Increase your teams overall quickness and dominate the competition for the first snap of the game. Using a few simple drills, you can achieve this at the beginning of the season. Players must want to work hard to improve their speed. Coaches must pair them up. Don't allow the kids to move around in line so they run against slower kids or their buddies. Pair them up at the beginning of practice and make sure that you rotate them around with equally skilled kids during the week.
Using these sprinting drills, there is no need to buy expensive equipment. Using a few things from home can save a ton of money and create some super fast players!
- Pack on the pounds: fill backpacks with small sand bags a third or half full and fill the rest of the empty space with a towel to keep it from bouncing around - don't weight them down too much, just a couple of extra pounds is all they need.
- Get an old tire, tie a rope around it about 7 feet long and fasten to your players with a belt and have them run with the tire behind them flat on the ground (longer grass works better).
- Pair up players of equal size and have them stand face-to-face. One player is running the other is pushing on their shoulders for resistance and moving backwards.
