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10/13/2026

🏃 An athlete can be incredibly fast and still move in ways that challenge everything we think we know about sprint mechanics.

So when do those movement strategies become a problem?

In this clip from the ALTIS Team Speed Coach Certification, Danny Foley examines a powerful athlete with some unconventional sprint mechanics.

Significant hip rotation. Reactive knee extension. Lateral trunk bending. Asymmetries that become particularly interesting when we consider the athlete's history of knee issues.

But here's the important distinction: Observation alone doesn't tell us what those patterns mean.

Danny explains how movement analysis, force plate data, isometric testing, athlete feedback, and clinical assessment come together to inform better decisions.

The question becomes: How much are these strategies helping the athlete perform, and how much might they be contributing to tissue stress?

And this is precisely why we created Team Speed.

⏳ 6 DAYS TO GO — TEAM SPEED STARTS OCTOBER 19!

We believe the Team Speed Coach Certification is the most important professional development program available for coaches responsible for speed in team sport.

Developed by ALTIS in collaboration with Les Spellman and Danny Foley, this first-of-its-kind, six-month certification brings together three world-renowned experts and their distinct perspectives:

🧠 Stuart McMillan & ALTIS: How to think about speed. Biomechanics, systems, coordination, and better decision-making.

🏃 Les Spellman: How to apply it. Practical speed development, on-field progressions, and programming.

💪 Danny Foley: How to sustain it. The critical relationship between athlete health, readiness, and performance.

Together, they've built a comprehensive education in team sport speed development, connecting the science, the practical application, and the health considerations that underpin performance.

This is the standard we believe speed education in team sport should be held to.

📅 We begin October 19. Limited places remain.

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10/13/2026

🦵 The knee often pays the price for what's happening at the hip and ankle.

But understanding why requires looking beyond the knee itself.

In this clip from the ALTIS Team Speed Coach Certification, Danny Foley breaks down how forces are redistributed throughout the kinetic chain, and what that means for athletes exposed to high-speed running.

Consider two common scenarios:

🔹 Poor ankle stiffness: When the foot and ankle struggle to provide an effective interface with the ground, the knee may be required to absorb greater force demands.

🔹 Limited hip rotation or lumbopelvic control: When the hip cannot adequately manage rotational demands, the knee may be required to provide additional stability, increasing compressive stress.

The important consideration? It's rarely one force, one movement, or one isolated weakness that determines an athlete's risk.

It's the combination of forces, the magnitude and frequency of exposure, and the individual athlete's capacity to tolerate them.

And that's where effective coaching becomes a question of understanding relationships, managing load, and making better decisions.

⏳ 6 DAYS TO GO — TEAM SPEED STARTS OCTOBER 19!

We believe the Team Speed Coach Certification is the most important professional development program available for coaches responsible for speed in team sport.

Created by ALTIS in collaboration with Les Spellman and Danny Foley, this first-of-its-kind, six-month certification brings together three world-renowned experts to address the full spectrum of speed development.

🧠 Stuart McMillan & ALTIS: How to think — biomechanics, systems, coordination, and decision-making.

🏃 Les Spellman: How to apply — on-field speed development, progressions, and programming.

💪 Danny Foley: How to sustain — athlete health, readiness, tissue capacity, and performance.

Three leading perspectives. One comprehensive system for developing speed in team sport.

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📅 We begin October 19. Limited places remain.

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10/13/2026

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10/12/2026

In 13 years at ALTIS, we believe this is the best educational program we've ever built.

Developing speed in team sport requires you to understand the whole system.

The biomechanics and principles that underpin speed. The drills, progressions and programming that translate those principles onto the field. And the health, readiness and physical capacity that determine what an athlete can actually do.

These aren't separate subjects. They're different parts of the same job.

And that's exactly why we created the Team Speed Coach Certification.

Built by Stuart McMillan, Les Spellman and Danny Foley, it's a comprehensive, three-level education pathway bringing together the knowledge, practical application and decision-making required to develop speed in team sport.

🎓 LEVEL I: SYSTEM FOUNDATIONS

Over six months, you'll learn how to build and apply a complete speed development system, supported by live discussions with the educators, real-world case studies, an evolving Living Library and a community of practitioners working through the same challenges.

Our first cohort has graduated. Their feedback has reinforced our belief in what we've built.

Now we're preparing to welcome Cohort 2.

⏳ 7 DAYS TO GO. OCTOBER 19.

If developing speed is part of your responsibility, we believe this is the most comprehensive education you can undertake in this area.

Places are limited.

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10/12/2026

🦘 Let’s normalize skipping for adults.

Skipping might be one of the most underrated tools for adults looking to move better, improve coordination, and rebuild their ability to sprint.

During his appearance on the Huberman Lab Podcast with Dr. Andrew Huberman, ALTIS CEO Stu McMillan explained why skipping deserves a place in your training.

💡 Skipping challenges many of the same qualities we rely on when sprinting: rhythm, coordination, stiffness, and the ability to produce and absorb force. It's adaptable, accessible, and offers a progressive way to prepare your body for higher-speed movement.

Following the podcast, Stu created a FREE 3-part video series to help you put these principles into practice.

🎥 Part 1: Why You Should NOT Sprint (And What to Do Instead)

🎥 Part 2: Skipping — The Secret to Staying Athletic for Life

🎥 Part 3: The Warm-Up — More Than Just Preparation

Across the series, Stu shares practical drills and progressions to help you rebuild the physical qualities needed for sprinting, manage injury risk, and maintain athleticism as you age.

