FEEDING THE CATS IN THE EMERALD ISLE JULY 6 In the past year, I’ve spoken to groups as small as 25 (NSCA Illinois) and as large as 500 (Glazier Football Clinic, Las Vegas). I addressed an entire [...]
I wrote this article in June of 2017 in the car on the 2,113 mile ride home from the NCAA Championships in Eugene. The article caught the interest of the legendary Michael Boyle who flew me to [...]
THE TEN DON’TS OF SPEED TRAINING There is no sprint textbook. There is no absolute certainty when it comes to optimal sprint training. Like it or not, the training of a sprinter is [...]
Don Holler: The Death of a Coach It’s hard telling when the cascading medical problems began. Let’s just say that life in Don Holler’s eighties was not kind. Procedures, infections, surgeries, [...]
SOCCER: TEN WAYS TO FEED THE CATS “Feed the Cats” began in 1999 as a new approach to make track and field a more enjoyable sport by focusing on speed instead of running laps. The Origin and [...]
THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES “They All Want Something for Nothing” On Friday, July 20th, I tweeted a screenshot of a list titled “REALITY CHECK”. The 11-point list had come [...]
15 YEAR HISTORY OF THE @PNTRACK INVITE Plainfield North hosts a 14-team invitational Saturday, March 11th, starting at 10 a.m. We run on a 178-meter 4-lane track where the curves are nearly [...]
Hal Mumme and Me By Tony Holler In the summer of 2016, I read two amazing books written by S.C. Gwynne, “Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most [...]
Reflexive Performance Reset (RPR) I met Douglas Heel of South Africa on October 18th, 2014. The “Be Activated” workshop hosted by Chris Korfist was unlike anything I’d ever witnessed. I learned [...]
Ten Survival Tips For Coaches I grew up in a coach’s house and witnessed the toll that coaching takes on a family. My father coached for 47 years and won 644 games as a high school and college [...]
