re: Youth Football Drills

Be in great shape especially for the Fall when it is hot. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Watch practice and do the same drills at home.

Work with his football mentality. The guys who like to hit and love contact will beat better athletes who pull up or avoid contact.

Don't get discouraged. It takes most kids a full year to get the hang of tackle football. Most kids will start behind the kids who have been playing but they can catch up it just takes a while.

Only have him play if he loves it. Kids that truly love football will catch up and excel.

He really hasn’t been assigned any position as they have just been doing spring training and then will do summer workouts before the season starts in the fall. He’s played O line, D line, and linebacker in the practices so far. He’s slightly taller than most at his age and has slimmed up a lot as puberty just hit.

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Get him on HGH and juice asap so he can be like the pros

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Best way is to do a 24 hour fast, and males can expect an increase of natural HGH of 20x compared to the non fasting state.

Then after the 24 hours, lift hard, and then break the fast with the perfect keto meal of 1 1/2 inch thick ribeye, roasted broccoli, pan seared butter brussel sprouts, and some garlic asparagus. Rinse and repeat. But don't forget leg day.

If they are in the middle of Spring practice, there's probably not a lot he can do to get better before the fall. There's plenty he can do between the end of Spring practice, and the Fall.

For the Spring practices that are going on, he needs to learn as much as possible while they practice. Tell him to treat these spring practices like a class. Tell him to pay close attention to what the coaches say, and try not to make the same mistakes multiple times. If the coach ask, "Does everyone understand what they're supposed to do?" and he doesn't tell him it's OK to ask. Then, or when they are in a break, are the times to get clarification on something he's not sure about.

He should show an eagerness to get on the field. If he wants to play defense, but they need guys on offense, tell him to give offense a chance just to get on the field. If he knows there are fewer guys wanting to play any one position, try that position. If they ask for participants in a drill, he should jump in the line, and watch what the guys in front of him do. Do anything he can to get reps, and chances to show the coaches what he can do.

Once spring practice is over he might have exercises that the coaches want him doing. If the coaches don't give something out, he can do the running others have mentioned. Not just going out and running a mile or two. He needs to run sprints to help build the legs up. He can do some form of sit ups/crunches. He can do pushups, chin-ups, etc. If he has access to, and knows how to properly use them, he can lift weights. The leg exercises are very important for football. Guys with skinny legs don't push other guys around with weak legs. I would think most of the kids that are serious about playing will be lifting weights. He needs to do everything he can to be stronger, and faster, than he was this spring. Even if he takes to it, and ends the spring as a starter, he'll still need to get stronger, and faster by the fall. Rinse, and repeat for the next Fall.

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Any advice on training drills or how he can improve?

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My junior year in high school our small AA team made it to the state quarterfinals. We didn't have but one, maybe two really stellar athletes on the team. The rest were good to pretty good, but no other college caliber ones.

And we didn't play platoon football either. Between offense and defense maybe 15 or 16 guys. Most played both ways. We had a total of maybe 35 guys on the entire team. And we weren't big. We had a couple of linemen who played at 140 pounds.

What kept us in the game was conditioning. I can still hear Coach yelling after practice, "Wind Sprints!" 40 years later. After 2 hours of practice, we'd run 25-30 wind sprints of 60 yards at least.

It helped a lot that we had a couple of coaches who knew how to teach the fundamentals, but conditioning is what allowed us to persevere.

Certainly you have to have some level of skill. But conditioning is more important to the team than individual skill. If you're winded and worn out, doesn't matter how much natural ability you have.

That’s what I’m worried about is that he is so late to the game he isn’t really getting much coaching. He just wants to put the work in at home to help get better.

Tough to kick earlier than that because the kids can't seem to long snap and hold well enough. My boy's about to turn 12 and he's been at it for a few years. He's money from all of the hashes at 35, but he's about to transition to the high school ball.