Whether you're returning to sprinting after years away or simply want to move with greater confidence, this series offers a practical place to start.

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10/11/2026

Two athletes. Two very different sprinting strategies. Both world-class.

Su Bingtian and Usain Bolt demonstrate something important about sprint mechanics: athletes can achieve exceptional performances using very different movement strategies.

Yet much of how we teach sprinting is still influenced by the search for an optimal technical model.

In this extract from Month 6 of the ALTIS Team Speed Coach Certification, Stuart McMillan challenges that thinking.

The question is whether we're assessing what an athlete actually needs, or measuring them against a model developed from someone else's movement.

Stu uses Su Bingtian's development under Randy Huntington to illustrate the importance of understanding individual constraints, measuring how athletes produce speed, and revisiting those measurements as training progresses.

And you don't need a sophisticated biomechanics lab to begin applying these principles.

Basic video, a measured distance, and consistent observation can tell you a great deal about an athlete's sprinting strategy.

The important part is returning to those measurements as the athlete develops.

Are you coaching the individual, or coaching towards an average?

🎓 This extract comes from 'The Su Bingtian Case' which is one of Stuart McMillan's Month 6 modules in the ALTIS Team Speed Coach Certification.

Developed with Les Spellman and Danny Foley, this six-month certification brings together the science, practical application, and health considerations involved in developing speed for team sport.

⏳ We start October 19th — just 8 days away!

Final registration is now open, with limited places remaining.

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10/11/2026

When Randy Huntington began working with Su Bingtian, the Chinese sprinter was already one of the fastest men in Asia.

His exceptional step frequency was a major part of what made him successful. But Huntington believed Su had reached a point where continuing to develop his existing strengths would produce diminishing returns.

The bigger opportunity lay in addressing what was holding him back.

Specifically, two physical limitations: force production and ankle stiffness.

As Stuart McMillan explains in this extract, there are times when developing an athlete's strengths is the right approach. But there are also times when those strengths have been developed sufficiently, and the greatest opportunity for improvement comes from raising the floor.

In Su's case, targeted work on those limiting capacities helped him progress from 9.99 to an Asian record of 9.83 seconds over four years.

The coaching challenge is knowing when to build the ceiling and when to raise the floor.

And that starts with understanding the individual athlete.

🎓 This extract comes from The Su Bingtian Case, one of Stuart McMillan's Month 6 modules in the ALTIS Team Speed Coach Certification.

Developed in collaboration with Les Spellman and Danny Foley, this six-month certification connects the science, practical application, and health considerations involved in developing speed for team sport.

⏳ We start October 19th — just 8 days away!

Final registration is now open, with limited places remaining for our next cohort.

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We made some bold claims when we launched Team Speed. Six months later, our first graduates are having their say. 👀🏃 Tea...
10/09/2026

We made some bold claims when we launched Team Speed. Six months later, our first graduates are having their say. 👀

🏃 Team Speed Coach Certification is the world's first comprehensive, multi-level certification dedicated to speed development in team sport.

Created by Stuart McMillan, Les Spellman and Danny Foley, it brings together the science, coaching principles and practical application of speed development into one connected education pathway.

🎓 Level I: System Foundations is where it begins.

Over six months, you'll learn how to build a complete speed development system — from understanding biomechanics and identifying what matters in an athlete's movement, to designing effective on-field progressions, programming speed within team environments, and managing the health and readiness factors that influence performance.

You'll learn directly from Stu, Les and Danny through a structured curriculum, live calls, practical case studies and ongoing discussion with an international community of practitioners.

Our first cohort has now graduated, and their feedback speaks for itself.

⏳ Cohort 2 begins October 19. Just 10 days to go.

Places are limited.

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What are you reading this week?Every week, more than 43,000 coaches and performance professionals receive ideas, insight...
10/08/2026

What are you reading this week?

Every week, more than 43,000 coaches and performance professionals receive ideas, insights and practical education from ALTIS — straight to their inbox.

From Dan Pfaff’s Between the Lines and Stu McMillan’s Outside the Lines, to new articles, coaching conversations, research, resources and the latest from across ALTIS.

The aim is simple: share things worth reading, thinking about, and bringing back into your own practice.

It’s free to join, and when you subscribe, you’ll also receive 10% off your first ALTIS digital product.

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10/07/2026

There’s more to hamstring work than loading the hamstring.

In this Team Speed clip, Danny Foley walks through a wall-supported single-leg cross hinge — an exercise he uses with almost everybody, whether they have a history of hamstring injury or not.

What makes the explanation useful is everything happening around the hamstring.

Where is the center of pressure through the foot? What is the back leg doing? Where is the pelvis sitting? What changes when load is removed, but range and rotation increase?

Danny starts with a loaded isometric at a sustainable end range, then removes the kettlebell and uses the additional freedom to explore more range and rotation.

The exercise is simple. The reasoning behind it is where things get interesting.

As Danny explains, improving the position and mechanical relationships around the pelvis can change the inputs the hamstring receives — and potentially how well those inputs are tolerated.

That wider way of looking at the athlete runs throughout Team Speed.

As one coach from our first cohort told us:

💬 “It’s more than just speed. It will make you think about the way you look at everything.”

Team Speed Coach Certification brings Stuart McMillan, Les Spellman and Danny Foley together for six months to explore speed from different, but connected, perspectives.

Cohort 2 starts October 19 and final registration is now underway.

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