First let’s focus on speed and agility. You should be working with an agility ladder at least 2-3 times a week in the offseason…lateral shuffle, run through, and bunny hops are some favorites. Find 5-6 drills you thing will help you the best and work on them. Plyometrics are another way to help with your speed and agility… Bounding, Box Jumps, and paratroopers are some favorites.. These will help with your explosiveness off the ball and out of your breaks along with your speed. Combine those 2 things with a sprint workout focusing proper running technique and perfecting your route running techniques and you will make yourself very hard to cover when the season comes. There are plenty videos on you tube showing all the exercises you can do with the agility ladder and examples of these plyometric exercises.
Next let’s focus on catching the football. You can never catch enough balls. There are an array of drills you can do to help with this… one handed catches, rapid fire, and 180’s (where you start with your back to the QB and turn on command as the ball is leaving his hands). Again you can find all of these with research online. Another thing that is very important to catching the football is your grip strength. This is something that goes overlooked but can be as important as anything else you will do. Using gripper is a good way to help with this. Gripping through a bucket of sand or rice and wrist curls are some other exercises you can add to help also.
Lastly, you should also be taking part of your schools summer lifting program. A basic weight training program with help you become more physical and more durable which can be a big benefit one the season comes along.
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