Team Warm Up

As everyone knows, warm up, activation, and mobility are all crucial factors that together can take your physical preparedness to new heights. This serves as no problem when training yourself or small groups, but when you have nearly 100 athletes, alternative ways are needed.

One of the first things we did was organize our team into 3 groups, Skill, Semi-Skill, and Bigs. This sets us up well based off there movement drills and allows them to be around guys they play next to while they are grinding it out in the weight room. We then start them with Pre work, followed by "Activation", Movement drills, and of course strength work. Here is a example of a Lower body/Multi directional emphasis day.

Pre Work

Roll-out/Tennis Ball Massage
Hurdle MobilityLateral x2 ea.

Kneeling Lunge 2x6 sec ea.

Wall Stretch HS & Vx15 sec ea.

Dot Drills4-6 Movements 20-25 sec. ea.

Mini-Band Warm-Upx5 each direction
Straight Leg lateral walk
Straight Leg forward walk
Monster Walk Forward & Back
Leg Abduction
Wide March /Tight March
Arm Abduction

Upper Body Warm-Up
Cross-Over Jacks
Seal Claps
Scap Push-ups

Movement

Med Ball circuit

Chest Pass-Kneeling

Overhead pass- Kneeling

Perpendicular Rotational Throw- Kneeling

Lateral Cone Drill

3 Cone Lateral Shuffle

This is in the first week of our progressions so everything is pretty controlled in terms of movement drills. Reinforcing technique, quality of movement, and preparing them for more dynamic/intense drills.