Whenever a quarterback throws the ball to another player, he should be working on accuracy. For this reason, he SHOULD NOT throw to another player in this particular drill, since the entire purpose…
Auburn’s North-South RB Drill from the book Complete Running Back
North-South Drill The following is an additional drills from Complete Running Back (Human Kinetics, 2016) written by Auburn Running Backs Coach, Tim Horton. North–South Drill PURPOSE Simulate catching a pass out of the backfield and taking a direct…
QB Drills to Improve Accuracy and Arm Strength – Part I
Good quarterbacks are not always born. Many of them are self-made; they take what natural skills they possess and then develop them through a program of intensive and consistent work in and out of season. It is very important…
In-Season Training: Improving Not Sustaining
An effective in-season training program should be about improving and continuing to peak your players for the end of the season – playoff time. Why would you want your players to be at their best for camp and only try…
Mt. St. Joseph University’s In-Season Strength Training Program
By Mike Shibinski, MA, C.S.C.S. Director of Football Strength and Conditioning “The importance of coaching is the ability to not only teach players, but to motivate them to do the job they have to do. The conditioning of a…
Myths of Football In-Season Strength Training
A common practice in football conditioning (training) is to do strength exercises to increase strength in-season. This seems to be a universal practice as I haven’t seen any recommendations to the contrary. Can this practice be substantiated by science? The…
Training Season Game Plan
At the end of the 2015 season there were three things at the top of my list of improvements for my team’s overall physical performance: speed, explosiveness, and flexibility. Improving strength is always a priority, but not at the top…
June Workouts: Making adjustments
As we begin preparation for year two at Mercer County High School (KY), we are making progress but still have much to do. One area that we have had to adjust has been our June workouts. Although we had made…