Episode 111: "You Can't Sprint — Yet: What Olympic Coach Stuart McMillan Wants Every Athlete (and Non-Athlete) to Know About Speed

Stuart McMillan has coached at 10 Olympic Games, helped athletes from 19 countries medal in Rio, and built ALTIS — one of the most respected human performance organizations in the world — out of a million dollars of debt and what he openly calls "straight-up chaos." In this episode, Stuart breaks down what speed actually is, why almost nobody — including trained athletes — can truly sprint, and why that gap between your engine and your chassis is exactly where injuries are born. He unpacks the most overlooked principles of sprint training, explains what "earning the right to sprint" really looks like for everyday people, and shares how decades at the tip of the spear with the fastest humans alive have shifted his focus toward something bigger: helping the rest of us move well, move fast, and keep doing it for decades to come.🔑 What You'll Learn in This Episode⚡ Why most people literally cannot sprint — and what to do about it before you try🏗️ The engine vs. chassis framework — why raw power means nothing without the structure to handle it🏅 What it took to coach athletes from 19 countries to the 2016 Rio Olympics — and what nearly broke ALTIS getting there🐢 The counterintuitive lesson Stuart gives every athlete, coach, and entrepreneur: slow down to go fast🧠 The "seek, sense, share" knowledge framework Stuart has used since 2010 to stay at the frontier of performance🏃 What sprinting actually is — and why your Tabata workout absolutely does not count🔧 How Dan Pfaff turned a long jumper with 17 hamstring tears in 3 years into an Olympic gold medalist🎓 Why traditional coaching education is failing athletes — and what ALTIS is building to fix it🌍 How Stuart is taking elite sprint science out of the track and into the hands of everyday people🔮 What the next 10 years looks like for one of the most influential performance coaches alive LINKS:https://www.drjeremykoenig.com/https://www.instagram.com/drjeremykoenig/https://www.youtube.com/@drjeremykoenigHere's the link for this week's episode: https://drjeremykoenig.substack.com/.