Football Coaching

Football Workout Training Article

2006-11-19T18:07:00.000-08:00

This article is an in-depth guide to improving your abilities as a football player. You are going to learn how to increase your speed, acceleration, agility, balance, and the most important, strength.

There are three ways in which to practice increasing your speed: Improving running mechanics, improving technique, and strengthening your legs.

Most players don`t have great running mechanics and if they would just improve their technique, they would run alot faster. Leg strength is important because the more force applied to the ground, the faster you will run. You simply cannot reach your full speed potential by just running sprints. A number of elements must coincide with each other if you want to reach your maximum speed potential.

From a scientific standpoint, speed is the by product of two elements: Stride length and stride frequency. Stride length is the distance you cover during each step of your run. Stride frequency is basically the number of steps you take per socond. By using the following training methods, you can increase your stride length and frequency; hence, increase of speed.

* Shuttle sprints - Start in your preferred position, run 10-15 yards, run backwards to starting postion, and then repeat.

* Pylometric circuit - Use this drill no more than once a week and not on days before the big game, since this circuit may take a couple of days to recover from.Speed and acceleration go hand-in-hand. To improve your acceleration, repeated sprints of more than ten seconds, performed with a standing start will be most useful. This will help the neuromuscular and metabolic qualities of the muscles involved. Another way of improving acceleration is to practice accelerating as fast as possible during practice. A slow acceleration topped with a quick burst is another good method that can be used.

One of the best utilities you can train with to increase acceleration is getting some type of workout dvd training system. What the dvds and use the drills in the training program.

Ladder drills are best performed in increasing your agility. In sports competition, the body is constantly asked to perform movements from unusual angles. The main purpose of the agility ladder program is to promote a wide range of different foot and movement patterns. These movements become second nature, and the body is able to quickly respond to the various angles required. You can improve your agility by practicing the movements in training and the agility ladder is a useful tool in a good agility program. The common ladder is roughly ten yards long with eighteen inch squares, but you can make your own ladder just using tape or even sticks. When you start the agility ladder program, introduce your body to two to four different movements. Once you get good at these movements, introduce yourself to new patterns to keep your body guessing.

Many of today`s athletes are using balance training as a crucial part of their overall training program. Balance is needed by runners in wooded areas, soccer players need balance when taking the ball on a volley from just behind themselves, and even tennis players need balance when reaching for a drop shot. Each of these situations requires the exercise of just the right amount of flexibility at the right time. With balance training, the idea is to recreate and manipulate what you would do in a game situation. Maintaining balance means having the center of your mass within the middle of your base for support.

In the past, people believed that perfect balance was best illustrated by standing on one leg and staying as still as possible for as long as possible. This method still works but there are also other methods in which are useful. Exercises such as the one-leg punch and jump steps are both perfect for improving your balance.Another point to remember is that maximal strength training should be a progression from general strength training with maximal loads. Heavy maximal exercise is only used for advanced strength trainees. Good abdominal and lower back strength is crucial if heavy lifting exercises are going to be used.

Pylometric exercises are classified into bounding, hopping, and jumping movements. These exercises demand a high force of contraction in response to a rapid loading of lengthening the muscles. For this reason, they should be renamed rebound or reversible action exercises. The training effort increases the force production in the muscles, but the movements are performed at faster speeds than that of weight-training exercises. Rebounding exercises are more common to the sprinting and jumping reps on each leg, with at least one minute of rest between sets. Endurance should not be a factor.

Running with weighted jackets and sprinting uphill are also useful exercises because it adds resistance to the sprint movement, which places greater load on the muscles.

You have learned the five most important areas of physical fitness needed to be a good football player.

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Football Workout Training

2006-11-18T15:02:00.000-08:00

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Active.com Football Newsletter

2006-11-16T06:32:00.000-08:00

Just a heads up that I just authored an article for Active.com a free youth sports website about Quarterback Training.

Here's the url for the article. http://www.active.com/story.cfm?story_id=13670&category=Football&num=1

Take a look and let me know what you think?

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Coaching Youth Football

2006-11-09T20:48:00.000-08:00

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Todd Krueger

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Of all sports, football is one of the most difficult to grasp at a young age. Most challenging is to get youngsters to do what they are supposed to do out on the field. It's hard to teach play positioning and line movement, yet these concepts are at the very foundation of football fundamentals. So techniques and teaching tools that appeal to young minds are naturally the most effective.

