How to Plan and Implement a Positive Culture in a High School Football Off-Season Training Program

A cohesive, communicating and close-knit team develops in the off-season not during the pre-season or in-season. It is too late by then. During Head Football Coach Bill Renner's 30-year high school coaching career, he was able to change three losing high school football programs into disciplined, winning state playoff teams. The change started with a detailed, structured off-season training program that did not just include the typical off-season training protocol of weight lifting, agilities, running, speed and plyometric training. It included core 4 football specific drills, Gut Check Friday workouts, a plan for recruiting the school for players, and GRIT training that taught players to have passion, perseverance, and self-discipline. Each of these areas is detailed in this book, How to Plan and Implement a Positive Culture in a High School Football Off-Season Training Program. Coach Renner tells you what he did to change the mindset of the players, and, how he trained them to become better football players in the off-season, not just to become bigger, faster, and stronger. Coach Renner gives you the off-season goals that drove player and program improvement. He details the training structure that he used to physically and mentally train the players. This structure includes his training calendar, weight lifting cycle program, agility training, speed and plyometric training, the core 4 football position specific drills and how he incorporated GRIT training in each. He details how he taught players to be position leaders with leadership responsibilities. He describes how he used off-season film review meetings, awards, and lifting clubs to teach passion, perseverance and self-discipline, the GRIT traits. In this book you will learn how Coach Renner built his team's physical stature, mental toughness, and team culture in the off-season so that it carried over to team and player success during the season. This book shows you how to create a positive team culture and improve the football ability of a team in the off-season.