Agility ladder drills, jump rope, shuttle runs...

Acquire a training bungee, or sled, and have the athlete do resistance running 50 yards for 3 reps, with 3 minute rests in-between. Then without resistance for 2 reps, 3 minute rest. The point is to have the athlete do the reps as fast as possible; practice with quality of speed, not quantity of reps.

I use the PlayFast system if anyone is interested, and I download custom programs from:

http://www.youthfitnessmag.com/training-programs

Working your legs and running drills

just getting their legs strong and make em' run

make them run with wieghts on their legs.

They could sprint hills, that works on raising their legs high and having to use their hamstrings. Another exercise that I like to do is called squat sprints. I have various different types of squat exercises that they line up and do, when they finish doing the squat they then have to run a 20 yard dash. Turn around and jog back. After 3 sets of different squats, the 4th set is a lunge that they do all the way down to the other end of the 20 yds and they walk back for a breather. I repeat the group of 4 series and then move on to a different set. I have a total of 12 different squat moves and 4 different lunges. This workout can take up to 45 min to do.

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