Football high school

Question

am a high school football player. i play running back. How can i build agility and quickness and explosivenessand speed i need good working excersies and workouts i need a lot of help please help

Answer 1

lift weights, run around your neighborhood, go get a instructor

Answer 2

set cones across from each other, about 10 feet. and whenever you get to the other one, as fast as you can, bend your kness when you turn back to the other cone..

we did this in soccer to get faster.

Answer 3

RUN RUN RUN RUN and RUN some more

and you could also build calf and thigh muscle, which will allow u to jump higher, plow over more people, u get the idea

Answer 4

Our high school football team always does this. I play qb but the running back always strap sleds to them and run. also they use bungie cord kinda things. you strap those to a fence or something and get in your pre snap position and explode out of it. ladder drills also build great footwork. be sure to stretch alot. hamstring, thigh, groin, and calf stretches also build speed. hope all this will help you become a better runningback.

Answer 5

go buy one of those parachute things and run sprints

Answer 6

do lunges. and run in the sand.  

Answer 7

work on footwork drills

Answer 8

explosiveness: squats are considered the most important excercise for explosiveness. generally excercises that use multiple muscle groups are better than isolation excercises (i.e. free weights better than machines) for explosiveness. thats also true for agility. keep in mind most excercises that build agility are harder on your joints in some way than comparable non-explosive excercises (squats=knees) so don't overdue it and don't do only explosive excercise. form is waaaaay more important than weight with free weights. Also try driving the sled (if your school has one) like the lineman do only don't start touching it. explode into it.

quickness: short sprints with short breaks in between. this improves front end speed so you accelerate better/faster. this is also a good way to improve your endurance for football since that is what a long sustained drive is going to feel like. try 20 yards with a 20 sec rest in between. if you do that in sets of 5. thats the length of a field. if you get good add more if you get even better do it on an incline treadmill or up a hill. time yourself and look for improvement. try it in a sprinters stance and in a 2 pt stance (or however you line up). after you build up a little exhaust yourself on this.

speed: just run baby. you'll find speed you never knew you had once you get a big LB chasing you anyway.

Answer 9

lots & lots of running (=

Answer 10

For workouts with weights; these will help build explosiveness: Power cleans, squats, lunges, and hang cleans.

If you want to build speed; it comes with powerful legs and long strides. Try running around the block at full stride, and with that i mean when you take a step, you reach out all the way with your leg, and then repeat it over and over. After you get used to that, try sprinting at full stride from a three point stance. Before you start, take a stance with your butt high in the air and then take off. Try and get about two steps in every five yards.

For agility, try agility dots, click the link, and do everything this guy does, don't cheat yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR7s4nXtW...

Another workout for agility would be the 20-Yard Shuttle. Just practice this over and over:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-58GKr8y...

One more would be a "Cone Drill" you can switch it up how you like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgLoTuyKk...