Spring Player Development Archives:

Boyd Epley, is often considered to be the “godfather” of modern strength and speed training for football. Boyd has published many articles on proper weight and speed training for young men age 10-14 as well as the college kids. I’ve spoken at the same clinics as Boyd, his presentations are always off the charts. My [...]

  What We Are Doing This Spring Speed Development For the second consecutive year my youth football program is doing an abbreviated “football speed” development program in the Spring. The program is designed to develop enthusiasm for playing in our program while working on form and “football speed” development. The program is called FASTT for [...]

This is our very abbreviated practice plan for week 1. We hope to have pictures posted in the next month. Spring Practice 1 6:00 Open-Intro Coaches Coaching Youth Football Philosphhy Goals Logistics 6:10 Cals-Warm Ups- High Knees-Butt Kicks Team Divides 6:20 Plyo Stations Cone Station 3 Cones�Outside IN- 10 seconds Inside Out-10 Seconds Side over [...]

We are in our first year of doing some off-season player development. The program is called FASST and it stands for Fun Acceleration, Speed and Skills Training In past Springs we played in a 9 on 9 full contact flag youth football league. We practiced just 1 day a week and played a very short [...]