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Tony Holler is the track coach at Plainfield North High School. Tony retired from teaching chemistry after 38 years in the classroom and has 44 years of coaching experience (football, basketball, and track). Tony Holler is a member of Illinois Track & Field Hall of Fame and Co-director of Track Football Consortium along with Chris Korfist. Holler created the revolutionary "Feed the Cats" in 1999. Tony Holler is the son of 47-year high school and college basketball coach Don Holler. Tony is the father of four, including two successful coaches, Alec Holler (Edwardsville H.S.) and Quinn Holler (Andrew H.S.).  Tony Holler has diversified his “Feed the Cats'' message for all sports and the classroom. Tony has consulted with the New York Yankees who fed the cats in their 2022 spring training. He's also consulted with college lacrosse (Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Penn, Arizona State, and Northwestern). Princeton made the NCAA Final Four in 2022 for the first time in 18 years with “Feed the Tigers''.  Hundreds of high school football teams now use a FTC approach (also known as “Sprint-Based Football”). Eight sprint-based football teams won state championships last fall.  Tony Holler has presented his content in 29 different states. In addition, he's done multiple presentations in England, Ireland, and France. He speaks next September in Brazil. Tony also does presentations at football and lacrosse clinics. In the past two years, Tony has done several Feed the Cats Seminars which include nine hours of instruction over a 24-hour period. FTC Seminars are a one-man show.  Tony Holler's Feed the Cats DVD was the #1 best-seller for Championship Production for all sports in 2018. It has been the #1 best-seller from 2018 to 2022 in the track and field category. Holler's most recent content can be found at CoachTube, where he has, again, broken sales records.  Tony Holler was recently named as a “Prime Nine Speaker” for Glazier Football Clinics.  Instagram: @CoachTonyHoller Twitter: @pntrack YouTube: @CoachTonyHoller Website: FeedTheCats.com Timestamps: 00:00 Trailer and introduction 06:25 Athletic goals for older adults 11:43 Embracing microdosing and sprinting benefits 18:22 Teaching proper sprint mechanics 24:53 Reflecting on past speed potential 30:02 Efficient sprint training strategies 37:10 Lactate efficiency training 39:39 Breaking a record: Sprinting and suffering 44:51 Optimizing speed and agility 50:59 Variety and timing 58:13 Sprinters 01:04:26 Indoor speed drills in cold climates 01:05:26 Sunshine's role in dopamine boost Revero Clinic for treating chronic diseases: https://revero.com Join Revero Now to transform your health: https://revero.com/membership Join the Revero team (medical providers, etc): https://revero.com/jobs ‪#Revero #ReveroHealth #shawnbaker  #Carnivorediet #MeatHeals #AnimalBased #ZeroCarb #DietCoach  #FatAdapted #Carnivore #sugarfree Disclaimer: The content on this channel is not medical advice. Please consult your healthcare provider. ‪#revero #shawnbaker #Carnivorediet #MeatHeals #HealthCreation   #humanfood #AnimalBased #ZeroCarb #DietCoach  #FatAdapted #Carnivore #sugarfree  ‪

Rob Assise is a jumps coach and mathematics teacher at Homewood Flossmoor High School (2023 Illinois State Track Champions). He is also a writer, a regular “Track Football Consortium” speaker, and a multi-time guest on this podcast. In addition to high school sports, he owns the private training business Re-Evolution Athletics. Having good reactivity in the feet carries nuance with it. Some athletes can use their feet exceptionally well for sprinting or straight-ahead pursuits. Others have foot dynamics that allow them a better conversion of horizontal energy to vertical. Ultimately, the goal is to understand why athletes use their strategies and find areas of improvement specific to the individual. On today's podcast, Rob covers ideas on intersections of sprint and jumps training in track and field, athletic asymmetry, plyometric coaching, speed and power complexes, and a nuanced discussion on the nature of foot placement in sprinting and plyometrics, on the level of both performance and injury prevention. Rob is a humble and experienced coach, and I've always loved having a chance to sit down and talk training with him. Today's episode is brought to you by TeamBuildr's Gym Studio, and the Plyomat Use the code “justfly25” for 25% off of any Lila Exogen wearable resistance training, including the popular Exogen Calf Sleeves. For this offer head to: Lilateam.com The Plyomat is a functional, intuitive and affordable contact mat for jump and plyometric training and testing.  Check out the Plyomat at plyomat.net View more podcast episodes at the podcast homepage. Main Points 1:00- Using Sprint Float Sprint Methods in Track Jumpers 10:00- Understanding Sprinting Better by Being a Jumps Coach 21:03- Enhancing Sprint Performance through Training Variety 27:00- Impact of Sports Tools on Running Mechanics 30:17- Utilizing Asymmetry for Optimal Athletic Performance 31:55- Addressing Athlete Asymmetry for Optimal Performance 42:31- RSI Scores and Foot-Ground Interaction Patterns 48:24- PVC Pipe Balancing for Foot Strength 55:54- Enhancing Athletic Performance Through Varied Plyometrics 57:54- Enhancing Sprinting Performance Through Plyometrics 1:02:01- Dynamic Foot Contact Options for Performance Optimization 1:02:01- Dynamic Foot Placements Enhance Plyometric Training 1:03:06- Enhancing Plyometric Performance Through Midfoot Engagement Quotes (7:43) "The best thing that happened to me as a sprint coach was focusing on the jumps. It just allowed me to kind of see things from a little bit of different perspective because on the Runway you're really not at maximum speed." (15:49) "When you do things that the brain finds interesting, your brain doesn't give a damn about volume." (32:20) “In general, when we're looking at asymmetry with a 1080 or something, like bounding, hopping, whatever, I usually just use, like, a 10% marker. So, like, if that asymmetry is greater than 10% or maybe approaching 10%, maybe we're going to tease in some things to try to get a little bit more of a balance” (42:31) “I've had sprinters who have had crazy good RSi scores. And they come over to the jumps and I'll have them, like, bound or hop, and they're going to have a contact that's more flat or rolling and they just can't do it. It looks like incredibly labored. It's like they just don't want to. They almost refuse to contact that rear part of their foot” (44:30) "Those athletes who struggle accessing that rear part of their foot, they were more prone to hamstring injuries." (48:52) “Very few people are going to hit a forefoot contact gallop” About Rob Assise Rob Assise has 20+ years of experience teaching mathematics and coaching track and field at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. He also has coached football and cross country, and is also the owner of the private training business, Re-evolution athletics. Additional writing of his can be found at Simplifaster,

Rob Assise has over 20 years of experience teaching mathematics and coaching track and field at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. He has a huge passion for jumps but has also coached football and cross country. Rob owns and operates Re-Evolution Athletics LLCT, which provides private/small group/remote training, digital products, and consultation. Assise has been a contributor for Track Football Consortium, Just Fly Sports, and ITCCCA.In his tenure he has coached 128 state qualifiers, 84 of which reached all-state status during his time with the Homewood-Flossmoor High School Track and Field Program. Coach Assise has certificationsfrom: USTFCCCA (Technical), USTFCCCA (Jumps Specialist), Reflexive Performance Reset (Level 3), and Neurotyping Systemhttps://x.com/hfjumps?s=21https://reevolutionathletics.sellfy.store/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGGcZDZk_O6w7dydLt7bQsghttps://youtube.com/@platesandpancakes4593https://instagram.com/voodoo4power?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=https://voodoo4ranch.com/To possibly be a guest or support the show email Voodoo4ranch@gmail.comhttps://www.paypal.com/paypalme/voodoo4ranch

