STPO, SpatioTemporal Progressive Overload, loads game speed the way weights load strength. Time and space cues set the speed of every rep, at the athlete's own level. You already measure what happened. STPO makes the next rep happen, on cue. The athlete self-corrects into flow and stays there.
The harder the work, the bigger the fun: every rep is a level to beat.
STPO is a way to set the dose of speed work from outside, at the athlete's own level, and to raise it in small steps. It is far more than step timing.
One clip from a phone, or your Optojump file. We read the time and space of the current performance.
We set the tailored progression: cues on time, marks on space, at the athlete's level and on your plan.
3-in-1 drills. The athlete self-corrects on the fly. Your tools check prescribed against done.
Optojump, by Microgate, is the optical bar system that labs, clubs and federations use to measure every step: contact time, flight time and step length, to the millisecond. It tells you what happened. STPO turns those numbers into the next rep, at the athlete's level, and Optojump checks it. No new hardware.
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See how they work togetherA national-level 800 m runner, first session. Rep 1: 263 ms a step, 4 % ahead of the planned rhythm. Minute 19: 272, within 1 % of the plan. Nobody counted out loud: the rhythm coached, and she corrected herself, rep after rep.

And what no stopwatch sees: the step from her left foot lasts longer than from her right, and the gap grows with fatigue: 12 → 18 → 22 ms.
In the 1960s, Yury Verkhoshansky's shock method, the depth jumps that became plyometrics, looked strange. More than fifty years later it is in every strength and conditioning program, and still studied in 2026. In 1997 the same man came to see STPO's roots, called them his shock method made horizontal, and validated them in writing: "a very good idea". Thirty years on, the tech has caught up: in 2026 a phone measures what the method has always done.
Built on established science: progressive overload, the way you already plan strength. Refined in 30 years in the field.
Contact us. If we are a good fit, send us one clip of your athlete and your ideal progression. We send back the most effective training applications, tailored to your numbers.
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