ALTIS, Phoenix, AZ (2026)

08/30/2026

Sprinting isn’t simply a series of separate phases.

We often talk about acceleration, transition and maximum velocity as distinct parts of sprinting.

And there are good reasons for doing that. Breaking sprinting down can give us useful models for observation, training and coaching.

But the model isn’t the reality.

As Stu McMillan explains in Month 5 of the Team Speed Coach Certification, the athlete doesn’t finish one phase and switch to another. From the first step through to top speed, the system is continuously reorganizing itself as velocity increases and the time available to solve the problem gets shorter.

Every step is influenced by the one before it and the one that follows.

Every step is, as Stu describes it, “a fresh solution the system finds on the fly.”

That matters for coaching.

If we treat acceleration, transition and upright sprinting as completely separate skills, it becomes easy to start chasing the positions we associate with each one.

Instead, Stu asks us to look underneath those positions at the patterns producing them — and how those patterns reorganize as the athlete gets faster.

You can still break sprinting into phases. You can still isolate the first few steps. You can still work specifically on upright sprinting.

Those models can be useful.

But they’re pieces of one continuous pattern of locomotion, not independent events.

That distinction changes what you look for, what you choose to intervene on, and ultimately how you coach speed.

Cohort 2 of the Team Speed Coach Certification starts October 19, bringing together Stu McMillan, Les Spellman and Danny Foley across six months of guided learning.

Early enrollment ends TOMORROW, August 31.

⏳ Save 25% and secure your place for $599.25 instead of $799 with code TS25.

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08/30/2026

When you’re trying to improve mobility, passive range is only part of the equation.

In Month 5 of the Team Speed Coach Certification, Danny Foley looks at how he combines passive mobility work with low-grade isometrics and active contractions.

The examples in this clip include long-duration isometrics, hamstring and glute bridge variations, adduction isometrics, BFR, resisted hip flexion and low-stimulus repetitions.

None of it is particularly aggressive: and that’s the point.

Danny isn’t trying to turn a recovery or mobility session into another training session. The contractions are low grade and the overall stimulus stays low. But there is still an active component.

As Danny explains:

“When we’re trying to improve stretching and mobility, the answer is not just passive range, passive range, passive range.”

If you want an athlete to have greater access to a passive end range, you also need to consider the contractility of the tissue and their ability to actively work within that range.

So rather than thinking of mobility as simply stretching further, the question becomes:

Can the athlete access the range — and can they actively control and produce force within it?

That’s an important point when mobility work is being used to support what the athlete needs to do at speed.

Cohort 2 of the Team Speed Coach Certification starts October 19, bringing together Danny Foley, Stu McMillan and Les Spellman across six months of guided learning.

Early enrollment ends TOMORROW, August 31.

⏳ Save 25% and secure your place for $599.25 instead of $799 with code TS25.

🔗 Registration: loom.ly/u1Uvkgg

08/30/2026

Does getting stronger actually make you faster?

It depends on what’s limiting you.

In Month 5 of the Team Speed Coach Certification, Les Spellman turns his attention to the weight room — but deliberately avoids starting with exercises, sets and reps.

Instead, he starts with a better question:

What are we actually trying to improve?

Because sprinting isn’t simply a test of how much force an athlete can produce.

As speed increases, the demands change.

Early in acceleration, there’s more time to produce force and a greater horizontal contribution. As the athlete gets faster, ground contacts become shorter and the ability to produce and manage force rapidly becomes increasingly important.

The braking component increases. The demands on lower-limb stiffness increase. The ankle, knee and hip have to work together as a spring — storing and returning elastic energy within extremely short periods of time.

So an athlete can get stronger in the weight room without necessarily improving the qualities that are limiting their speed.

That changes the question from:

“How do I make this athlete stronger?”

to:

“What does this athlete need to be able to do at speed — and how can the weight room support that?”

That distinction matters.

As Les explains throughout the lesson, the goal isn’t to find the perfect exercise or copy the weight-room program of an elite sprinter.

It’s to understand the demands first, identify what needs improving, and then select training that actually addresses it.

Context before content.

This is one lesson from Month 5 of the ALTIS Team Speed Coach Certification, where Les’ work on applied speed development is integrated with Stu McMillan’s systems and biomechanics lens and Danny Foley’s health-performance perspective.

Cohort 2 starts October 19.

Early enrollment ends TOMORROW, August 31.

Secure your place now and save 25% — $599.25 instead of $799 with code TS25.

Places are limited, so if you’re planning to join us in October, now is the time to secure your spot.

➡️ Build your system. Become a Team Speed Coach.

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08/30/2026

🦶 Dorsiflexion: think “squeeze and punch.”