Coach Brad Fortney is the Performance and Wellness Coach for the Enterprise City Schools. Coach Fortney is the Head Girls Track and Field Coach specializing in sprinting and throwing. He is an assistant varsity football coach for inside linebackers. Coach Fortney is originally from Illinois where he played football and ran track. He attended Carthage College in Kenosha Wisconsin where he was an all conference athlete. Upon graduating he moved into coaching and the teaching field. He has worked with multiple teams on performance and wellness earning him the Kenosha Unified Coach of the year in 2018. He is a contributor to the Track Football Consortium. He brings an aspect of speed and wellness to all the teams he coaches. A great interview with Coach Fortney, he can discuss multiple aspects of sports at a very high level. It takes very little time to realize that he has devoted his life to helping young athletes find a new level in sports and lifehttps://youtube.com/@platesandpancakes4593https://instagram.com/voodoo4power?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=https://voodoo4ranch.com/To possibly be a guest or support the show email Voodoo4ranch@gmail.comhttps://www.paypal.com/paypalme/voodoo4ranch

Garrett Mueller is the head football coach of Stewartville Minnesota. Garrett has moved his team in an athlete centered direction with a sprint based approach. Garrett believes in a strong culture where the players mental and physical well being is the utmost priority. His team follows a servant leadership based approach. They have moved up the rankings each year with Coach Mueller at the helm. His approach has helped him become a TFC  contributor (Track Football Consortium) https://youtube.com/@platesandpancakes4593https://instagram.com/voodoo4power?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=https://voodoo4ranch.com/To possibly be a guest or support the show email Voodoo4ranch@gmail.comhttps://www.paypal.com/paypalme/voodoo4ranch

Today's episode features Tony Holler.  Tony is the track coach at Plainfield North High School with 39 years of coaching experience in football, basketball, and track.  He is the originator of the “Feed the Cats” training system that has not only found immense popularity in the track and field world, but the team sport coaching world as well.  Tony is the co-director of the Track Football Consortium along with Chris Korfist, and has been a two-time prior guest on the podcast.  Tony's ideas of a speed-based culture, and rank-record-publish are making large waves in the coaching world. It's been said that “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”.  In the coaching world, the desire to be “well-prepared” for one's sport can easily lead to an excessive amount of conditioning and overall training volume done too early in the season, creating ground for injuries to happen.  It's extremely easy to just “do more”.  It takes wisdom and management of one's coaching validation to start the journey of doing less. On today's show, Tony goes in detail on his evolution in his “Feed the Cats” coaching system, from the pre-2008 period where he had no electronic timing, to some of the worst workouts he had his athletes do before that critical year-2000 split where he removed things like tempo sprinting (the t-word) from his programming, and centered his program around being the best part of an athlete's day.  We'll get into how Feed the Cats is working into team sport training and “conditioning”, and then go in detail on Tony's speed-training culture built on love, joy, and recognition.  Tony will speak on the “art of surrender” in goal setting, his X-factor workouts, and much more in this conversation of almost 2 hours.  When you are speaking to someone like Tony, the two hours flies by, and you have a spring in your coaching step afterwards. Today's episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, Lost Empire Herbs, and the Elastic Essentials online course. For 15% off your Lost Empire Herbs order, head to lostempireherbs.com/justfly. To try Pine Pollen for FREE (just pay for shipping), head to: justflypinepollen.com View more podcast episodes at the podcast homepage. Timestamps and Main Points: 3:49 – The “worst” workout that Tony administered to his sprinters before the year 2000 when “Feed the Cats” started, and Tony's thoughts on those kids who “survived” that type of training 11:38 – Thoughts on the “Feed the Cats” system as a “base” system for a college sprint program that will likely have more volume and intensive training means 18:49 – Psychological elements of Tony's program, and the counter-intuitive elements of “not training” for things like back-to-back races at the state championship meet 24:49 – What Tony did for “feed the cats” iterations before his first timing system in 2008, and what the original “feed the cats” workouts were from 2000-2007 31:41 – The idea of being more “sensitized for speed endurance” through an off-season based on feed the cats 35:50 – Joy and love as a foundational force of speed training in the “feed the cats” system 39:36 – Some other elements of Tony's early “feed the cats” days compared to now, and what he has cut out of the program 48:27 – How to use wrist bands with 20-24mph engravings to reinforce team culture and motivation 57:00 – Tony's experience of moving FTC into a team sport space, and stories from team sport coaches 1:06:50 – Thoughts on using sport itself as conditioning and essentialism in sport training and conditioning 1:23:05 – Transcending older programs, thought processes in programming, and surrendering to the results 1:31:36 – The present-mindedness of training, and what it means to train like a child 1:36:11 – If Tony's arm was twisted, would he put in one of the following: A 20' meeting prior to practice, 6-8x200m tempo, or weightlifting, in his FTC practice 1:40:15 – Some nuts and bolts to Tony's X-facto...

This episode is a recording of the LTAD Chat on Speed Development, hosted by Joe Eisenmann with guests Tony Holler and John Garrish. Tony Holler is the track coach at Plainfield North High School outside of Chicago, Illinois. Tony retired from teaching chemistry after 38 years in the classroom and has 40 years of coaching experience in American Football, Basketball and Track & Field. Tony is member of Illinois Track & Field Hall of Fame and Co-director of Track Football Consortium along with Chris Korfist. Tony created the revolutionary "Feed the cats" in 19999 and plans to publish his first book in 2022. John Garrish is the Director of Athletic Development & Performance at North Broward Prep School in Florida, and also serves as the Director of Athletic Performance for the Florida Rugby Union 7s. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Wagner College, where he participated in Track & Field, and a Masters in Kinesiology & Exercise Science from the University of North Texas where he was also an intern with the Strength & Conditioning Program. In this chat they cover: The phases of speed. Testing and evaluation of speed. Teaching and coaching the biomechanics of acceleration and maximal velocity sprinting. The role of strength training and plyometrics in speed development. Programming for speed development. Get your discounted early bird ticket to LTAD Network Conference here! The 2022 Conference runs from 9-10th July at Hartpury University with a selection of world class speakers! Don't miss out! Get more details and secure your place here! To learn more about the LTAD Network check out www.ltadnetwork.com or follow on Instagram: @ltadnetwork or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ltadnetwork . You can keep up to date with Athletic Evolution via our www.athleticevolution.co.uk , Instagram: @athleticevouk and Twitter: @athleticevouk .

