Stuart McMillan
ALTIS CEO
Bandwagon-Jumping and Virtue-Signaling
When a reply to a recent email simply read “BANDWAGON JUMPER!” (yes - in all caps), I wasn’t surprised - but, as someone who values complexity and nuance - I was disappointed. In the last couple of weeks, we have received a ton of positive feedback on our latest efforts to support women and minority coaches. In addition, we have...
Play the Game FASTER
“How do I make my players faster?” As a coach, this seems like an important question to ask yourself, right? It is! But not the most important question. The most important question is, “how do I make my players faster in the game?” Let’s say you train a group of twenty 15-year-old football players for 12 weeks. Like any good...
How a Great Mentor Can Change your Life
If I had to point to one reason I have enjoyed a successful coaching career, I would say because I have been well-mentored. Let me explain. Mentorship is a relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. It is the cornerstone to develop expertise in a profession. Without...
Old Books
I have a rule: if someone I trust recommends a book, I buy it. Immediately. I may not read it right away (heck, I may not EVER read it), but at least I know it's there - ready to be read when the time is right. The trouble with this method is that most people recommend a book they just...
Jamaican Swagger
Back in 2013, I wrote the following post while I was staying in Jamaica with my buddy Donovan Bailey. Aside from doing a lot of nothing, I spent a ton of time at tracks, talking to coaches, watching young athletes train, talking to former athletes, and trying to further understand what exactly it is about this tiny island that enables...
Perfection
I have made a lot of mistakes in my career; as a person, a coach, and a business owner. I'm not proud of those mistakes - but without them, I am not the person, coach, or business-owner that I am today. There is an honesty in making mistakes - a necessary confrontation with reality. People seem proud of their perfectionism,...
The Joneses
"the leaves of a tree delight us more than the roots"Tolstoy We have a natural proclivity to gravitate towards that which is new, and exciting. The newest Apple product, the bigger house, the faster car; we're on a never-ending quest to out-do each other. And ourselves. Just two decades ago, things that were new, or didn't even exist, are now...
Elevator Philosophy
As coaches, we are faced with multiple questions every day, and having a framework to guide us in answering these questions is essential. It is an obvious statement - but one that is surprisingly often overlooked. Rather than writing programs based upon educated personal beliefs (or a 'training philosophy'), many of us mindlessly prescribe what was given to us when...
Sport Science – what is the point?
This is a guest-post by Canadian Strength Coach and Sport Scientist, Dr. Matt Jordan. Back in 2014, while we were coaching our respective athletes at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, we sat down and discussed quite a few topics in depth. This post was the result of one of these discussions - and was based on a question I had...
Just a Dumb Coach
Jodie Williams is smarter than me. As hard as it is for me to admit that, it is true. Anaso Jobodwana is also smarter than me. So is Lolo Jones. And Kaillie Humphries. And Ameer Webb. Andre De Grasse. Steve Mesler. Christian Malcolm. Glenn Smith. And a few hundred other folk who have had the (dis?)pleasure of my...
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