When sprinting, the position and stiffness of the foot and ankle matter.

Stu McMillan uses a simple analogy: think about your foot the same way you would your hand when throwing a punch.

You wouldn’t punch with an open, relaxed hand. You create tension through the hand and wrist, then strike with intent.

The same idea applies at the foot and ankle.

“Squeeze and punch.” 🥊

Create an active, dorsiflexed position before ground contact, then attack the ground with a stiff, purposeful foot and ankle.

It’s a simple cue that can help athletes understand the difference between actively preparing for contact and simply letting the foot fall to the ground.

🏈 This is one of the concepts Stu explores in our free 3-part Play Faster video series, looking at how sprint mechanics can transfer to faster, more effective movement in team sports.

🔗 Start the series: https://loom.ly/vbW8134

08/29/2026

THE COACHING EYE STARTS IN ONE WEEK.

If you spend your working life watching athletes move, you probably see plenty.

The harder questions are what those observations actually mean, which ones deserve your attention, and what you should do about them.

That’s what Dan Pfaff will be working through in The Coaching Eye, beginning Saturday, September 5.

Across four Masterclasses, Dan will take you through his approach to:

Movement Identification — learning to dissect movement, recognize postures, shapes and segment coordination, and understand foot mechanics and ground interaction.

Movement Interpretation — distinguishing structural, neuromuscular and fatigue-related issues; hardware from software; and useful compensations from those that may be costing the athlete elsewhere.

Movement Red Flags — recognizing the mechanical warning signs that warrant closer attention and deciding when training, load or technique may need to change.

Movement Intervention — prioritizing what to address, deciding when to change mechanics and when to leave them alone, and assessing whether your intervention is actually working.

Then you’ll put all of that into practice across eight 90-minute Live Immersions with Dan, working through real athlete footage, including video submitted by members of the group.

Donie Fox described coming away with a “keener sense for movement operation” and the ability to make “more appropriate interventions.”

Dr. Leah Humphries said the program helped her “hone my ability to problem-solve in real time.”

LIVE IMMERSION DATES

September 14 — 3:00 PM ET
September 22 — 8:00 PM ET
October 1 — 3:00 PM ET
October 6 — 8:00 PM ET
October 15 — 3:00 PM ET
October 20 — 8:00 PM ET
October 29 — 3:00 PM ET
November 3 — 8:00 PM ET

Every Live Immersion is recorded. If you can’t attend one live, you can submit your athlete footage and questions beforehand for Dan to work through with the group.

We start one week from today — September 5.

If you’ve been thinking about joining Dan for this cohort, now is the time to secure your spot.

👉 Register here: https://loom.ly/U2DdtRM

08/29/2026

Early-bird enrollment for Cohort 2 of Team Speed ends this Sunday, August 31.

If you’ve been thinking about joining us, this weekend is your last opportunity to enroll for $599.25 rather than the regular $799 price.

We’re now five months into our first cohort, so rather than giving you another explanation of what we hoped Team Speed would become, we thought we’d share what the people actually going through it have said.

One comment from Nico Tatusch probably sums it up best:

“Team Speed gave me an actual system instead of just a pile of exercises — a clear framework for progressing speed that I can adapt whether I’m coaching individual sprinters or team sport athletes.”

That idea of having a system comes up again and again in the feedback.

People have talked about being able to take Les’ practical work straight into training, how Danny has helped them connect athlete health and performance, and how Stu’s frameworks have changed the way they think about the problems in front of them.

That’s what we wanted Team Speed to be: a way of connecting the different pieces of speed development so you can make better decisions in your own environment.

Cohort 2 starts October 19.

Early enrollment: $599.25
Regular price: $799
Payment plans available.

Early pricing ends August 31.

➡️ Build your system. Become a Team Speed Coach.

🔗 https://loom.ly/u1Uvkgg

08/27/2026

The feedback coming out of our first Team Speed Coach Certification cohort has been incredibly encouraging.

But what matters most to us is what people are telling us has changed.

As Cohort 1 coach Nico Tatusch put it:

“It gives you an actual system — not just a pile of exercises, but a clear framework for progressing speed qualities that you can adapt to whatever context you’re in.”

That was the intention behind Team Speed from the beginning.

To bring together the expertise of Stu McMillan, Les Spellman and Danny Foley and help you connect speed development, programming, biomechanics, profiling, readiness and athlete health into a system you can apply in your own environment.

Now we're getting ready to do it again.

Cohort 2 begins October 19 — and there are only 5 days left to save 25% on enrollment.

Early enrollment: $599.25
Regular price: $799
Payment plans available.

Early pricing ends August 31.

