Begin in your football stance according to your designated position (guard, linebacker, etc). you are going to pull laterally 5 yards while drop-stepping 2 yards. You then go around a cone, turn and run 10 yards over two bags, one at 4 yards and one at 6 yards. At 10 yards, you touch a line (with your foot), return over the bags to a line, plant, and burst out 5 yards at an angle.

This is the angle at which the athlete must make the judgement. The Gate Drill should be performed eight total times, four to the right and for to left, in an eight-minute period. Cole has five players perform the drill at the same time. Since the drill takes seven to 10 seconds to complete and Cole sends the next player after 10 seconds, it works out to a 5:1 recovery to work ratio. That is, 10 seconds for the drill and 50 seconds to recover.