Tony Holler

Arlington Heights (IL); “Feed the Cats”. “Sprint Based Football”. Writer, runner, reader, public speaker, teacher, 🏈, 🏀, ⚡️, & track coach. (& @anthonyholler)

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FTC T-shirts https://t.co/dK93kvvQYI

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@CoachZKubik @TtownVelo ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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@CoachWright333 ⚡️⚡️⚡️

[MileSplit US @milesplit]

A request we received after the posting the 1600 graphic: isolate the sprint data.

[Re-Evolution Athletics LLC @reEVOLUTIONath]

New performance training tool this summer

[Ryan Paul @TheNewAthlete]

Free PDF I made showing speed reductions from in season and the associated distances lost in feet and yards. It’s pretty eye opening how dramatic an 8% reduction has. Email me [email protected] I’ll send it over.

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@FLA_Speed ⚡️⚡️⚡️

[Glen Graham MSEd💙💛 @coachglen]

@pntrack 4 All State football players and our best 4x1 (with a 230 lb tailback)

[Greg McKeown @GregoryMcKeown]

Most people try harder.

High performers build systems.

There's a difference between effort and infrastructure.

Effort depletes. Infrastructure compounds.

The question isn't: how do I try harder at this?

The question is: how do I make this happen without trying?

Build the system once. Let it run.

That's essentialism in practice.

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

@CoachMcGhghy Treaty Oak Revival ⚡️⚡️⚡️

[Rob Assise @HFJumps]

One Illinois Boys’ Track takeaway….

Sprints are faster than ever.

Certainly many factors.

One that can’t be discounted in this state is the contributions of Tony Holler and Chris Korfist and the importance of sprinting.

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State Champion sprint-based football teams are good in track, too.

[Erik Becker @ErikBecker42]

So proud of our Track-Football guys:

Stone Leckey
Finn Barry
Cole Preskar
Ayden Brennan
Grady VanHine

It is their 3rd consecutive Track State Championship.

@HandTigersFB @TFConsortium #cthsfb

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

@DillonMartinez I think you’re right.

Coaches are learning to train speed.

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@REDEMPTION_GOLF 🙏🏻

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Another #SprintBasedFootball, #FTC state champion.

From Brian Labbe:

“I coach in Frenchtown, Montana that has always had a pretty good football culture, but definitely was stuck in the old school way of doing things. A couple years ago a fellow college teammate took over as Head Coach of the program, and made me the OC, and we went full Feed the Cats on our training and preparation of our team. In those two years we have gone 20-2, and last season were able to get over the hump and win the State Championship against a team that was on a 23 game win streak, and beat us 35-7 in a preseason game the same year. One of the, if not the biggest upset in Montana High School Football History. One of the things other coaches told us throughout the year, and what they saw in the Championship game, was how fast we were on the field. A testament to your philosophy of Sprint Based Football.”

“I have also incorporated your philosophy into my Weight Training Classes in our school, and put our main focus into Speed Development. Now the majority of our student athletes are Feed the Cat Athletes (We call it Big Cat Training) and we had one of the most successful sports years our school has ever seen.”

[Tony Holler @pntrack]

@GowagsKyle @JoshChambers Couldn’t agree more.

Knight was unparalleled as a coach and a teacher of coaches when I knew him in the 1980s.

Then he became a grotesque caricature of his former self.

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@simps105 @coachbdixon @Tony_Villani_ ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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@CoachDalt ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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@CoachChrisNK ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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@AlexJasper_ 300% is more than trackflation!

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In the process of writing a state meet article.

Illinois (all classes, boys) has improved a ton from 2014-16 to 2024-26, especially in the 100, 200, and 4x1. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

The table reflects # of athletes achieving certain marks (source: https://t.co/tNYJIGi8s4)