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Lesson 3:
Overcoming Traditional Biases in Football Coaching
This segment delves into the challenges of introducing innovative practices in football coaching, highlighting the success of in-season sprint training popularized by Kyle Bolton at TCU and Les Pelman's training of top NFL draft picks. The speaker discusses the deep-rooted biases and evolutionary tendencies that make coaches resistant to change, such as survivorship bias, anchor bias, and confirmation bias. These biases contribute to the persistence of traditional methods in football, despite evidence of the benefits of new approaches. The segment emphasizes the importance of breaking away from these biases to embrace more effective training methods.
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The "Feed the Cats: The Revolution Starts" lecture is a transformative approach to training in sports, particularly focusing on sprints in football. This course advocates for a radical shift from traditional, volume-heavy training methods to a more efficient and athlete-centered regimen. The core philosophy, developed by the innovative coach Tony Holler, emphasizes quality over quantity, priori...