An athletic training device for training football players. The device comprises a pair of spaced opposed upper rails and a pair of spaced opposed lower rails defining a passsageway through which a football player can run. On each rail are mounted a plurality of ring-like resilient, resister members extending laterally inwardly toward each other to provide barriers to resist the movement of the player through the passageway. The arcuate resister members are comprised of automobile tires and are spaced in a horizontally extending, staggered relationship. The rails are supported by a framework. In addition, a boom element may be rigidly affixed to the frame, extending laterally outwardly thereof to provide a support for a suspended tackling dummy or the like.
A blocking sled for use in training football players includes runners which the player straddles to train him to keep his feet apart. The coach rides on a platform behind the athlete watching the athlete move forward and push the dummy at the front while keeping his body low and below chute bars above him. Outriggers outside the runners give the sled stability.
A gauntlet athletic sled for use by football trainers has a sled frame with spaced apart side sections defining a runway between them from a front end to a rear end. A front to rear extending series of readily removable, position adjustable inflated resilient arms project from the side sections laterally into the runway to create a predetermined obstacle path simulating the arms and hands of would be tacklers, which must be deflected aside to permit passage of the runner down the pathway. The varied pressure of arm inflation controls the resistance to passage of the runner proceeding down the runway.
An apparatus for assisting an individual in training for a long jump, wherein the long jump includes a long jump runway and a long jump pit. The training apparatus includes a launching board positioned on the runway to propel a jumper into the apparatus. The apparatus has a frame assembly with a top portion, a bottom portion, a front portion, and a pair of opposing side portions. Each of the side portions has a lower flexible member extending therefrom which is positioned to allow a jumper's respective legs to pass thereover. The frame assembly also has an upper flexible member positioned to contact a jumper's chest. Alternatively, the training apparatus includes a plurality of separate movable elements, instead of an integral frame assembly.
