General Football Topics

Kristopher 
The four stages of building a successful program go as follows:



learning how to compete.

learning how to win

learning how to handle winning—

learning how to become a championship-level program.

A coach must first teach young student-athletes how to compete. In this approach, the coach needs to be intentional or purposeful and gives them opportunities to compete for A because that is greater than themselves. As the leader, the coach should always have a shared vision with his team, but it is also imperative that the team understands the vision and shares the same goals.



Learning how to compete involves being powerful. To do this, players and coaches must practice with passion. Football is a very intense competitive game. That passion needs to be used to fuel the power needed to be successful and to go through the roller coaster ride that comes with practice games and a season.



Learning how to win. There is a ton that goes into succeeding at its core success can be found through the preparedness and the opportunities given. Winning means developing habits of preparing to win. For student-athletes, this needs to begin in the offseason. You cannot just show up at the beginning of fall camp and expect to be successful. Learning how to win means you need to understand What's Important Now. (W.I.N)



Coaches need to be focusing on habits that will help student-athletes be successful in the classroom at home with the family and on the football field. To learn how to win, players have to learn how to take care of their body and your mind. Athletes need to be getting proper rest handling their schoolwork will help prepare them mentally for games.



Learning how to win also means you need to know how to avoid drama and distractions from outside influences. Learning how to win means you need to learn discipline. Student-athletes and coaches must have a disciplined life by not only doing the things that they need but being able to go above and beyond what is being asked of them to be successful. Winning comes when people are not watching.



Discipline does not begin when the ball is kicked off or when practice starts. Discipline starts in student-athletes and coaches' personal lives in the classroom, dining room, and meetings. It begins with how we manage ourselves daily.



Learning how to handle winning. Being able to win consistently is one of the hardest things to do in the sport. When teams begin to win consistently, it becomes very natural for athletes to expect to win regularly. That's when it can be perilous because the ego can get in the way of how you practice and how you approach games. Confidence is a potent human emotion the coaches need to strive to install in their student-athletes with the knowledge that overconfidence can be dangerous if it's not guarded or protected.



Having confidence is essential. You must know what you are capable of achieving. And you must know that you are preparing with the skill set to achieve victory. Eragon's can often exist in false realities. It can lead to complacency and unpreparedness.



Coaches must teach that becoming overconfident and prideful will affect their preparedness for games. Coaches can do that by giving examples of great players who remained humble and continued to learn who continue to work hard even though they are achieving great success on and off the field. Successful programs know how to handle winning. They keep preparing hard and showing respect to the game and for their opponents. They focus on the process and not the product.



The last and final step. Learning how to have a championship-level program. That is where excitement exists in sports. Finding success will transcend sports and help student-athletes and make all critical connections between football and life. When teams can move through the 1st three steps successfully, championship-level will be reached, and a culture of winning will be developed. The winning culture came from determination and hard work, and sacrifice from coaches and student-athletes who had come before them and established how to win and be successful.



The main objectives and philosophy of a solid strength and conditioning program are: 1. to improve on field performance 2. decrease the risk of injury. It is important to create a training atmosphere that will enable each athlete to perform to the best of their ability.



The success of a strength and conditioning program will take a mutual commitment between the strength and conditioning coaches and the athletes. There are no shortcuts when it comes to building a championship program. It will take a lot of hard work, effort, and discipline from every individual involved in the program.



Football is a full contact sport that requires the use of consistent movement. This sport is a team sport that requires individual athletes to use their strength, quickness, agility, flexibility and power.



A successful football player is one that has prepared themselves mentally and with skill by completing an effective workout program.



The goal is to have each athlete reach their maximal potential. The athletes will accomplish this by not just learning skills required to play the game of football but also by developing other necessary components.



Each athlete will be responsible to complete the workout program. Not only will each player be responsible to complete the workout, but they will also be responsible to complete the charts provided.



Each player will understand the improvements they have accomplished through the completion of these charts, they will also see how these improvements from the workout program will help them become better athletes.