01
Backpedal
Protect your cushion and stay square.
Run It Up Sport Performance
You Are Not Slow. You Are Getting Beat On The Break.
Fluid hips. Clean breaks. Locked-in press technique. The ability to transition out of your backpedal and drive on a route without losing a step.
That's what separates DBs who make plays from DBs who watch them get made.
This is position-specific DB development. Footwork, body control, press man, off-man coverage techniques, change of direction, and the fundamentals that have to be automatic before any of it works in a game. Built for youth through college. Coached by someone who has lived the position.
The only question is whether you're ready to put in the work.
200+
Football athletes trained
15
Division 1 athletes
30
High school All-Americans
83
Drill videos
Five Moves. Everything Else Is Built On Them.
02
Weave
Hold your leverage when he stems on you.
03
Hip Flip
Flip out of your pedal and get in phase when he breaks your cushion.
04
Breaks
Plant, drive, and get downhill on the route.
05
Kickslide
Where press starts. Win with your feet at the line and you stay on him from the snap.
Every drill in every guide links to a video of it run full speed.
Who You Are Training With
I played defensive back at the Division 1 level and finished my college career at Concordia University Ann Arbor. I founded Run It Up Sport Performance in 2020 and I have coached defensive backs at the high school level as a position coach and a coordinator. I am ISSA certified and I train the defensive back position specifically, not general athletics.
The Training Library
Pick the piece you need, or take the whole thing.
Complete DB Training Bundle
$59.99
$110 of product, separately
63 PAGES · 80 DRILL VIDEOS · 4 PROGRAMS
Most DBs train the wrong thing. They run gassers and lift heavy and never once work the movement they actually make forty times a game. This is the whole off-season in one file. Press work at the line, footwork and breaks in space, and eight weeks in the weight room built for a defensive back instead of a lineman.
- Press Man Drill Package, 35 videos
- DB Elite Field Drills Guide Vol. 2, 37 videos
- DB Beginner Field Drills Guide Vol. 1, 10 videos
- 8-Week Strength Training Plan, plus nutrition and 10 core circuits
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DB Beginner Field Drills Guide Vol. 1
$15
7 PAGES · 10 DRILL VIDEOS
Before you worry about press technique or reading a route, you need feet that work and hips that move. Ten drills: backpedal, 90, 45 and 0 breaks, crossover run, T-step, lateral push.
Technique
DB Elite Field Drills Guide Vol. 2
$35
12 PAGES · 37 DRILL VIDEOS
You can backpedal. Can you flip out of it when he breaks your cushion, stay in your frame, and still drive on the ball? 10 ladder drills, 7 break drills, 5 crossover run, 5 hip flip, 4 weave, 6 change of direction.
Press Man Drill Package
$30
12 PAGES · 35 DRILL VIDEOS
Press is not about how hard you jam. You win with your feet first. Get your hands on him with dead feet and he is gone the second he releases. Base drills, motor press, kickslide, and press to in-phase.
Physical
8-Week Strength Training Plan
$30
32 PAGES · 8 WEEKS · 4 DAYS A WEEK
A DB does not need a lineman's program. Two phases: foundation and progressive overload, then a push-pull split for explosive output. Includes nutrition, food lists, and 10 core circuits. This is a written program with no drill videos.
4-Week Speed & Agility Program
$25
17 PAGES · 4 WEEKS · 3 DAYS A WEEK
Playing DB means hitting top speed, stopping, and doing it again. Sprints building 20 to 40 to 60 to 75 yards, shuttles, reaction drills, hill and stair work. Written program, no drill videos.
Everything, Programmed
12 Week Ultimate DB Program
$40
61 PAGES · 38 DRILL VIDEOS · 12 WEEKS
Eight weeks of lifting, four weeks of speed, and every field drill in between. One plan from the day the season ends to the day camp starts.
83 Drills. Watch Six Of Them Right Now.
Every guide links to full speed video. Here is what that looks like.
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