➡️ Build your system. Become a Team Speed Coach.

🔗 https://loom.ly/u1Uvkgg

08/26/2026

Where Every Stride Really Begins ⚡️

👣 Foot–Ground Interaction is the first point of contact between the body and the environment, and it is the pattern that sets the timing, stiffness, and orientation for everything that follows. Before the foot even touches down, the body organizes itself for impact. In the final moments of swing, the thigh, shank, and foot align to meet the ground with the right stiffness and orientation, and muscles across the chain pre-activate based on the expected surface and speed.

⚡️ When the foot meets the ground, stiffness adapts again. The system yields just enough to absorb load, store elastic energy, and maintain alignment through the ankle, knee, and hip. The arch lowers and widens, the subtalar joint everts, and the Achilles–triceps surae complex begins to preload. As the body’s center of mass moves over the foot, the system reorganizes again. Re-supination begins, the arch recoils, and elastic energy moves back up the chain. By mid-stance, the knee passes underneath the center of mass and the system shifts toward propulsion.

🏃‍♂️ Elite sprinters tend to do this with incredible precision. Developmental sprinters and team sport athletes often struggle here, not because they lack strength, but because the coordination demands are higher. This pattern is built by learning how to meet the ground in a very specific way, at a very specific time, under very short contact windows.

🧰 This is why the Activator Belt matters. It adds a simple task constraint that helps athletes place and orient the foot more effectively. The belt guides the timing and organization of the interaction in a way that is difficult to achieve without it, and when you take the belt off, the athlete often keeps that improved orientation.

🏅 Randy Huntington has used it for close to 30 years, most notably with Su Bingtian who ran the fastest 60 meters ever recorded and set the Asian record of 9.83 in Tokyo.

🔧 A compact, affordable tool that supports one of the hardest patterns to develop.

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Get yours today...

🛠️ You can now get the original Activator Belt, available exclusively through ALTIS in association with Tier 1 Athlete.

🔗 The Activator Belt: https://loom.ly/WjGgPr0

08/26/2026

'In the Pocket', performance flows. When athletes understand how to manage the rhythms of stress, arousal, and attention, their actions become cleaner, calmer, and more precise.

The problem is that pressure pulls many athletes out of that state. Breathing races. Shoulders lift. Focus tightens. Effort goes up while efficiency breaks down.

Most call it a mindset issue. In reality, it starts in the physiology.

Our Pocket Guide Course, In The Pocket: Breath Control for Focus, Recovery, and Readiness, gives coaches and athletes a practical system for staying composed when the stakes rise.

Built from two decades of applied work by Human Performance Specialist Rob Wilson, you will learn how to:

• Use real-time breathing tools to regulate arousal under pressure
• Balance gas and brakes to manage energy through the day
• Apply simple cues that sharpen rhythm and timing in competition
• Build recovery capacity through deliberate state control
• Integrate breathing into warm-ups, main sets, and post-session resets

This course moves from understanding to application with clear models, examples, and a case study that shows how purposeful breathing changed the confidence, control, and recovery of a collegiate 800m athlete.

If you want athletes who stay composed, adapt faster, and hold their technique when it matters, this is a course worth studying.

🎓 In The Pocket: Breath Control for Focus, Recovery & Readiness

💰 Just $65

🔗 https://loom.ly/Ndli--k

08/25/2026

You know how to train speed. But do you have a complete speed system?

One that connects acceleration, max velocity, deceleration and change of direction with the weight room, athlete profiling, readiness, workload, and health?

One that helps you decide what matters for the athlete in front of you — and what to change when they respond differently than expected?

That’s what we’re building inside the ALTIS Team Speed Coach Certification: Level I – System Foundations.

Across six months, Stu McMillan, Les Spellman, and Danny Foley bring three distinct areas of expertise together:

• Systems, biomechanics, and better decision-making
• Applied speed development, profiling, and programming
• The health–performance interface and keeping athletes available to express speed

The goal is to help you connect the pieces into a system you can actually run — across the field, weight room, training week, and season.

You’ll work through acceleration, max velocity, deceleration and COD, speed profiling, weight-room integration, readiness, workload, movement quality, and the decisions that connect them.

And you’ll do it as part of a guided cohort, with live calls, applied examples, discussion, and access to the growing Team Speed Living Library.

Cohort 2 begins October 19.

Early enrollment is currently $599.25 (regularly $799), with a 6 × $125 payment plan available.

Pricing increases September 1.

If you’ve been considering Team Speed, this is the week to join us.

➡️ Build your system. Become a Team Speed Coach.

🔗 Learn more

🔗 https://loom.ly/u1Uvkgg

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