Today’s guest is Tony Holler, Head track coach at Plainfield North High School, Illinois and Co-founder of the Track-Football Consortium in the Chicago area.

I’ve known Tony for about 3 years now after meeting for him the first time at the original “Track-Football Consortium”. Listening to Tony talk about team culture and building sprinters was one of the most memorable aspects of my experiences there, and really keyed me into a different mentality when it came to track practice.

Tony has had great success at Plainfield North, including this last year where freshman Marcellus Moore ran 10.40 at the Illinois state track meet, one of the best freshman performances in high school track history. He is also a chemistry teacher, and has many years of football coaching experience in his belt. Tony has written some amazing articles over the years on Simplifaster, and formerly, FreelapUSA, on sprint culture, training, and coaching.

Tony knows how to make track fun. When most people think of track, they think of intense speed-endurance and tempo workouts, throwing up after practice, and shin-splints. Tony’s practices look nothing like this, and they are the antithesis of the long-slow running model, and he gets great results. His model towards speed training co-incides heavily with former podcast guest Jeff Moyer’s attitude towards training athletes, as we have spoken at length about in the form of strength training.

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