In this episode we chat with Chris Korfist owner of Slow Guy Speed School in Chicago Illinois.  Chris is a successful track and field coach at Homewood-Flossmoor High school and he runs the Slow Guy Speed school in his basement and on his street.  Chris has state finalist in 100 and 200m dashes and relays each year.  Korfist was the 2nd person in America with a 1080 Sprint. Korfist also trains NFL running back David Montgomery along with 4 other NFL players.  He is part owner of the Track Football Consortium and RPR.  We talk all things speed in this episode . Enjoy

Presented By:  www.exxentric.com/speedandpower Rob Assise is a track and field at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. He has also coached football and cross country. You can find his articles at Track Football Consortium, Just Fly Sports, Simplifaster, and ITCCCA.    https://www.instagram.com/hfjumps/  Checkout my Multidirectional Plyometric Course:  www.multidirectionalpower.com  

Keir Wenham-Flatt is a high performance consultant based in the USA, who has worked with elite level rugby players all over the globe in places like the UK, China, Australia, Argentina and Japan. Keir's career highlights include: - NSCA CSCS accredited - Science for Sport Top 100 professionals in sport - NSCA Coaches Convention presenter - Track Football Consortium presenter - Central Virginia Sports Performance Seminar presenter - Speaker at Arsenal Football Club (Multiple time EPL and FA cup Champions) - Northampton Saints Rugby Club (English Premiership Rugby Champions) - Notre Dame Football (multiple time National College Football Champions) - Newell's Old Boys (multiple time Argentina Primerliga Champions) - Worked in 5 different countries at the highest level of rugby union and rugby league - NCAA Div 1 Coordinator of Football Performance - Featured in national media including BBC, Mens Health, Mens Fitness, Muscle & Fitnesshttps://strengthcoachnetwork.com/

2021 Track Football Consortium presenter, Dr. Ken Clark, is an Associate Professor in Kinesiology at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. Ken's primary focus is in the underlying mechanical factors in athletic performance and teaching speed and how the two go hand-in-hand. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ontrackandfield/message

J.T. sits down with 2022 Track Football Consortium presenter JB Morin, who holds a PhD in Sport Science. JB breaks down, in simple terms, the science of acceleration, maximum, and overspeed training and how and when to apply it and how to schedule the proper workout program for your team and athletes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ontrackandfield/message

London based Jonas Dodoo, a 2021 Track Football Consortium presenter and the head coach at SpeedWorks Training, a program designed to maximize athlete's sprinting ability joins this week's podcast. Jonas shares very specific cues and techniques with J.T. that he uses with all his athletes proving that every athlete can get faster. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ontrackandfield/message

This week, J.T. talks with 5x Region Coach of the Year & 3x National Assistant Coach of the Year Ernie Clark about all things hurdle and sprints training. Ernie shares how he structures his workouts so that every rep is a competitive rep and how he maximizes training with his athletes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ontrackandfield/message

One of the top U.S. T&F coaches today, Dan Pfaff sits with J.T. this week and talks all things training and dives deep into how he implements his own training philosophy in everyday practices. Dan also discusses the importance of mentors and how to network among coaches and touches on the upcoming Track Football Consortium where he's one of the top presenters. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ontrackandfield/message

This week's guest, Tony Holler, is co-creator of the upcoming Track Football Consortium coaching clinic. A virtual coaching clinic that brings together track, football and strength coaches with one goal in mind – to improve the speed and power of today's athlete. J.T. and Tony discuss the December event, it's presenters and why you should listen to them and of course, Tony's Feed the Cats sprints program. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ontrackandfield/message

On today's episode of RTP we once again talk with Tony Holler. Coach Holler is the creator of Feed The Cats and co-creator of the Track Football Consortium. Listen as we talk with Coach Holler about this past summer's TFC-Texas and TFC-Iowa, along with a number of other topics regarding speed, practice planning, and athlete recovery. You can follow Coach Holler on Twitter @pntrack or @TFConsortium. This episode of Run the Power is brought to you by Legend Rings. Legend Rings is THE official ring supplier of Run The Power podcast. The team at Legend Rings wants to help you celebrate your regional and state championship title this season! Their goal is to make your championship ring purchase simple, easy, and affordable from design to delivery! Check them out at www.LegendRings.com or email INFO@legendrings.com to get started, let them know that Run The Power sent you and they will make your ring for free! This episode of Run The Power is brought to you by TeamBuildr. TeamBuildr is offering a full-year 52-week Football strength and conditioning program that comes Free with any TeamBuildr free trial. As you may recall, the New England Patriots squat up to 90% of their 1-Rep Max deep into the playoffs. If your in-season strength and conditioning philosophy is to "maintain," then you are doing it wrong. You can get the program once you start a 14-day trial with TeamBuildr. Just reach out and tell them that you heard from Rowdy and the RTP podcast or use Code RTP when you sign up for your free trial at TeamBuildr.com

On episode 26 I sat down with Brad Dixon, Head coach of football at Camp Point Central High school in Illinois. Coach Dixon first shares what led him down the pathway to sprint based football, in this portion of the conversation Coach Dixon shares some of the ideas from his article They Just Want the damn Recipe. He talks about conversations that he had with coach Tony Holler and how that facilitated his realization that in order to build anything useable and substantial you must first learn how to cook for yourself. Coach Dixon highlights how through trial and error he was able to build a regimen that works best for him. This is a concept that Coach Dixon alludes to multiple times, there is not a one size fits all approach. Sprint based football takes a different approach to more traditional methods, Coach Dixon discusses how his paradigm shifted from trying to throw as much as you can in practice, to trying to facilitate and grow through the week and letting the real performance happen on Friday's beneath the lights. Coach Dixon highlights how a typical sprint based week looks at his high school, that all starts by giving the kids the weekend off to recover. Mondays start with the focus which is sprinting, with some film and board work to prep for the week. Tuesday is what Coach Dixon refers to as a fundamental day, where athletes will be in helmets going over fundamentals and game situations. Wednesday is the only day of the week where athletes will go full gear in their preparation. Thursday is a more traditional walk through as they finalize their prep for the week. Friday is game day and in Coach Dixon's lens it is a sprint day. Coach Dixon really speaks to not wasting time in practice and getting what needs to be done accomplished while leaving the needless volume and fluff on the table. The sprint based model mirrors that of feed the cats; therefore, we discuss the minimum effective dose and how he justifies the correct dosage for his team to be competitive. We discuss some of the common misconceptions based around sprint based football. Coach Dixon throws out a wonderful line of logic that toughness is task specific and that he wants athletes that are precise. We end our conversation by discussing how he facilitates speed work away from the competitive season. Coach Dixon discusses how he likes to utilize variance in his speed drill work to show athletes different mechanical issues that they need to work on. A lot of this work is built into the warm up section of a work out and can be facilitated year around to work on important running mechanics. Coach Dixon shares how his athletic enhancement PE allows for him to make the weight room a constant for not only his athletes in football but all athletes at his school. Check out the links below for some of Coach Dixon's writings at Track Football Consortium based on many of the topics discussed today. http://trackfootballconsortium.com/they-just-want-the-damn-recipe/ https://trackfootballconsortium.com/how-to-cook/ https://tfc.coachesclinic.com/speakers/brad-dixon/

I was lucky enough to have Dan Fichter on the podcast to discuss enhancing sports performance through neurology. Dan owns and operates Wanna Get Fast near Rochester, New York. He is a pioneer of using neurology to enhance athletic performance, and he has helped numerous athletes from a variety of sports... including track and football. In fact, Dan is going to be speaking at the Track Football Consortium in Ankeny later this month. I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as I did. https://trackfootballconsortium.com/

