Why Practicing Less is More - Quality Beats Quantity

Less is more: how reducing practice and training volume can lead to improves speed & performance. Stop detraining speed and athleticism with fatigue, tired athletes. Traditional conditioning detrains many of the qualities of athleticism that should be the priority. Across all sports, the training of the CNS through speed work, lifting, jumping, and bounce should be the priority in all training. Tired is the enemy, not the goal!
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[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

Tony your emphasis on sleep and recovery is spot on and rhe most overlooked aspect of coaching, with proper diet as number two. If the kids end up with only great lifestyle habits, they will succeed in life as well as sports.

[@fidru]

so true. thats also the hardest part for adult or even masters athletes!

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

V​@@fidruAt 67 I can vouch for that 😊

[@brandonb7362]

Great point about athletes needing plentiful sleep to grow and heal. This gets lost on most people.

[@sammyanderson7824]

I m using your training of speed priority now 11.5

[@fatmansprinter]

we still rocking feed the cats -3 days a week sprinting - one day power weights. 10.71 opener - yeah buddy 10.5 here we come

[@sev9258]

I really wish you were my coach in high school, or that I found your channel during HS.

[@triblemusic]

Hi Tony, Thank you so much for sharing all of your knowledge. I have been working on incorporate your techniques into my 12 year old son. He a 1st time runningback & we feel like there is a lot of room to improve on. He is fast, but we are working on getter better. We just started lifting weights just 10lbs to work on his form, & no longer than 35 mins. We started a routine 3x a week of sprinting and jumpy drills. Thank you for your video's. I have a youtube channel if you want to see him run.

[@sammyanderson7824]

Majority coaches are not obsessed with speed and athletes they just do it for earning

[@sammyanderson7824]

Detrain athletes thats the scariest thing and i have gone through aerobic sucked and i was a sprinter and i did 20km a day slow 3 hrs

[@SunOmega]

Hi coach, when you give rest days what do they do? Like sitting on the couch resting, go for a 30min walk or something else?

[@MaxieGrimmett]

what about for mma fighters training for doing less is more because I know these guys train 4hours a day for 6 days a week. any suggestions for training smart without being fatigue and not burning yourself out

[@coachtonyholler]

@@MaxieGrimmett If you capped MMA work at 2 hours, 4 times a week, the quality of their practice would skyrocket. Performance would improve.

[@OnelyMansa]

Since you are a man of books, I recently red a book that I think you will find to much use because it preaches exactly what you preach. The book is called Peak By Anders Ericsson

[@coachtonyholler]

Thank you.

[@sammyanderson7824]

Sir give some arm movement drill for sprinting which can be done at home

[@KHJ04]

Hey coach really fascinated about how you look at all of this, but whats your thoughts on training for sports like football (soccer) where you have to be both explosive and endurant for the whole 90 minutes - i myself have transfered alot of speed and have become insanely quick compared to before but i get gassed within 20-30 minutes

[@coachtonyholler]

trackfootballconsortium.com/soccer-ten-ways-to-feed-the-cats/

[@scotthill7927]

Coach, we’re two weeks out from our region and then state competition. How do I keep working my kids but at the same time having them be as fresh as possible?

[@coachtonyholler]

This is the basic plan for my final two weeks. M-lactate T off W speed T Sectional F off S off S lactate M off T speed W speed T travel F state S state

[@fidru]

@4:26 about the swedish soccer player: to work much harder makes zero sense indeed. soccer is a way more endurance based ball game than basketball or any other team sport (because of the long duration and little substitutions) it's already hard to ballance technique, speed, power and endurance AND RECOVERY during a training week. thats the reason why the feed the cats approach probably would not work for soccer. the physical demand is very different from pure sprinting more like MD training. and on low amateur level you can easily win the league with a team of 7 runners (with little soccer skills) who do all the work, a decent goaly, a talented playmaker and one or two fast strikers.

[@TrackHead03]

Hi coach, what does lactate workouts look like for your 100(if any) and 200m athletes?

[@coachtonyholler]

All my sprinters are trained to run 400.

[@Johnny-Phive]

Do you have a weekly or monthly basic program for getting better at the 400m ?

[@coachtonyholler]

I consult for $150 an hour and we can individualize a program for you.

[@Johnny-Phive]

@@coachtonyholler what is the best way to get ahold of you

[@coachtonyholler]

@@Johnny-Phive Text 630 849-8294

[@noahwhite1530]

Hey I’m kinda new to track and I currently sit at a 55.69 400m and I really want to find a good 400 training program for this summer but nobody in my area can really help me worth that, what would you recommend for a 400m training program?

[@coachtonyholler]

Stop running. Start sprinting.

[@noahwhite1530]

Yes sir

[@sammyanderson7824]

Sir what about aerobic slow long plyometrics do they also affect speed

[@williambrewster1524]

There is no such thing as a slow plyometric

[@sammyanderson7824]

Sir what about dumbbells seated arm swings will it affect my speed

[@mixa7039]

shut up

[@emilstorgaard9642]

No; use resistance bands instead