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 [...]
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 [...]
To Toe Drag or Not Toe Drag, That is the Question The first time I saw the “toe drag” was the Japanese documentary with Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay. I think the video was from the mid [...]
The Case Against Football Players Running Track Over half of high school track programs run too much and seldom sprint. If football players lack athleticism, their participation in track [...]
REPLACING THE EXISTING FOOTBALL MODEL: A FIVE-MINUTE READ “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ~Mark Twain “You never change things by [...]
BIG CATS AND THE “TRUCK STICK” Feed the Cats celebrates speed and athleticism. The development of “Apex Predators” requires 1) sprinting fast, 2) lifting heavy, 3) jumping high, and [...]
Verified Times? VERIFIED means “to make sure or demonstrate that something is true, accurate, or justified.” Are 40 yard dash times ever true, accurate, or justified? In this article, [...]
Stop Doing Mindless Conditioning (Part-three in a three-part football series) Conditioning is defined as “the process of training or accustoming a person or animal to behave in a certain [...]
The Origin and Philosophical Basis of “Feed the Cats” I coined “Feed the Cats” 20 years ago. It began with the realization that jumpers and sprinters were fast-twitch [...]