On this episode I sit down with Dan Fichter of Irondequoit high School and Wannagetfast. We cover a lot of topics relating to Neurology and how to effectively utilize brain based solutions to drive effective training and aid with recovery. Our first topic is based around where he likes to start athletic development. We discuss his rationale for utilizing isometrics to help develop postural and positional awareness in his athletes and the benefits derived from that. We spend time covering how only focusing on voluntary movement misses the majority of the driver for locomotion the reflexive actions. We discuss how this pertains to speed and how the reflexive system affects speed development. Dan discusses the rationale behind Cross Crawl patterning and how to utilize it to effectively stimulate the brain and brain stem following bilateral exercise. We discuss the different variations of isometrics and the rationale behind different methods. We discuss inputting chaos into the system and allowing self organization through perturbations within training. We also spend some time talking about neuro based warm ups and Dan offers an example of how his team warms up before a game ( including freestyle, breathing in a position of power, Increasing Heart rate, bouncing, signal 6, and different methods of rolling, rocking and crawling to stimulate the vestibular and brain stem. We end the conversation by discussing different methods of recovery that he utilizes to keep his players fresh, efficient, and healthy. This is a great episode jam packed with a lot of rationale behind why you can benefit from taking the brain and reflexive system into account for athletic development. Dan list a lot of great resources that follow the same rationale such as prior guest Shawn Sherman(square1Systems) Mat Boule(IP institut) and Track Football Consortium. Dan will be at both Track Football Consortiums this summer in Texas July 9-10th and Iowa July 23-24th, so if you don't have anything going on, and even if you do jump over to one of the locations and check him and the stellar line up they have this summer. Square 1 Systems http://www.square1system.com/ Ip Institut https://institutip.com/?lang=en Dan's social media Twitter and Instagram @WGF1 Track Football Consortium https://trackfootballconsortium.com/

Tony Holler Interview (August 2017) Jon chats with Tony Holler about sprint training. We first heard about Tony when he was interviewed by Anthony Renna on the STRENGTH COACH podcast, and we immediately connected with his message... LESS IS MORE. We very much appreciate Tony's insight and experience, and it is our hope that ALL high school track coaches listen to this very important episode. Tony Holler is the track coach at Plainfield North High School. Tony retired from teaching chemistry after 38 years in the classroom and has 39 years of coaching experience (football, basketball, and track). Tony Holler is a member of Illinois Track & Field Hall of Fame and Co-director of Track Football Consortium.

Retired Chemistry teacher (38 years in classroom), 25 yrs coaching football, 15 yrs basketball, 40 yrs track (presently head track coach at Plainfield North H.S. (IL, Chicago area). Co-owner Track Football Consortium. Owner "Feed the Cats". Writer. Public Speaker. #1 selling DVD at Championship Productions, 2019 and 2020. Currently creating Feed the Cats Certification Program for CoachTube.   Coach’s Contact Information Twitter: @pntrack Email: tony.holler@yahoo.com   ________________________________________________________ TeamBuildr Thank you TeamBuildr for sponsoring today's episode. Teambuildr is the leading software for high schools and colleges by providing coaches the ability to write programs online, generate over 13 reports and even train athletes remotely for side-income. Right now, if you sign up with code BigTime, you will receive a free APRE programming template which works automatically within TeamBuildr. No more spreadsheets and workout cards to track training maxes that change day by day. Automate your programming without outsourcing your programming with TeamBuildr." af.tbldr.co/BigTime _______________________________________________________ Power Lift Power Lift is the leading manufacturer and distributor of heavy duty strength training equipment for Collegiate and High School athletic performance centers around the world. Power Lift brings over 20 years of experience to the strength and conditioning world. All products are manufactured in their state of the art manufacturing facility in Jefferson, IA.  Power Lift is proud to support all coaches making it the Big Time where they are at. Mike Richardson - mrichardson@power-lift.com _______________________________________________________ Big Time Strength Contact Info Email: bigtimestrength@gmail.com Twitter: @BigTime_SC,  Instagram: bigtimestrength Gage Rosier Contact Info Twitter: @gdrosier Instagram: g.rosier Preston Pedersen Contact Info Twitter: @CoachPedersenMV Instagram: coach_pedersen Amanda Berg Contact Info Twitter: @ChargerTough Instagram: chargertough Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe, like, share, or leave a comment. ___________________________________________________ TeamBuildr Thank you TeamBuildr for sponsoring today's episode. Teambuildr is the leading software for high schools and colleges by providing coaches the ability to write programs online, generate over 13 reports and even train athletes remotely for side-income. Right now, if you sign up with code BigTime, you will receive a free APRE programming template which works automatically within TeamBuildr. No more spreadsheets and workout cards to track training maxes that change day by day. Automate your programming without outsourcing your programming with TeamBuildr." af.tbldr.co/BigTime _______________________________________________________ Power Lift Power Lift is the leading manufacturer and distributor of heavy duty strength training equipment for Collegiate and High School athletic performance centers around the world. Power Lift brings over 20 years of experience to the strength and conditioning world. All products are manufactured in their state of the art manufacturing facility in Jefferson, IA.  Power Lift is proud to support all coaches making it the Big Time where they are at. Mike Richardson - mrichardson@power-lift.com _______________________________________________________ Big Time Strength Contact Info Email: bigtimestrength@gmail.com Twitter: @BigTime_SC,  Instagram: bigtimestrength Gage Rosier Contact Info Twitter: @gdrosier Instagram: g.rosier Preston Pedersen Contact Info Twitter: @CoachPedersenMV Instagram: coach_pedersen Amanda Berg Contact Info Twitter: @ChargerTough Instagram: chargertough Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe, like, share, or leave a comment.

Hello friends, welcome to the show! Today I talk with Coach Tony Holler. Tony is a retired chemistry teacher and current track and field coach at Plainfield North H.S. in Illinois. Tony is also founder of Feed The Cats and started Track Football Consortium with Chris Korfist. In this episode, the big take away is Tony talks about how he wants coaches, and teachers, to model behavior for their athletes and students. Modeling is a better way to connect, especially in an industry with emotional relationships like sports. Check out Coach Holler's blog, courses, and other content below!Tony Holler InfoBlogRoll Tide: The New ModelCoach Tube CoursesVirtual Speed and Power ConferenceSupport the show (https://paypal.me/BoldBasePerformance)

Our guest today is Bobby Stroupe, founder and president of Athlete Performance Enhancement Center (APEC).  Bobby has directed human performance systems for nearly 20 years.  His coaching ranges from youth athletes to some of the top names in multiple professional sports, including first round picks, as well as Super Bowl and World Series champions.  Bobby is well-known for his work in the physical preparation realm of Patrick Mahomes, quarterback of the recent Superbowl champions, the Kansas City Chiefs. After doing 235 episodes of this podcast, and opening up my eyes to more and more of the performance space, I’m always excited to find those coaches who are spearheading creative and effective training methods in athletic performance transfer.  When I recently watched Bobby Stroupe’s presentation at the recent “Track Football Consortium” regarding his methods in working with Patrick Mahomes, I was like a kid in a candy shop, viewing training methods that replicated many time and space requirements of sport play without being mechanical or contrived. Bobby is not only a holistic and open minded coach, but he is also an incredibly thorough and detailed thinker.  There are so many points of carry-over in what Bobby does, I believe that studying his work is essential if we are to reach the point of getting our training to truly transfer to the field of play.  Bobby achieves this transfer in a way that still pays homage to traditional principles of force development and human performance, but is able to add in the tri-planar and chaotic nature of what athletes will encounter in sport. On today’s podcast, Bobby gets into a variety of his “unorthodox” training methods, including locomotion complexes, tri-planar plyometrics and strength training, complex training, long-term development, and athlete autonomy.  Again, with the interest of transfer to sport in mind, any aspiring coach should be familiar with the work of Bobby Stroupe and Team APEC. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster and Lost Empire Herbs. View more podcast episodes at the podcast homepage. Head to www.lostempireherbs.com/justfly for 15% off of your purchase! Timestamps and Main Points 6:15 What Bobby and I have learned about coaching from being fathers of young children 11:00 Bobby’s take on working with athletes from a young age, and how his team approaches long term athletic development 21:05 Bobby’s thoughts on being able to follow elite athletes for an extended period of time, as many professional athletes have been working at APEC since they were quite young 23:25 How human locomotion is taught using “locomotion complexes”, triplanar and scalar breakdowns of basic motions such as skips, caraocas, and gallops 36:40 Multiplanar jumps and how Bobby will complex these movements in with more static strength training means 46:35 Using different body alignments in strength training movements, as well as Bobby’s work with lunge matrixes using different foot positions 56:26 Bobby’s background with therapeutic education, and how that has impacted his work as a strength/physical preparation coach 1:04:00 Bobby’s take on the efficacy of technology for training athletes “What we want kids to say is, APEC is so fun we went up there and played for an hour and I wish I could come every day” “If someone comes up and tells us what we want them to do with their kid, we tell them that generally, it’s not a good fit” “Typically, middle school, with what we do, the girls are fairly dominant by the time they are in 7th grade” “We want to educate the individual on what makes them unique, what are their gifts?” “You will not find more variance than (coaching 40 middle school kids in one session) that in any training situation” “The number one rule of locomotion is “you do not restrict an athlete in space”” “There’s no better way to (calibrate) than letting the body move through space on i...

