About Kajetan | malinowski.training

Kajetan Malinowski — former competitive soccer player

Before the ACL. The injury that changed everything.

NSCA Certified · ALTIS Internship Graduate

I didn't start as a running coach. I started as a soccer player.

For years, the pitch was everything. Competitive soccer shaped how I moved, how I competed, and how I thought about athletic performance. Then came the ACL.

The injury that ended my playing career forced me to look at the body differently — not as something to push harder, but as a system to understand. I became obsessed with the question: why do athletes break down? And more importantly, how do you build them back better?

That question took me from Warsaw to Phoenix, Arizona — to ALTIS, one of the world's premier sprint and performance training centers. The internship changed everything. I trained alongside legendary sprint coaches Dan Pfaff and Stu McMillan. I watched how they diagnosed movement, how they built programs around an athlete's specific dysfunction, not just their sport. The methodology was sharp, systematic, and grounded in biomechanics in a way I hadn't seen before.

Back in Warsaw, I've carried that approach into everything I do. Whether I'm working with a marathon runner, a sprinter, or a football player dealing with recurring hamstring problems — the process starts the same way: understand how they move, find what's broken, and fix it at the root.

Certification

NSCA — Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist

ALTIS Internship

Sprint & Performance Training — Phoenix, AZ

Biomechanics

Mentorship under Greg Hawthorne

Background

Former Competitive Soccer Player

Who I Learned From

Trained at ALTIS — Alongside the Best

ALTIS isn't just a training center — it's where the world's top sprint and performance coaches converge. During my internship, I had the rare opportunity to learn directly from two of the most respected minds in the game.

Dan Pfaff

Legendary Sprint Coach · ALTIS

One of the most decorated sprint coaches in history, Dan Pfaff has guided athletes to Olympic gold medals and world records across multiple decades. His systems-level approach to sprint development and athlete management is unmatched in the field. Training alongside Pfaff at ALTIS shaped the diagnostic precision I bring to every athlete I work with.

Stu McMillan

CEO of ALTIS · Performance Coach

Stu McMillan leads ALTIS as CEO and one of its principal coaches. His thinking on speed development, strength-speed integration, and the philosophy of athletic preparation has influenced a generation of coaches worldwide. Having access to Stu during the internship — seeing how he builds culture and methodology simultaneously — was an education I couldn't have gotten anywhere else.

Coaching Philosophy

Fix the Pattern. Not Just the Pain.

Most athletes treat symptoms. I look for causes.

When a runner comes to me with recurring hamstring issues, the problem is rarely just the hamstring. It's a movement pattern — a compensation — that's been loading that tissue in the wrong way for months or years. Fix the pattern, and the problem goes away for good. Treat the symptom, and it keeps coming back.

This approach is sport-agnostic. The fundamentals of how humans move, accelerate, decelerate, and absorb force don't change based on which sport you play. What changes is how those fundamentals apply to your specific demands — and that's where individualized programming comes in.

I work with runners, football players, basketball players, and multi-sport athletes. The methodology is the same. The programs are different.

See How We Work Together

01 — Assess

Every athlete starts with a movement assessment. I need to see how you move before I can build anything.

02 — Identify

I find the dysfunction — the compensations, weaknesses, and mechanical inefficiencies that are limiting performance or causing injury.

03 — Build

I design a program that targets the root cause. Corrective work, strength development, and sport-specific performance — in the right order.

04 — Progress

We track, we adapt, and we push. The goal isn't just to feel better — it's to perform better, for longer.

From the Pitch
to the Track.

I didn't start as a running coach. I started as a soccer player.

Trained at ALTIS — Alongside the Best

Fix the Pattern. Not Just the Pain.

Let's Work Together

From the Pitchto the Track.

I didn't start as a running coach. I started as a soccer player.

Trained at ALTIS — Alongside the Best

Fix the Pattern. Not Just the Pain.

Let's Work Together

From the Pitch
to the Track.