Video: Football Fitness Drills For Defensive Backs

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Learn some important conditioning drills for defensive backs in football in this free video clip on sports health and fitness.

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We're working with our defensive backs and linebackers right now. What we want to get these guys good at, is when they start in with their back peddle and they read the quarterback, we want them to be able to react quickly to a pass. So this first drill is, our defender is going to start dropping and back peddling, and I'm going to start throwing. And he's going to quickly react to it. And he is hopefully going to open his hips if he does it right and go get the ball, as he would be to try to intercept the ball. So, we'll have Matt go first here. Set, hut. You see how he quickly reacted to the ball and he went and got it. Now, Blake is going to do the same thing here. All right, come a little bit closer to me to start with. Set, hut. He's going to try to read my eyes, and then he's going to try to go get the pass. All right, now let?s have both of you side by side here. This next drill is we try to always teach our defensive backs to open their hips to the ball to the way the quarterback is going. So we're going to have them start in a back peddle and as they see the ball move, they want to open their hips in that directions so that they can kind of figure out if the ball is going that way. And to kind of guess ahead of the quarterback. So we're going to have these guys follow the ball and open their hips as they go. Set, hut. Good. And that?s just a couple of drills you can do to work with your defensive backs to get them quick to react to the pass.

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Football Fitness Drills For Defensive Backs

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