Football Conditioning Drills Video on Demand

In Football Conditioning Drills, strength and conditioning coaches Pat Ivey and Josh Stoner demonstrate many of the same exercises and drills they use to develop speed, power, strength, and agility with the game’s premier collegiate and professional players.

In this program, you’ll view demonstrations of six warm-up drills you can use to get athletes’ muscles loosened and blood flowing in preparation of your workouts and practices. Following the warm-up drills are a dozen mat and cone drills designed to improve players’ agility and quickness. Sprints, lateral shuffles, back pedals, carioca, and forward rolls are incorporated in the drills, which will test even the most highly conditioned athletes.

Football requires a high level of conditioning in several areas to excel at every position on the field. Football Conditioning Drills helps players build the physical skills needed to excel on the gridiron.

Drill Progression

Warm-up and flexibility drills

Mat drills

Cone drills

Pat Ivey is the assistant vice chancellor at the University of Missouri. He was previously the university’s associate athletic director for athletic performance and director of strength and conditioning. During his tenure at Missouri, he helped produce multiple first-round draft picks. He was also the director of strength and conditioning at the University of Tulsa from 2002 to 2004, where he directed the efforts of all 18 sport programs.

Ivey lettered as a defensive end for the Missouri football team from 1993 to 1995 and was named the strongest athlete in the program’s history in 1995. He was signed by the San Diego Chargers after college and spent two seasons with the team. He also went on to play with the Denver Broncos and Green Bay Packers.

In 2012, Ivey was certified as Master Strength and Conditioning Coach by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa), the highest honor given in the strength and conditioning coaching profession.

Josh Stoner is the director of sport performance at Texas A&M University–Commerce. He was previously the director of speed, strength, and conditioning at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, and the director of strength and conditioning at the University of Missouri, where the football program produced four first-round NFL draft picks in four years under his guidance. In addition to being responsible for the athletic development of the football team, he was in charge of the throws portion of Missouri's track and field team.

As the assistant director of strength and conditioning at the University of Tulsa from 2002 to 2004, Stoner assisted with the football player development program. He was also responsible for the women’s basketball, men’s soccer, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, track and field, and cross country teams.

From the book Complete Conditioning for Football

“Complete Conditioning for Football is packed with conditioning and training workouts for every position. Coach Ivey and Coach Stoner have created a one-stop resource for owning the line of scrimmage.”

Andy Reid—Head Coach, Kansas City Chiefs