Chris Korfist is an internationally recognized speed expert. One of the most decorated high school track coaches in the country, Chris has helped develop more than 80 all state athletes and his methods and approach have been so revolutionary he has consulted with professional sports teams in the NFL, MLB, NBA and internationally in the Rugby League. Chris co-owns the Track Football Consortium, is a co-founder of Reflexive Performance Reset, is the co-author of The Triphasic Speed Training Manual and has helped educate the broader training community with countless articles regarding his innovative and successful approach.    In today's show we learn how Chris became obsessed with understanding how to improve speed. Why he received physical threats for throwing out his squat rack. Explains why sprinting is the most neurologically demanding exercise humans can perform. Shares his theories on why cheetahs are faster than Greyhounds, the time he saw an unknown Pearl Jam band at NIU, and a possible explanation for why Bo Jackson could throw a baseball through a house. Chris explains his approach to staying innovative and the importance of a “yeah, and…” philosophy. He introduces listeners to the importance of training the Spring Ankle Complex and the benefit of Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR) to create resilience and improve performance.    Mentioned in the Show:  Follow Chris:  Websites:  RPR - https://www.reflexiveperformance.com/ Slow Guy Speed School - https://slowguyspeedschool.com/ Track Football Consortium - http://trackfootballconsortium.com/ Twitter: @TFConsortium Email: korfist1@comcast.net   Follow The Professional Athlete Podcast with Ken Gunter:  Instagram: @the_professionalathlete Website: https://www.kengunter.com/ YouTube: Ken Gunter https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRhgjkoSiJXAbS_MIasvvzQ/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kengunterpodcast Produced By: Justin Gunter, Ken Gunter Music By: Justin Gunter, Ken Gunter

Today’s episode features speed coach and human performance expert, Chris Korfist.  Chris is a multi-time guest on the podcast and is back for a solo-interview show where he gets into his recent developments in speed training, as well as a great conversation about mind-body concepts and their relationship to sport, and even life itself. Chris Korfist has been a high school coach in track and football for almost 30 years, with more than 80 All-State athletes.  He owns the “Slow Guy Speed School” that helps develop athletes ranging from World Champion to middle school. He has consulted with professional sports teams all over the world, including the NFL, MLB, NBA, and Rugby League, and is an advisor for Auckland University of Technology’s SPRINZ.  Chris also co-owns the Track Football Consortium, and co-founded Reflexive Performance Reset. It is always good to sit down and just have a great sprinting/speed conversation, as in so many ways, speed is a universal concept to us as human beings, regardless of our exact sport or movement practice.  Sprinting represents the highest coordination demand output that the human body can do, and improvements in maximal sprint velocity are some of the hardest earned in training, but also some of the most rewarding.  Chris has been on several of my podcasts in the last few years, but we haven’t had a true “speed training” talk since our first episode together around 4 years ago. In addition to some great novel concepts on speed training covered on this show (such as asymmetrical sprint training and shin-drop methods), Chris also gets into a topic that may be more powerful and relevant for many athletes than particular speed training methods (although we want to do them all well), which is the power of the mind to impact posture, power outputs, sport skill, and attitudes of the opposing team.  If you get all of the speed training right, but get posture and confidence wrong, one’s highest potential will never be reached. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more. View more podcast episodes at the podcast homepage. Timestamps and Main Points 13:35 Updates and new ideas in Chris’s sprint program the last several years 26:05 Foot training, and how subtle variability can make a big impact on exercise outputs and effects 32:05 Using resisted sprint training to help technical elements, such as shin drop 40:25 Why Chris changed over from straight-leg bounding/primetimes into preferring flexed-leg bounding/flexed-leg primetimes 43:45 Mind-Body Training: The story behind saying “I am the Greatest!” before doing a sprint or jump, etc. and improving performance substantially 55:05 Mirroring in athletic performance Podcast Transcripts Email Download New Tab Chris Korfist: Or even change what your, your, you know, change your toe position and do the line hop, or like you had on Instagram yesterday, where you had your toe checked up and you're doing single leg squats and you're, and you re reformat, or what you wanted the foot to look like while you're pressing up. And that that's, that's a completely different exercise. And people forget that, that the slightest variations in your limbs completely changed what the exercises, whether it's foot position, hand, position, all that different stuff, completely changes exercises. Cause you're changing s lack distances, you're changing recruitment patterns are changing fascial patterns and all that, but I'm sitting there and I'm at whether I'm in Anaheim, California, or Las Vegas or wherever. And there's 80 volleyball games going on at once. And he plays every couple hours. So I'm walking around and I'm just watching all these kids with this...

Hello friends, welcome to the show. Today we have Coach Rob Assise as as our guest from the Track Football Consortium. Rob teaches math and has coached track, football and cross country at Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Illinois. He has numerous articles on sites such as TFC and SimpliFaster. We dive into barefoot training, nasal breathing and extreme isometrics with Rob on the podcast today. As always, links to his social media and other articles will be in the show notes.If you are looking for new breathing drills to incorporate with your athletes or for yourself, please subscribe to our website, boldbaseperformance.com. We would love to share with you the drills we are including in our course coming out next month. Stay tuned for more details on that as well! Let’s continue to grow the mind and change the system. Twitter: @HFJumpsCoach Rob Assise WebsiteFieldFocusArticle from Coach Assise on SimpliFasterhttps://simplifaster.com/articles/author/robassise/Articles from Coach Assise on Track Football Consortium:http://trackfootballconsortium.com/evolution-to-essentialism/http://trackfootballconsortium.com/feeding-the-cats-the-hf-way/http://trackfootballconsortium.com/principles-of-flight/http://trackfootballconsortium.com/why-tfc-tampa/https://trackfootballconsortium.com/boyz-ii-men/http://trackfootballconsortium.com/the-death-of-football-fast-and-track-speed/http://trackfootballconsortium.com/overlooked-connections-between-team-sports-and-track-and-field-part-1/Nasal Breathing Tips: Subscribe HEREBOLD BASE PERFORMANCE Lower Body Mobility Course: CLICK HERE

