Maximizing Your Offensive Circuit Drills – Overall blocking can be improved with a progression of drills.

Overall blocking can be improved with a progressions of drills.During the football season time to prepare and practice is very precious. We tend to spend all of our time on “scheming” the opponent and very little on fundamentals. Because of the importance of fundamentals, we have decided to build them into our practice schedule. We call them the “Fundamental 5” or “Fun 5” for short. The first one is blocking by the entire offensive unit.Blocking is the one skill that all players have in common; therefore, we train them all the same. Once practice begins, all offensive players gather in a circle around me. I number them 1-5 and send them to coaches that are in a large circle surrounding the hash marks (5 stations). Each station will train the players in the first drill of the blocking progression, “Fit”. After 60 seconds we blow a whistle and the players rotate clockwise