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Many warm-ups focus on muscles and muscle groups, yet sprinting demands much more.

Every stride requires the spine, pelvis, hips, and limbs to work together as one coordinated system. The body is constantly organizing force, velocity, rhythm, and posture while moving through space.

That is why many of our warm-up activities look less like traditional stretching and more like movement exploration.

Skipping with a PVC overhead. Side-bending through the spine. Leg swings that gradually build range. Simple exercises that prepare athletes to move with freedom, rhythm, and expression.

As Stu McMillan explains:

"Sprinting is fluid and relaxed and mobile, so allow the bones to move with the muscles."

The goal is not to create perfect positions.

The goal is to prepare the body for the demands that come next.

Movement first. Sprinting second.

If you’re looking to start sprinting safely, or return to speed work with a better foundation, we put together a free guide here:

👇 Comment HUBERMAN below, and check your DMs to access a free 3-part video series, teaching you how to start sprinting safely, and warm up effectively

Many warm-ups focus on muscles and muscle groups, yet sprinting demands much more.

Every stride requires the spine, pelvis, hips, and limbs to work together as one coordinated system. The body is constantly organizing force, velocity, rhythm, and posture while moving through space.

That is why many of our warm-up activities look less like traditional stretching and more like movement exploration.

Skipping with a PVC overhead. Side-bending through the spine. Leg swings that gradually build range. Simple exercises that prepare athletes to move with freedom, rhythm, and expression.

As Stu McMillan explains:

"Sprinting is fluid and relaxed and mobile, so allow the bones to move with the muscles."

The goal is not to create perfect positions.

The goal is to prepare the body for the demands that come next.

Movement first. Sprinting second.

If you’re looking to start sprinting safely, or return to speed work with a better foundation, we put together a free guide here:

🌐 If you’re ready to warm up properly, move better, feel stronger, and sprint safely, head here to access a free 3-part video series: https://loom.ly/FEu2aNE

Most Strength & Conditioning Master’s degrees were designed around academic outcomes.

The ALTIS MSc in Strength, Conditioning & Coaching was designed around the realities of coaching and performance.

Built inside high performance sport and delivered by experienced practitioners, the program centers applied problem solving, communication, decision making, and real-world coaching application.

You learn alongside an international network of coaches while earning a fully validated MSc grounded in the environments you actually work in.

Applications are now open for September 2026.

🔗 Learn more: https://loom.ly/bZoPiBs

We’re excited to have Hytro supporting the 2026 ALTIS Speed Summit.

Hytro is helping drive the conversation around how blood flow restriction can be applied inside real performance environments.

Their wearable BFR products are now being used across elite sport, giving coaches new ways to think about preparation, recovery, and athlete support within the flow of training and competition.

That is one of the many reasons why we’re excited to have them involved in this year’s ALTIS Speed Summit. Conversations grounded in practical application, explored alongside coaches actively working in the field.

On Sunday, Chase Lattimer will join Stu McMillan for an on-field practical exploring how BFR can be integrated directly into the warm up environment. Coaches will get to see the process, hear the reasoning behind it, and engage with the discussion in real time.

That blend of ideas, application, and open conversation is a big part of what the ALTIS Speed Summit is about.

June 12–14 📅

Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego 📍

The event is approved for 1.2 Category A CEUs through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

➡️ Book now: https://loom.ly/F0rHdTg

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Output Sports
Bridge Athletics
Kratos Fly Fitness
Hytro
Joe Nimble
TeamBuildr
Feldspar
Momentous
VALD Performance
AK PWR-Cord
USR

What is the separator between good and great athletes?

Stu recently joined for a conversation on warm ups, movement quality, and why the way we move matters long after sport.

Kelsey’s work focuses on helping everyday people train with more intention, consistency, and longevity in mind, while HIITBURN has built a large audience around making fitness feel practical, approachable, and sustainable.

That made this a fascinating crossover between elite performance principles and everyday movement.

Today's clip focuses on what separates good athletes from athletes who end up on podiums?

A lot of people assume it’s force production.
Or power.
Or speed.

But across sport, the common factor is often coordination.

The highest performers are usually the athletes who can organize movement most effectively in space and time.

They may not be the biggest.
They may not be the strongest.
They may not even test the best in isolated qualities.

What they do exceptionally well is connect everything together.

Force.
Timing.
Rhythm.
Position.
Decision-making.
Movement options.

You see it everywhere once you start looking for it.

The sprinter coordinating massive forces in fractions of a second.
The weightlifter moving back under the bar with precise timing.
The basketball player reorganizing their body mid-air.
The football player solving movement problems under pressure.

Many athletes can build capacities.

Far fewer can coordinate those capacities efficiently and repeatedly in competition.

That’s often the separator.

To learn more, access our free 3-part video series on how to start sprinting and warm up for health and performance.

🔗 https://loom.ly/FEu2aNE

The ability to skip may say more about how well you’ll move at 80 than how much weight you can lift today.

Stu recently joined for a conversation on warm ups, movement quality, and why the way we move matters long after sport.

Kelsey’s work focuses on helping everyday people train with more intention, consistency, and longevity in mind, while HIITBURN has built a large audience around making fitness feel practical, approachable, and sustainable.

That made this a fascinating crossover between elite performance principles and everyday movement.

In today’s clip, Stu explains why skipping may be one of the most underrated exercises there is.

“We all need to skip more.”

Then he explains why.

“Don’t forget about the one truly fundamental movement pattern: locomotion.”

Stu breaks down the difference between hip extending and true hip extension.

One is isolated movement.
The other is the ability to project yourself forward dynamically through space.

That quality influences how we walk, run, sprint, change direction, and eventually how we age.

As we get older, one of the biggest capacities we lose is eccentric strength: the ability to absorb force, catch ourselves, and control movement efficiently.

That’s one reason skipping matters so much.

Skipping trains rhythm.
Coordination.
Posture.
Projection.
Elasticity.
Eccentric control.

And unlike many exercises, it connects those qualities into actual movement.

Stu’s advice is simple:
Skip more.
Sprint hills if you can.
Keep training the ability to move dynamically now, so you still have access to it decades from now.

To learn more, access our free 3-part video series on how to start sprinting and warm up for health and performance.

🔗 https://loom.ly/FEu2aNE