10-18-2019, 02:41 PM
(10-18-2019, 01:54 PM)Yojimbo Wrote: I’m in favor of a really hard training on the conditioning side. My goal would be to have the fittest team in the league. No players being gassed or hands on their hips the entire game. I can see taking it a bit easier on the high impact portions of training camp, outside of tackling drills on dummies.
I agree that conditioning is very important, but if you push a team too hard during training camp you just start the season with dead legs.
In college coaches have control over them all year round and the offseason workouts are pukefests where they work on conditioning. NFL teams can't do that.
What I would do is set a conditioning goal for each player. Something like their time in a mile run. The guys who can't meet that mark at the start of training camp have to run every morning at 6:00 AM until they do. That is what my college coach did.
Football is a very complicated team game. Training camp practices should be dedicated to working on things players can't do on their own or without coaches. Things like individual technique and team/unit drills.
