Stop Killing Your Athletes: A Smarter Way to Build Speed and Power

Volleyball athletes are playing 12 months a year—club, school, camps, lessons, tournaments—and the cumulative volume is crushing their development. Instead of getting faster or jumping higher, many athletes are simply getting more fatigued. This session challenges the belief that more reps equal better results and introduces a smarter, high-performance alternative rooted in Tony Holler’s Feed the Cats philosophy.

You’ll learn how to build explosive, high-output athletes through a minimalist, data-driven approach that prioritizes quality over quantity, nervous system freshness, and weekly performance tracking. We’ll break down how simple tools like sprint timing, approach-touch testing, and force plate assessment can expose fatigue, inform programming, and create athlete buy-in during long seasons.

Most importantly, we’ll discuss how reducing unnecessary volume not only helps athletes stay healthy, fast, and powerful—but also protects coaches from burnout in an increasingly demanding year-round volleyball landscape.

This is your roadmap to helping athletes play better, jump higher, and stay available all season long—by doing less, done better.

Coaches will learn:

• How to implement high-impact, low-volume training approaches—rooted in Feed the Cats—that develop speed, power, and vertical jump without adding stress to already overloaded athletes.
• How chronic fatigue masks performance and why nervous system “freshness” is essential for in-season development, especially for athletes playing volleyball year-round.
• How to use sprint timing, approach touch testing, and force plate metrics to measure performance, track trends throughout the season, and guide smarter programming decisions.
• How quality-over-quantity practice design improves athlete health, enhances performance, and reduces burnout for both athletes and coaches.