Track and field
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According to Dr. Ken Clark, every step you sprint from acceleration all the way through the end of a 100 meters or 200 meters, or you name it, you need to apply enough vertical impulse. Impulse is the product of force and time. It’s force applied for a period of time. You need to apply…
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Here are the 10 don´ts of speed training by coach Tony Holler, the autor of the “Feed the Cats” program. 1. Don´t see speed as purely genetic and immutable. There´s a saying that God creates sprinters and coaches create milers. That´s wrong. 2. Don´t sprint without getting timed. If you ain´t getting timed, you ain´t…
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According to coach Justin Kinseth, jumping is the glue between those football players and those track athletes, knowing that you can have a field event on the in between that can be able to provide both. You´re getting great plyometric work in, you´re sprinting… The long jump and triple jump is such an athletes and…
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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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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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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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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…
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In the world of sports the line between good and great often blurs, but in the 100 meters it´s definitive. They´re fast and then they´re sub 10. Running 100 metres in under 10 seconds marks an athelte´s entry into an elite circle. But in the modern era of sprinting athletes are breaking the sub 10 barrier more…
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In this post I’m going to discuss all those actions and habits that are detrimental to developing and improving your sprinting speed. Obviously if you want to run slower and slower, doing all of these things is the best way to go. Here’s a list:
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What if your speed training was actually preventing you from running faster and reaching your true max speed? While it might seem surprising, turns out that all out sprinting over and over again might not make you any faster. If you have your athlete run 30 meters, or 40 meters or 50 meters, sprinting all out all the time, it’s been…
