HOW TO COACH THE HURDLE TRIALS ACCORDING TO THE BASES OF THE “FEED THE CATS”
Let’s talk about the hurdles according to coach Tony Holler´s training methodology. One of the biggest things you can do is find your hurdles. A junior set of five hurdles costs $500. You don´t need 10 hurdles. That´s all you need for training. The great thing is they’re adjustable to 18, 20, 24, 27, and…
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HOW YOU SHOULD TRAIN BY ADAPTING TO THE GYM TEMPERATURE
If you are going to start training in your garage at a home gym, you’re going to be pretty much at the mercy of the elements because most people’s garages are not air conditioned and heated. If you’ve got a utility room that’s adjacent to the house and you can keep a door open to…
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WHEN SHOULD YOU ADD OLYMPIC LIFTS TO YOUR GYM WORKOUTS?
In the Starting Strength programming we use versions of the Olympic lifts and they’re very important to the program. But a lot of people figure out a way to get out of having to do them. The reason they don’t want to do them is because they don’t know how. They haven’t figured out how…
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HOW SPEED TRAINING CAN IMPACT DISTANCE RUNNERS
According to coach Tony Holler, your body adapts to the specific stresses applied. For example: If you properly train speed, your body will adapt to run faster. If you properly train speed endurance, your body will adapt to run faster longer. If you train long and slow, your body will adapt to run longer and…
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THE ATOMIC WORKOUT: ONLY 16 MINUTES OF SPEED TRAINING
Tony Holler is a track and field coach and a football and basketball physical trainer. He works at Plainfield North High School. He is also a member of the Illinois Track & Field Hall of Fame and co-director of the Track Football Consortium with Chris Korfist. Tony Holler is the author of the “Feed the Cats” training method.…
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WHAT THINGS DO YOU NEED TO CARRY IN YOUR GYM BAG?
If you’re a serious liter, you’ve got a bag that you carry into the gym when you train that contains things that you need when you’re training. Things are obvious like your training shoes. Your belt needs to be in there. Other things that might need to be in the gym bag will be dependent…
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PASSING DYNAMICS IN TEAM SPORTS
In this post, I want to present different situations that can occur in team sports where the ball is played and both teams share the field. I’ll also explain how you should proceed to resolve each of these situations from a defensive perspective, with the goal of preventing the pass from being played between the…
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HOW TO STRENGTHEN THE START OF THE PULL WITH HALTING DEADLIFTS
In the last post we talked about the rack pull. The rack pull and the halting deadlift are two very important assistance exercises for the full deadlift for more advanced lifters who are pulling heavy weights already. The advantage of using these two instead of just the deadlift is that at very very heavy weights…
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE RACK PULL: WHY, WHEN, AND HOW
There are two primary assistance exercises for the deadlift. When we say assistance exercises in in this context, we’re talking about pieces of the full deadlift that have been pulled out of the deadlift and exercised separately. The first is the rack pull which is the top 2/3 of the pull, and the second is…
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