RESOURCES

Outside of my own eBooks and products, there are tons of resources available for football coaches.  Everything listed here is something I can personally vouch for as a valuable tool for coaching football.  I receive a lot of emails asking “Where can I get more info on…”, and this is an effort to put all of those answers in one place.  These are the best of the best that I have found.

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Books

Coaching Football’s 4-3 Defense by Tim Simons gives you everything you need to run the 4-3 Defense at any level. This is the book I first used when installing the 4-3 Defense.

Coaching Football’s 46 Defense by Rex Ryan and Jeff Walker. I do not run the 46 Defense and have no intention of doing so, but I learned a lot about defensive football and in particular defensive line play from this book. Rex Ryan may be a jerk, but he’s also a genius.

Coaching the 3-5-3 Defense from Thomas Cousins is probably the most commonly purchased book by Football-Defense readers. I recommend it because it is complete and simple. You could run this defense successfully at any level. Goes well with the Georgia Military College 3-5-3 videos, too.

Websites

The Complete Defensive Back offers tips on training, nutrition, scheme and technique for Defensive Backs from top level College and NFL DB’s and coaches.  Great source of information for one of the toughest positions on the field.

Videos

Quarters Coverage Made Simple by Shap Boyd. All of my Quarters stuff is stolen from this. Just like it says, simple – and complete.

Encyclopedia of the 3-5-3 Defense from Georgia Military College. Buy the whole pack or individual pieces. I have most of them, but start with Basics of the 3-5-3 if you want to get your feet wet. The defense you see in the 3-5-3 Video Playbook series comes from these.

4-2-5 Defense by Neal Neathery, the most well put together 4-2-5 Defense series so far. This is a defense that is lacking in quality videos. I have not seen the entire series, but heard good things about the other two videos.

Defensive Back Play From A-Z by Nick Rapone, another amazing value with 6 DVDs in one set. Rapone breaks down the position beautifully with drills, techniques, etc. No matter what coverage you run, you can learn a lot from this one.

Strength & Conditioning

StrengthCoach.com by Michael Boyle, a fantastic resource if you are involved in your program’s strength and conditioning.  The site is geared toward professional strength coaches.  Just a huge source of up-to-the-minute information on strength, conditioning, speed, agility, injury prevention and recovery.  Football-specific information as sport-specific info for most other sports.

 

 

 

 

 

Explosive Lifting for Sports by Harvey Newton. I’m partial because Harvey Newton was my instructor for my USA Weightlifting Certification course, but he knows what he is doing. Great book on building a program for any sport.

531 for Football: The Physical Development of a Hostile Team (Ebook) by Jim Wendler is a downloadable eBook on football training using the Wendler 5/3/1 Method for power lifting. I would recommend picking up the original book as well.

Total Football Training with Duane Carlisle is a comprehensive Strength, Speed and Conditioning set.  Goes deeper into information on aspects like recovery, over-training, flexibility, and other issues that we may not pay attention to as amateur strength coaches.  Coach Carlisle may not be exciting in this series, but I learned a ton from it.

Other Resources

CoachTime Practice Timer, an Android application I had created to keep practices on schedule.  I use this application to help our practices run smoothly.  Select the length of your periods, number of periods, and name each period.  CoachTime sounds an alarm to let you know when it is time to change periods.  Search CoachTime on the Android Market on your phone.