Dan Pfaff
Head Coach
ALTIS Partners with Brains Bioceutical Corp.
** Supported by Brains Bioceutical Corp. “Brains”, The Global Leader in Cannabinoid Based Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient’s “API’s”, ALTIS continues to pursue the ground-breaking work of the ‘Living Lab’ ** ALTIS is excited to announce that we have partnered with Brains Bioceutical Corp. The ALTIS / Brains Bioceutical Living Lab aims to generate new knowledge by exploring, experimenting, and evaluating new...
ACP Podcast with Nate Shaw of the Arizona Diamondbacks
Hosted by Jason Hettler, the Second Thorne ACP Podcast of the 19-20 season is now available. This episode features Nate Shaw - the Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks - who will be presenting at the December edition of the Thorne ACP. Coach Shaw is currently entering his 11th season as the Strength and Conditioning Coach for the...
ALTIS Women in Coaching Initiative
As part of our ALTIS Women in Coaching Initiative, we are very excited to announce we have formed a collaborative partnership with the Female Coaching Network (FCN), with the shared goal of helping to provide education and opportunity for women interested in coaching. The ALTIS Women in Coaching Initiative is a multi-varied strategy motivated by the under-representation of women in coaching...
“The Mundanity of Excellence” : Thorne ACP Podcast with Keenan Robinson
The first Thorne ACP Podcast of the 19-20 season is now available, featuring the Director of Sports Medicine and Science at USA Swimming - Keenan Robinson. Coach Robinson will be presenting at the December edition of the Thorne ACP. Well known for being the physical preparation coach of Michael Phelps, Keenan is an NATABOC certified athletic trainer and NSCA certified...
Statistical Analysis and Historical Context of the new 400H World Record
When Kendra Harrison broke the 100 hurdle world record in 2016 PJ Vazel wrote a great analysis of this race. So when Dalilah Muhammad recently broke the 400 hurdle world record at USAs there was a clamoring for PJ to write another analysis. Congratulations to both Dalilah and her Coach Boogie Johnson on a fantastic performance. This article provides a...
“Coach to the athlete’s solutions; not yours”
This is a saying that I probably repeat weekly in some way or another. It essentially means that each athlete has their own unique way of moving; that our jobs as performance professionals (in this case, coaches, therapists, and sport scientists) is to appreciate and understand athletes’ ‘movement signatures’, and train them in a way that best aligns to this....
Efficient – Correct – Optimal …. who really cares?
Do you think that you can tell how efficient an athlete is by watching them perform? If you ask most people, Paula Radcliffe had a pretty inefficient running style. Yet she has ran the fastest time of any female in history, in one of the most competitive events - the marathon. In each of her 20,000 plus steps, Radcliffe nodded...
The Need for Problem-Driven Solutions
Each of us comes from chaotic environments with different constraints, challenges, and bottlenecks. Even though we all share a similar goal - performance - it is challenging to directly help solve each other’s specific problems. The complex worlds we live in consist of unique interactions between the elements that make up these worlds. Our context is different. Therefore, the most...
Does How You Move Even Really Matter?
ALTIS CEO & Sprint Coach, Stu McMillan writes: Do you think that you can tell how efficient an athlete is by watching them perform?If you ask most people, Paula Radcliffe had a pretty inefficient running style. Yet she has ran the fastest time of any female in history, in one of the most competitive events - the marathon. In each...
Track and Field is Hard
So you’re a college junior, and you are setting PRs every other weekend. This track & field thing is easy! Right? Not so fast. While it may feel like that, a very high percentage of professional track & field athletes set their personal best performances while they are in college. That’s right - most athletes are at...