Football Fitness
Ladder Youth Movement Games
Develop coordination and agility through games
Football Fitness
Warm Ups
Speed & Agility
Ladder Youth Movement Games is a 10-minute football fitness drill for 4-24 players, suitable for Under 5 to Under 11 at beginner, intermediate level. You need balls, cones. Below you will find the objective, the set-up, how to run it, coaching points, common mistakes, progressions, regressions and variations.
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Fitness Type: Movement
Progressive
Duration
10 min
Players
4-24
Pitch size
22 x 22 yards
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate
Pitch diagram
Ladder Youth Movement Games — 4 gates — score by travelling through · 22 x 22 yards
Step 1 of 5Play tag, follow-the-leader and shadow games inside the square.
- 1. Play tag, follow-the-leader and shadow games inside the square.
- 2. Every game finishes with a dribbling lap of the square.
- 3. Keep rounds short and change the game often.
- 4. Players work through the gates in order, starting with the easiest.
- 5. Players climb the ladder one level for every clean rep and drop a level on a mistake.
- Cones mark the area
- Cone gates to dribble / pass through
- Ball
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Develop coordination and agility through games
- -Build fitness without adult conditioning work
- -Keep every player smiling and moving
Setup
- 1An open square with coloured cones on the corners in a 22 x 22 yards area.
- 2Lay a line of gates increasing in difficulty away from the start cone.
- 3A ball each and plenty of spare cones.
Coaching instructions
- 1Play tag, follow-the-leader and shadow games inside the square.
- 2Every game finishes with a dribbling lap of the square.
- 3Keep rounds short and change the game often.
- 4Players work through the gates in order, starting with the easiest.
- 5Players climb the ladder one level for every clean rep and drop a level on a mistake.
Coaching points
- -Movement should look like play, not training
- -Change direction often
- -Short games, frequent changes
- -Earn the next level with control rather than speed
Common mistakes
- -Long runs with no ball
- -Adult conditioning drills for young players
- -Skipping levels and losing quality
Where this drill fits
- More football football fitness drills
- More football warm ups drills
- More football speed & agility drills
- football drills for U8s
- football drills for U10s
- football drills for beginners
- Football session plans built around this theme