Hello friends, welcome to the show. Today we have Coach JT Ayers as our guest from the Track Football Consortium. Coach Ayers has been coaching track and field for 13 years and is a two-time Orange County Track Coach of the Year. Since taking over as head coach at Trabuco Hills in 2014, his athletes have broken 31 grade-level, seven school, and two All-Time Orange County records, and his teams have ranked No. 1 in Orange County for three different years (2015, 2016, and 2018). Ayers is currently the Executive Director of CoachAyers.com and teaches full time at Trabuco. You can find links to his twitter account, website and articles he has written for SimpliFaster in the show notes. Let’s continue to grow the mind and change the system.Twitter: @trabucotrackCoach Ayers Websitehttps://www.coachayers.com/Article from Coach Ayers on SimpliFasterhttps://simplifaster.com/articles/better-goals-better-athlete-motivation/https://simplifaster.com/articles/mass-specific-force-lifting-sprinters/https://simplifaster.com/articles/building-a-winning-track-program-jt-ayers/BOLD BASE PERFORMANCE Lower Body Mobility Course: CLICK HERE

Hello friends, welcome to the show! I am honored to announce our guest today is the legenerday Chris Korfist. We were introduced to Chris from Tony Holler, as they are both co-owners of Track Football Consortium, the leading football and track seminar clinic in the country. Chris has been getting athletes faster for the last 25 years. His website, Slow Guy Speed School, offers video assessment for individuals or teams as well as online workouts. Chris Korfist is an international speed genius who works with athletes of all levels, from middle school newbies to NFL and NCAA programs. Chris is the Co-Owner of Reflexive Performance Reset which is a process that gets an athlete's nervous system ready to perform at a peak state through various wake up drills. I highly recommend any athlete or coach invest in RPR to optimize your performance.Chris KorfistTwitter: @KorfistTFC Website: http://trackfootballconsortium.com/RPR Website: https://www.reflexiveperformance.com/clinicsSlow Guy Speed School Website: https://slowguyspeedschool.com/

Episode 9 is our conversation with Tony Holler who is the Head Track Coach at Plainfield North HS (IL) and the co-founder of the Track Football Consortium. His program, Feed The Cats, is revolutionizing the sports world and we are extremely excited to have him as our guest!

Coach Lala hangs out with world-famous track and field coach Tony Holler of Plainfield North High School in the Chicago, Illinois, area. Coach Holler and his "Feed the Cats" business have completely changed the way athletes prepare all across the world. He has also helped to start Track Football Consortium, a conference that brings together football, track, and strength coaches from every end of the country to share ideas about sports performance. Coach Lala and Coach Holler talked about too many topics to list which included, of course, "Feed the Cats," reading and writing, possible positive and negative impacts of COVID-19, training football players within the "Feed the Cats" philosophy, and much, much more.

We are joined this week by Tony Holler, Head Track and Field Coach at Plainfield North High School and Co-Founder of the Track Football Consortium (link to TFC below). Coach Holler talks about his use of RPR in the episode so we've provided a link to their site as well.https://www.reflexiveperformance.com/http://trackfootballconsortium.com/Make sure to head over to https://www.sprint-jump-throw.com/ and sign up for access to our exclusive Sprint Jump Throw Thorne Store. 25% off of all products!!

Hello friends, welcome to the show! On this episode, we talk with Coach Brad Fortney, another important member of the Track Football Consortium community. Brad went to Antioch Community High School in Illinois where he played football and ran track. Following high school, he went to Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin where he was first team all conference in football and track, both the shot put and the discus. Brad graduated undergrad in 2011 and received his Master in 2013. Had a mini camp tryout with the Chicago Bears in 2012. Brad started coaching and teaching at Kenosha Bradford in Wisconsin until 2018. He was an assistant football coach, assistant basketball coach, head girls track coach and strength and conditioning coach. He was named Kenosha Unified Coach of the year in 2018 for his work with all the sports teams.Taught and Coached Football at Lakes Community High School in Illinois in 2018 and Coached Softball at Bradford High School in 2019. Moved to Enterprise Alabama in July 2019 where he continues to teach and works as an assistant football coach and head girl’s track coach. We are excited to talk about all of his varied experiences in coaching.Brad and I have launched our lower body mobility course for all that are looking to take care of their bodies at home. This online course covers the basis of education and exercise you can utilize to promote healthy hips and feet. Additionally, 25% of all proceeds go to the Global Giving Coronavirus Relief Fund. Please check out the show notes for the link to our course.https://boldbaseperformance.thinkific.com/courses/lower-body-mobility-courseCoach Brad Fortney can be found on Twitter: @CoachFortneyArticles written by Coach Fortney:http://trackfootballconsortium.com/adapting-to-feeding-the-cats/http://trackfootballconsortium.com/managing-two-way-players/http://trackfootballconsortium.com/breathing-to-perform-not-survive/

Hello friends, welcome to the show. In today’s episode, Brad and I have a great chat with Coach Brad Dixon. Coach Dixon wears many hats at Central High School in Camp Point, Illinois. He is the head football coach, the boys track coach, the strength and conditioning coach and a physical education teacher. His football team has made 12 straight playoff appearances, along with a state runner up in 2018 where Coach Dixon was the coach of the year. A man of many mottos (#wintheday, #upearlytotrain, and his team’s FREAK standards, which we will chat about on the podcast), Brad knows what it takes to get kids to buy into a system and provide the leadership, mentorship and support high school kids need to thrive in today’s school and sports environment. As always, please rate and review the show after you have listened. If you know anyone who would benefit from Coach Dixon’s thoughts, please share the show with them or follow him on twitter @coachbdixon. Let’s continue to grow the mind, optimize performance and change the system.HS PE teacher, Head Football Coach, Boys Track Coach, Strength and Conditioning Coach at Central High School in Camp Point, Illinois 12 straight playoff appearances in football2018 Class 1A Second Place2018 KHQA Awards Week: Football Coach of the Year - Brad Dixon, Camp Point CentralTwitter: @coachbdixonEmail: bdixon@cusd3.comBooks Mentioned:3D Coach by Jeff DukeInsideOut Coaching by Joe Ehrmann

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Note: Explicit content in this episode. Tony Holler (@pntrack) is the head track coach at Plainfield North High School in the Chicago area. Tony Holler has coached track for 38 years, football for 28, and basketball for 15. In June of 2019, Tony retired after his 38th year of teaching (Chemistry). He remains as the head track coach. Holler’s teams have won three state championships. In 2018, his Plainfield North team swept the sprints in Illinois, winning the 100m, 200m, 4x1, and 4x2, setting new state records in the 100m and 4x1. In 2019, Plainfield North again featured the state champion in both the 100 and 200. Tony Holler and Chris Korfist own the Track Football Consortium, providing education for coaches twice a year (December and June). TFC will expand in 2020 to Dallas (Jan 25-26) and St. Louis (Feb 7-8). Tony Holler is the originator of “Feed the Cats” and speaks at clinics and seminars from coast to coast. In September of 2019, Holler did a five workshop “Feed the Cats Tour” in England and Ireland, hosted by Jonas Dodoo. Tony Holler produced a track and field video for Championship Productions in 2019, Feed the Cats: A Complete Sprint Training Program. The DVD/VIDEO was the #1 seller of all the videos sold for Championship Productions, ALL SPORTS. Holler is also the author of nearly 200 articles about coaching, high performance, and education.

