The Robbie Bourke Podcast

Episode 269: Stu McMillan


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This episode's guest is Stu McMillan.


Stu is CEO and Short Sprints Coach at ALTIS. Stu has worked with professional and amateur athletes in a variety of sports with a focus on power and speed development, and he has personally coached move than 70 Olympians at nine Olympic Games, winning over 30 Olympic medals. He has worked as part of national governing bodies in six countries and has been part of and/or led integrated support teams in the United States, Canada, and the UK. Stuart has also accrued the unique experience of coaching at three home Olympic Games, working with American athletes in 2002 at the Salt Lake City Games, Canadians in 2010 at Vancouver-Whistler, and British athletes in 2012 at the London Olympics. Most recently, he coached British sprinter Jodie Williams to a sixth-place finish in the 400m at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

On this episode Stu and I discuss:

  • What was it like moving from the UK to Canada when he was 12?
  • Where is Stu currently with his training system/ model for short sprinters?
  • How does Stu measure what matters within his system?
  • Stu shares his thoughts on force-velocity and load-velocity profiling
  • Stu talks about effectiveness vs efficiency
  • I ask Stu when is it appropriate to try and change technique?
  • I ask Stu to discuss the utilization of potentiation days and how he currently designs his mircocycles
  • Stu gives his take on timing all sprints during the training process
  • I ask Stu for his current thoughts on Frans Bosch's concepts
  • I ask Stu about the thought process of always needing to sprint maximally to get faster
  • I ask Stu the difference between acceleration development for field-base athletes vs sprinters
  • Where did Stu get his love for music?
  • Where did Stu get his love for coffee?
  • I ask Stu, if he could learn from 3 individuals for week, who would he choose and why?
  • This was a great discussion with Stu and I hope you guys really enjoy it.


    Stay Strong,
    RB

     

    Show Notes:

    Website - altis.world

    Twitter - @StuartMcMillan1

    Facebook - Stuart McMillan

    Instagram - fingermash

     

    Books Mentioned:

    Running

    Strength Training and Coordination 

    The Second sex

     

    People and Resources mentioned:

    ALTIS 

    Dan Pfaff

    JB Morin

    Fergus Connolly 

    Paula Radcliffe

    Jim Furyk

    Usian Bolt

    Kevin Tyler

    Charlie Francis 

    Clyde Hart

    Michael Johnson

    Anatolij Bondarčuk

    Les Spellman

    Frans Bosch

    Yuri Verkhoshansky

    Derek Hansen

    Tim Caron

    ALTIS Need for Speed Course

    ALTIS Foundations Course

    Derek Evely 

    Robert Johnson

    Steve Hooker

    Steve Lewis

    Simone De Beauvoir 

    Constance Borde

    Keith Davids

    Abraham Lincoln

    Martin Luther King Jr

    ...more
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