‘Feed the Cats’ Sprint Coach Tony Holler
Update: 2021-06-04
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More and more football coaches are taking their cues from a high school track coach in Plainfield, Ill. Tony Holler invented a revolutionary new method of training sprinters at Plainfield North High (Ill.) called “Feed the Cats.” It’s a minimalist approach to training which discourages putting sprinters through long workouts that make them feel crushed by the end. Topics include:
- Why sprint training needed to be done differently (2:30 )
- What is the Feed the Cats program? (4:45 )
- Why it took courage to do something differently (7:10 )
- How he fills practice time with so few reps (11:30 )
- How often athletes should be training at top speed (14:35 )
- Record, record and publish (18:05 )
- Never crush the physical or emotional soul of athletes (22:10 )
- Micro-dose training (25:35 )
- How does this impact injuries? (32:00 )
- What technology helps coach? (36:35 )
- Do you ever hear from parents who say you need to be training them harder? (39:55 )
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