10-18-2019, 03:26 PM
(10-18-2019, 02:41 PM)fredtoast Wrote: 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.
Team conditioning builds chemistry/camaraderie. Not sure a mile time is a good indicator, though. I might time something like suicides. A more high explosion, multiple short bursts stamina drill.