Feed The Cats. If you are unfamiliar with that expression, you are in for a treat today. We are proud to have Coach Tony Holler (@pntrack on Twitter) as our guest on the Bold Base Performance podcast today. Coach Holler is the track and field coach at Plainfield North High School. A now retired chemistry teacher, Coach Holler has spent over 35 years as a teacher and coach in football, basketball and track. He established his Feed The Cats mantra for coaching sprinters, a philosophy we will dive deep into today in our conversation with him. He is additionally the Co-Director of Track Football Consortium, an organization that brings the best and most innovative minds in performance together. Among his many accomplishments, Tony is a member of the Illinois Track and Field Hall of Fame. We had such a pleasure talking with Tony for this episode, and we hope you enjoy it as well. As always, please rate and review the show after listening. Additionally, share with someone who benefit from a Feed the Cats mentality! Contact at tony.holler@yahoo.com or by text 630-849-8294Follow on Twitter @pntrackBooks:Essentialism by Greg McKeownChop Wood Carry Water by Joshua Medcalf

We all know less can be more, but doing less is hard. We all hate to be out worked. Coach Tony Holler came to track and field coaching as an outsider and stumbled upon the benefits of minimalist training. On this week's GAINcast he joins us to talk about how his training program came about, how it is put together, and additional thoughts on training speed. For more information on this topic, read the complete show notes at: http://www.hmmrmedia.com/2019/07/gaincast-episode-165-minimalist-training-with-tony-holler/ The following links were referenced in the podcast or provide some additional reading material on the topic: The GAINcast is brought to you by GAIN and HMMR Media. This month's site theme is the speed. We've got lot of great content planned, starting with Vern Gambetta's classic Total Speed DVD, now available for HMMR Plus members to stream. Join HMMR Plus so that you don't miss out and get full access to our video, article, and podcast archive here on HMMR Media. You can follow Holler on Twitter at @pntrack. Holler is the co-founder of the Track Football Consortium an annual performance clinic. He also writes some great articles on their blog, including a look at gobbledygook. He also has written frequently for ITCCCA, including this critique of sub-maximal sprinting. We have some good episodes about speed in our archives, including this month's GAINcast 164: Team speed, as well as older episodes like GAINcast 115: Train speed in and GAINcast 39: Teaching Speed. We also have many more videos on training speed in the HMMR Classroom including basic speed exercises and drills in HMMR Classroom Lesson 6 with Joe McNab. For more advanced concepts, watch Lesson 7 on robust running with John Pryor and Lesson 15 on hip lock with Frans Bosch. Additional resources on sprinting can be found on our sprints page and were covered in our May 2018 site theme.

On this episode we talk with Tony Holler. Coach Holler is the Head Track Coach at Plainfield North HS in Plainfield, IL. He is also the co-founder of the Track Football Consortium, and he is a former football coach and chemistry teacher. He is the author of dozens of articles on how to train sprinters and athletes in general with his program Feed The Cats. Listen as we talk with Coach Holler about his revelations in building and coaching SPEED, how he motivates his athletes using record, rank, and publish, and tips on how you can practice faster and keep your athletes fresher and ready to perform maximally on game nights. You can follow Coach Holler on Twitter @pntrack. This episode of Run The Power is brought to you by HUDL. One third of U.S. high school football teams already use Hudl Assist to develop their game plans more effectively. This number is only going to get bigger next year. So here’s a pro tip—don’t fall behind the competition. Sign up for Assist now, before your season starts. Once you wrap up game one, all you’ll have to do is upload it to Hudl and click the Assist submission button. You’ll add a few details about the game and then send it. Professional analysts watch every down, charting more than a dozen columns of data for each play. This data automatically filters into the interactive drive charts and tendency reports. In less than a day, all this is sent directly to you and the other coaches on your team. Simple as that. Once you have the advanced data that more and more of your competitors have, you can take your program to the next level. Ready to get started? Visit hudl.com/RTPassist to check off data entry from your to-do list. This episode of Run the Power is brought to you by Just Play Solutions. Just Play provides coaches with football playbook and game planning tools to prepare faster and engage with today’s athlete. Create and organize your playbook with terminology, diagrams, video, and assignments. Just Play has a limited offer for RTP listeners only. Get My Just Play PRO for $120. That is $60 off normal list price. This offer ends June 1st. Get this deal at justplaysolutions.com/rtp/. The best playbook tool on the market! Don't wait, do it today! Learn more at justplaysolutions.com/rtp/ This episode of Run The Power is brought to you by TeamBuildr. TeamBuildr provides strength and conditioning software to high schools around the country.  Whether your write your own programs, have a full time strength coach or need training programs, TeamBuildr can make your program better. Right now, TeamBuildr is offering a 10-week off-season football training program with a 2-day speed and agility program. This template even comes with videos from the top SEC strength coaches that will show you how to run your weight room. Visit their website and enter the code “RTP” to get the off-season football training template and start your 14-day free trial at TeamBuildr.com

Download Episode File Tony Holler has been a teacher for 38 years and presently teaches Honors Chemistry at Plainfield North High School in Plainfield, IL.  He also has 38 years experience coaching football, basketball, and track. Tony is presently the Head Track Coach and Freshman Head Football Coach at Plainfield North.  He is a member of the Illinois Track and Field Hall of Fame and coached multiple teams to state track championships. A coveted author and speaker, Tony is also co-director of the Track-Football Consortium. Topics Covered: How teaching chemistry and coaching track and field at the high school level are similar and different Do teaching curriculums reflect modern educational priorities How Tony personally gauges if his students are learning and the degree to which standardized assessments constrain the teaching experience Strategies Tony employs to keep students engaged in chemistry class and track and field practice Essentialism in coaching and teaching Principles that unite the different sports Tony has coached Specialization in sports and education Empowering students and cultivating leadership in young people How Tony’s altered his methodology to accommodate “millennials” (hint: he hasn’t) What’s next for Tony after four decades of teaching Links of Interest: Tony’s Twitter Tony’s Articles Track-Football Consortium How To Improve Schools With Coaching Principles Subscribe to the Resilient newsletter

Tony Holler is the boy's track coach at Plainfield North H.S. (IL). In 2018 Coach Holler's team swept the sprints - 4x100m, 4x200m, 100m, 200m - at the IHSA State Meet, setting two state records. He’s been coaching high school athletes for 38 years. Tony is the owner of “Feed the Cats,” a system for training sprinters that is being implemented throughout the United States by high school track coaches. He is also the co-owner of Track Football Consortium, a site where he not only writes on the topic of sprinting, but he’s also written articles on distance running, such as the profile of John O’Malley (episode 002), which you can read it here. In this interview we go into detail about the elements Coach Holler uses with his sprinters that he believes distance coaches should be implementing. There are some specific questions, such as how he views someone like Peter Snell doing 20-mile long runs as part of middle distance training. He’s got a great answer to that question. Tony and I discuss what needs to be done to improve track and field in the United States - a subject that may well deserve a follow-up episode. Thank you, Tony, for your time and energy. You can find Coach Holler on Twitter at @pntrack

