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Weightlifting Tips Specifically For Football Players

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As a former Collegiate and NFL player, I can attribute much of my success on the field to countless hours I spent in the weight room each week. This article, along with 10 others are going to give a glimpse to each young and aspiring professional football player the type of lifting and conditioning that is needed to be a GREAT player. Much of the information that I will share was taught to me by a number of excellent strength and conditioning coaches, I feel it my responsibility to share …

Football Players – Inspiring Kids Who Inspire Them

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If we want young people to acquire new, healthy habits, we have to do more than lecture them. We have to inspire them so they become self-motivated. That’s exactly what the NFL is doing with NFL Play 60, the national youth health and fitness campaign encouraging young people to be active for at least 60 minutes a day. It’s an innovative program designed to help fight obesity. Students will have the opportunity to ride to school with an NFL player and join him in leading classmates through the once in …

Soccer Fitness and Conditioning – Fitness Tips For Kids Soccer

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As a Personal Trainer and Soccer Coach, there are a number of important points that you should be aware of when training your kids to be fit for soccer. Your first consideration should be the age and current fitness levels of your players. It is very important to realise with your training that kids are not just little adults, and as such adult fitness and conditioning drills are largely inappropriate. Second consideration should be the types of soccer drills that you are going to use. For children, I always like …

Kickoff Coverage Techniques For Youth Football

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The Indianapolis Glazier Clinic was a medium sized clinic with a small but enthusiastic contingent of youth football coaches. It was great to see guys from all the way from Cincinnatti there that ran my system last year for the first time. I got to the clinic just in time to see some excellent speakers including a Special Teams guru that had sent a number of kickers to Division I and NFL teams. I got the chance to listen to an Illinois Hall of Fame High School coach, Mike Rude …

5 Steps to Improve Your Football Coaching

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Your football coaching skills can be improved in many of ways. Autobiographies of renowned players and managers, dedicated football coaching books, football magazines, and watching football on TV can be beneficial, but for a coach, they are not always convenient methods to explain techniques or tactics when the whole team is trying to watch the screen, or read a book. Online training courses are designed to provide you with the football techniques and coaching skills you need in order to help your players to progress. Utilising video clips, and other …

Flag Football Coaching

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Flag football allows coaches to instruct their players about the basic essentials of the sport without tackling or using excessive physical contact. Flag football coaching allows a team to learn and run plays without risking significant bodily injury. This can be a daunting task for a coach, but fortunately there are many tips and strategies which can make flag football coaching run smoothly and contribute to the overall skill and cohesion of the team. Keep Everything Simple: The most important thing is to try to keep everything simple, and then …

Youth Football Coaching Clinics – Some Tips To Running An Effective One

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Any youth football coaching clinics need to cover a variety of topics including, practice organization, defense, offense and game day management. They should last about 6 hours and should include plenty of hands on demos, film and plenty of handouts. We prefer to use Powerpoint with embedded video of kids in practice and game day situations. Here is the outline we use for the clinics we are doing in Seattle and Salt Lake City in May: Practice Organization, the Perfect Practice How to Trim time from Practices while improving effectiveness …