Stuart McMillan: Olympic Coaching, Performance Therapy, and Building a Culture of Collaboration

The Ready State Podcast

Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Stuart McMillan is the co-owner and CEO of ALTIS. He has been a professional coach for over 28 years, and has worked with professional and amateur athletes in a variety of sports - with the focus being on power and speed development. Stuart is an accredited S&C and Sprints Coach, and has spent most of the last two decades working in these two domains. He has personally coached over 70 Olympians at 7 Olympic Games; over 30 of whom have won Olympic medals. Stuart has worked as part of NGBs in 6 countries, and has been part of and/or led ISTs in the United States, Canada and the UK. He has had the unique experience of coaching at three Home Olympic Games, having worked with American athletes at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, Canadians at the 2010 Vancouver-Whistler Games, and British athletes at the 2012 London Games. Most recently, he coached British sprinter Jodie Williams to a sixth-place finish in the 400m at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Stuart has been at ALTIS in Phoenix, AZ since 2013 and they recently moved the entire operation to Atlanta, GA. • This episode of The Ready State Podcast is sponsored by Momentous. Kelly first learned about Momentous when a national champion cyclocross athlete sent him a bottle of PR Lotion as a thank you gift. When one of the best athletes on the planet hands you a tool to unlock your own athletic suffering, you pay attention! Fast forward to today and Momentous is the largest supplier of nutritional support to college, pro-sports teams, and the military in the world. Micronutrient and functional nutritional support isn't a gimmick, it's a performance advantage. Whether you are looking for a high quality daily vitamin, collagen supplementation, or NSF certified protein to support working tissues, no one does it better. For more info, go to thereadystate.com/momentous and use code "TRS" for 20% OFF your first purchase.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett.
0:06.8	And I'm Juliette.
0:08.3	And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast.
0:11.6	This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by our friends at Momentus.
0:24.8	Look, if we delve back into all cultures, you're going to see that predominantly the recommendations and the universality of those diets are
0:31.4	cook your meat on the bone. If you're eating meat, cook it on the bone, and you're going to see
0:36.0	that a lot of those cultures,
0:38.3	basically all of them, eat all of the animal. That means they eat the connective tissue, they
0:42.7	eat the skin. Because even though I don't like to do that, I understand what that's about.
0:47.7	It's about getting enough connective tissue collagen in your diet. One of the things we've come
0:53.7	to understand about how the body works is that the first
0:56.0	adaptation to exercise is not that your muscles get strong, but that your body starts to
1:00.4	reinforce the collagen structures, the support networks of that muscle.
1:04.4	It makes sense.
1:04.9	You have a bigger frame, then you can build the bigger engine.
1:08.1	So, in short, all you have to do is eat tons of collagen all the time.
1:11.8	The problem is most of us don't have access to that level of collagen or we can't eat the
1:17.4	bone broth or do that enough. So I am a huge fan of adding vitamin C and collagen into your program.
1:24.5	Why? Because it's about ligaments, it's tendon health, and it's about the structures
1:28.4	of your musculature. It's about supporting all of the big engines. One of the easiest ways to do that
1:34.7	is to supplement it. Our friends at Momentus have the best collagen on the planet with vitamin C
1:39.9	already in there, so you don't even have to add it. You don't have to have the orange juice in the
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