Today’s episode features Rob Assise, track and field coach at Homewood-Flossmoor High School in the greater Chicago area.  Rob has been an accomplished writer in the last year, and has been a highly successful coach on the track and field level. His progressive workouts have netted him great success, as Homewood-Flossmoor has been a force on the state track and field level in Illinois.   Specifically for Just Fly Sports, Rob has written “10 Low-Hanging Fruits to Grab for Optimal Performance”.  He has also been a speaker for one of the mecca’s of track and field training, the Track-Football Consortium, and will be speaking at the next iteration this June.   Like Tony Holler, Rob has gone from a more volume oriented approach that he trained under, to a more progressive, low volume approach that more and more track coaches are utilizing, not only to help athletes to new personal bests, but also to make track and field more fun and engaging for the athlete.   To me, it is both Rob’s knowledge and creativity that make him someone I love to sit down and talk training with. One of the biggest game changers for me that Rob mentioned was doing curvilinear sprints for his track and field jumpers, which is just the tip of the iceberg in the many cutting edge methods he employs with his athletes.   On today’s podcast, Rob talks about his background, training philosophy, speed and plyometric methods, weightroom concepts, the “constraint based” jump training system (a real gem) and more. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more.   Key Points: Rob's background as an athlete and in track and field coaching Rob’s coaching philosophy and how it has transformed over the years Nuts and bolts of Rob’s training phases and managing lots of sprinters in a group with athletes of different abilities, as well as how to do a flying 10 workout with 60 kids and one set of timing gates Peaking plans going into championship meets Rob’s ideas on the perfect world of yearly training throughout multiple sport play in a high school setting Rob’s plyometric utilization for his jumpers Weightroom concepts for Rob’s athletes A “constraints based” approach to jumps training Quotes: “I really had to sell workouts to athletes (doing high volume sprint training).. only half of the athletes would be really engaged.  I was looking for ways to get everybody engaged” “When it comes to peaking, it’s all about “what makes you feel awesome”” “Every week I try to do something in the frontal plane that is ankle based (for high jumpers)” “My long and triple jumpers will do plyometrics on a curve” “If you just focus on the sagittal plane, that’s ok, but if we can incorporate the transverse and frontal plane as well that creates a more stable athlete” “I like doing resisted sprint work where the arms are free, that is the ideal” “Speed drllls are overblown… we do them, but if you’re doing more than 15 or 20 minutes of it in a warmup, you are better off using your time somewhere else” About Rob Assise Rob Assise is a mathematics teacher and track coach at Homewood-Flossmoor High School. He also has experience coaching football and cross country. He can be reached via e-mail at robertassise@gmail.com or Twitter @HFJumps.

Today’s guest is Tony Holler, Head track coach at Plainfield North High School, Illinois and Co-founder of the Track-Football Consortium in the Chicago area. I’ve known Tony for about 3 years now after meeting for him the first time at the original “Track-Football Consortium”.   Listening to Tony talk about team culture and building sprinters was one of the most memorable aspects of my experiences there, and really keyed me into a different mentality when it came to track practice. Tony has had great success at Plainfield North, including this last year where freshman Marcellus Moore ran 10.40 at the Illinois state track meet, one of the best freshman performances in high school track history.  He is also a chemistry teacher, and has many years of football coaching experience in his belt.  Tony has written some amazing articles over the years on Simplifaster, and formerly, FreelapUSA, on sprint culture, training, and coaching. Tony knows how to make track fun.  When most people think of track, they think of intense speed-endurance and tempo workouts, throwing up after practice, and shin-splints.  Tony’s practices look nothing like this, and they are the antithesis of the long-slow running model, and he gets great results.  His model towards speed training co-incides heavily with former podcast guest Jeff Moyer’s attitude towards training athletes, as we have spoken at length about in the form of strength training. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more. Key Points: A recap of Tony’s last track season and what he learned from Marcellus Moore, the #1 freshman in the United States Tony’s sprint philosophy and its evolution over the years Setting up lactate training throughout the competitive season Approaches to rest and short practices for high school track and field The rationale and idea behind “X-Factor” plyometric and agility workouts Ideas on recording and publishing athletes sprint times Fluctuations in the “mode” of speed training throughout a high-school year Peaking considerations in a “low dose” training system Quotes “Whatever it is that makes people fast, I think (Marcellus’s) feet might be the most important thing” “I’ve always told kids to run fast and loose, and make it look easy, and I’ve quit saying that to Marcellus, because there is nothing loose or easy about the way that he runs” “You don’t change things just because it’s not your stereotypical look (in athletes)” “I started writing down the (40 yard dash) times, ranking them, and putting them up on a bulletin board, which became the most popular bulletin board in the high school” “We never do a lactate workout until the season starts” “In a period of 19 weeks, there is 27 lactate workouts (including meets counting as lactate workouts)” “47.99 wasn’t bad for a junior, there was nothing wrong with him dying a little bit late in the race” “I don’t even know what a tempo workout is!  We don’t say the words tempo, fitness, conditioning in our program” “To me, track and field is all about performance, it’s not about keeping kids until 5pm” “We never practice more than 40 minutes” “There’s no way to say “get your knees up” to a guy running at 10 meters per second” “The record, rank and publish is critical to what we do” About Tony Holler Tony Holler is a teacher and coach at Plainfield North High School. Holler has 35 years experience coaching football, basketball, and track. Holler is a member of Illinois Track & Field Hall of Fame and Co-director of Football-Track Activation Consortium along with Chris Korfist.

Today’s guests are the team at Elite Level Performance in Colliersville, TN, owner John Nelson and trainer/natural health practitioner, Mandy Macri.  I originally met John at the first Track/Football Consortium in Lombard, Ill, and have since had some great conversations with him on holistic health, Be Activated/RPR, Jay Schroeder training ideas, and more. John Nelson brings over a decade of experience and expertise to all clients. He has a Masters Degree in Health & Sport Science, and is also a National Academy of Sports Medicine Certified Corrective Exercise Specialist & Personal Trainer. Mandy Macri joined Elite Level Performance in 2012 after 20 years in the health & fitness industry. Mandy has a degree in Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, and is a National Academy of Sports Medicine Certified Personal Trainer and Corrective Exercise Specialist.  Mandy has her Natural Health Practitioner Certification from Trinity School of Natural Health, and is currently completing her dissertation to receive her Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine degree from Trinity School and Natural Health. One of the most interesting things that piqued my interest in what John, and Mandy were doing at ELP was John talking about the relationship of muscle testing to the holistic (nutritional, psychological) aspects of the athlete in getting longer lasting results of muscle activation and strength in things like hip extension, flexion, etc.  Much of the muscle testing and related corrective systems we see today will deliver fairly temporary changes.  The modalities and total integrative approach at ELP really sets what John and Mandy are doing apart, and as we learn more about the connections of the human body, we can become more effective coaches and athletes.  Today’s episode is all about the relationship between nutrition to athletic function, with many facets of both also discussed individually. Today’s episode is brought to you by SimpliFaster, supplier of high-end athletic development tools, such as the Freelap timing system, kBox, Sprint 1080, and more. Key Points: John and Mandy’s backgrounds, and the formation of Elite Level Performance Physical, neurological and nutritional assessments of athletes at ELP Critical physical assessments for athletes in the ankle and hip A summary of the RBTI (Reams Biological Theory of Ionization) in performance assessment Common physical deficiencies in athletes John and Mandi work with Aspects of digestion in physical performance John’s training philosophy Quotes “A commonality I tend to find is basically an overload of the system in too much sugar, too many electrolytes, and an inability to process out those proteins” “If your body cannot send and receive information the right way, it is going to start to compensate” “Our kids know that Gatorade is not the best choice” “PH is how fast things are moving through your digestive tract” “I think just getting the physical component is a cop-out when you are not addressing the true origin of the (muscle weakness) situation” “Protein is extremely important, but is also the hardest thing for your body to break down.”  “Just because you chew, swallow and something comes out the other end doesn’t mean all was good, and with protein especially” “A simple enzyme deficiency might be the only thing standing in your way between making the gains you want and staying where you are” “Most of the standard American diet is going to push you too acidic, or too fast, pushing things through the system too fast for good absorption.” “If a person is chronically not activated in their psoas or glutes, then there is something internally going wrong” Show Notes A simple book recommended to be post-recording by Mandy was “Kick Your Fat in the Nuts”, which goes into aspects of digestion that was discussed in the show.  It is a very interesting and eye opening read.