Muscles are a lot like elastic in that the warmer they get, the easier it is to work them—in other words, exercise and practice football drills daily as well as warming up and stretching before hand. Drills and exercise are not for just outward physical benefits. They also deal with the subtlety’s of the body tissue, bones and muscle.

Drills worth consideration are agility drills. It is no rumor that practicing ballet helps football players hone in on their skills, so put that idea into practice! We’ve all seen the big tires laid out on the ground diagonally, but don’t let them just lay there! Make your players jump from one to the other, one to the other, one foot in a tire at a time. And repeat. It focuses agility and strengthens muscles in the legs, all rolled into one.

Another good endurance drill is running to a forward line, running back to the original line, then running further to another line out front, and repeat. However, before being allowed to return to the starting line, make sure each football player touches the line with his hand. Not only does this enhance endurance, but it also allows the player to focus on a specific point on the field, which helps a player be able to narrow into the eye of the ball when on the field in the middle of a game.

So as the coach of a football team, one of the most important factors of football practice is the type of practice technique you would like your players to perfect. Before practice, however, it’s important that you have your players warm up so that during practice, the risk of straining or otherwise injuring muscles is greatly reduced. Do this at a gradual pace, too quick and you run the risk of pulled muscles and early strains.

A great tip to warm up practice is to do stretches and jumping jacks. Pushups and crunches are also good methods of warming muscles as well as relaxing them.

After warmup, start with a few tried and tested techniques, such as teaching your players how to throw the football correctly in a spiral arch into the air. While the quarterback may be the only one in the game that throws the ball, it still is important that all players know how to play the different positions to get a feel of the game as a whole. It makes the team a team.

When throwing the ball, make sure to let your players know that the stitch line along the ball can be used as a guide for finger and hand placement. Have your players place their fingers between the stitches, and imagine a line reaching from the ball through the air to another player, then throw.

It is important that your players visualize the play (or the throw in this instance) becoming reality—only then will it actually become real