That's where I started when I created my Football Tools series of software and DVDs. I thought, "How can the complicated plays of efficient offenses and defenses be shown in an instructive and fun way?" It was then that I hit upon the idea of the Chalk Talk Customizable Playbook Software. This is software that will animate plays that you create. You can export the software format to Microsoft PowerPoint and show it to your team on a computer screen, TV, or even on a computer projector.

This way, you can get the most out of your study time. When you show your players the plays of your team (and opposing teams) in this way, you can pause the play at any moment, back it up, speed it forward--do whatever you wish. The animation aspect of my software appeals to kids, and it makes coaching youth football a more rewarding experience.

Make the most of your animations by simulating actual university and NFL plays from my Offensive Football Playbooks and Defensive Football Playbooks products. You can choose between running plays, passing plays, first-and-10 options, two minute offenses, shotgun and Wing T plays, West Coast Offense plays, 43 Defense plays, and much more.

Expand your coaching horizon with Football Tools.

Also there is a brand new great coaching 8 DVD set produced by the NFL with NFL Coaches and Star players demonstration Skills and Drills!

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Football Scouting Software

2006-11-09T00:14:00.000-08:00

Football Scouting Software

Football is all about timing. Not just the timing that is required between the offensive line and the running back, or between the safeties and linebackers on a blitz play, but also the timing of the coach to choose the right plays at the right time. The difference between success and failure rides upon play selection more than any other factor.

Having great plays in your arsenal is one thing, but knowing when to use them is something completely different. If you can catch the other team off guard, you can change the course of the game in one play. For a century, coaches have tried to master this art, but the reality is that effective play calling is a very difficult thing to do consistently.

You now have a new ally in this hundred-yard game of war, and it is in the form of your computer. Football Tools has created football scouting software that helps you analyze your play selection so that you can become more unpredictable to opposing coaches. We call it Chalk Talk, and it's an innovative way to make your plays more organized and coordinated.

"Controlled chaos" is a good phrase which to describe FootballTool's Football Scouting Software.

Simply, it help you get a handle on dozens of plays by telling you which plays you run and when.

For instance, it will tell you your top 10 plays on 3rd and 10, or your most popular pass plays in the red zone. This is useful stuff, and it will help you immensely on the field.

Your have the ability to report on 125 + different fill in the blank topics and create over 30 differnet offensive or defensive scouting reports.

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Free Football Coaching Articles

2006-11-08T23:49:00.000-08:00

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Youth Football

2006-05-02T19:00:00.000-07:00

Youth Football Playbooks

If you're the coach of a youth football team, good for you. You've taken it upon yourself to introduce this wonderful game to a bunch of young minds. (One of which might someday go on to be a pro player. Who knows?) As you are probably aware, the most difficult aspect of coaching youth football is not getting the kids to enjoy playing, nor is it getting them in shape.
Rather, getting the kids to understand the basic concepts of player positioning and play development is the hardest part. When we're young, everyone wants to be the quarterback. But it doesn't work out that way. Getting the kids to understand where they should be for even the most basic football plays can be a chore, but now there is a tool which might help you in this regard.

Football Tools' ChalkTalk Customizable Playbook Software allows you to run animations on a computer screen so that your kids can see where they are supposed to go after the ball is hiked. We all know how kids love video games.

Many start playing video games as early as they begin attending school, so it goes without saying that they respond to that kind of reinforcement.

We have found that by animating football plays, kids seem to understand them much better and more quickly. They just respond to a television more than they do a blackboard.

ChalkTalk is completely customizable, which means that you can design your own plays, or import them from any of our playbook packages.

The ability to animate plays is indispensable at the youth level. Now your young players not only have fun, but actually understand how the game more completely.

Football Coaching Blog By Todd Krueger

2006-05-02T18:05:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Football Coaching Blog,

Here is a little background about myself and our website www.footballtools.com

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Todd

Football Tools is a leading multimedia education company that was founded by Todd Krueger a former 8th round draft pick who played QB for the Buffalo Bills, Houston Oilers, Minnesota Vikings, and the Arizona Wranglers of the USFL.

I had a lot of help from my father, Coach Gil Krueger, a High School, College and Pro Football Coach for over 30 years, who has a impressive football history which includes playing DB for the Los Angelas Rams. He was also named Coach of the Year in 1976 for going 13-1 and Winning the National Championship at Northern Michigan University.

We provide Football Coaches, Parents and Players with high quality, low cost, easy to use Software, Ebooks, Tapes and Videos. These products are created by K&A Publishing or by parternering with the leading football providers.

We educate our veiwers and let them decide what products are best for the customer. This gives you both flexibleability and cost savings.