Coach Danny Schaechter joins the Feed the Cats Podcast to talk about speed development, performance training, and what it takes to develop elite football players.

Coach Schaechter is the current Offensive Coordinator and Speed/Performance Coach at Loyola Academy, one of the top high school football programs in the country. Over the years, he has worked with some of the best young football talent in the game, including NFL quarterback Caleb Williams.

Danny also shares how his approach to training has evolved over the past 8+ years. After initially being skeptical of some of the ideas behind Feed the Cats and Sprint-Based Football, he began incorporating many of those principles into his own training and coaching.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Speed development and maximizing athletic performance
• Why football players don't need to be constantly conditioned
• Training for maximum outputs instead of accumulating fatigue
• Developing elite football talent
• The importance of sprinting, speed, recovery, and performance
• Building a high-performance culture within top-tier programs
• Danny's evolution from skepticism to incorporating Feed the Cats principles
• Coaching and developing players at the highest levels of high school football
• Lessons learned from working with elite athletes, including Caleb Williams

This is a great conversation for coaches, athletes, parents, and anyone interested in developing faster, healthier, and better-performing football players.

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In this episode of the Feed the Cats Podcast, we sit down with Jake Cohen, a speed and performance coach and the founder of Jake Cohen Performance.

Jake has coached collegiate track & field, including stops at Louisiana Tech and the University of Illinois, and brings a wealth of experience when it comes to developing faster, more powerful athletes.

We dive deep into speed and power development, including why speed should be a priority, how to train the central nervous system, and how the weight room can be used to make athletes faster and more explosive.

We also discuss:

• Speed and power development
• Developing faster, more explosive athletes
• Training the central nervous system
• The role of lifting in speed development
• Leg training and lower-body strength
• Ballistic lifting and power development
• Velocity-Based Training (VBT)
• How strength and power training should complement speed
• Common mistakes when training athletes
• Jake's experience coaching collegiate track & field
• The current state of college track & field
• How coaches can better develop athletes

Whether you're a track coach, strength coach, athlete, or simply interested in speed and athletic performance, this conversation provides plenty of practical ideas for developing speed, strength, and explosiveness.

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What if speed training—not conditioning, grinding, or simply getting tired—should be the foundation of athletic development?

In this episode of Feed the Cats, we sit down with elite speed and performance coach Brian Kula to discuss speed development, maximal outputs, power, athleticism, and what it really takes to build high-performance athletes.

Brian has trained some of the world's best athletes, including NFL superstar Christian McCaffrey, and we dive into why developing speed was such a priority for Christian—and why speed should be a priority for athletes at every level.

We discuss:
- Why speed development should be the foundation of athletic training
- How speed training can make athletes faster, stronger, and healthier
- Why sprint-based football teams can outperform teams focused heavily on conditioning
- The connection between speed and long-term health
- Why maximal outputs are more valuable than simply making athletes tired
- The importance of adequate rest and recovery for high-performance training
- Eccentric training and force absorption
- Brian Kula's Bounce Fire series
- How athletes can improve their ability to produce and absorb force
- Why constantly training tired can make athletes slower and more sluggish
- The role of sprinting, power, and maximal output in athletic development
- How coaches can rethink traditional conditioning and training methods

The goal isn't to see how exhausted you can make an athlete. The goal is to develop athletes who can produce high levels of speed, power, and force—and recover well enough to do it again.

If you're an athlete, coach, strength coach, or anyone interested in speed training, sprinting, athletic performance, and high-performance training, this episode is packed with ideas worth considering.

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