Offseason cardio training is one of the most important things we can do to help build endurance, get our athletes more prepared for pre-season training, and also increase their energy levels for long practices. Benefits of general mixed off-season cardio training include Improved recovery between turns during a practice Improved recovery between events, and more […]
Trying to plan practices, weeks of training, and also squeeze everything into training hours is one of the most overwhelming things for coaches, medical providers, and strength coaches. If there isn’t a systematic process to planning and implementation, it just leads to tons of frustration and people throwing their hands up saying it’s too much. […]
Last week in part 1 of this blog/podcast series, I talked about some common issues surrounding the lower body and hip, knee, and ankle injuries in gymnastics. In this follow up part 2, I will be chatting on the upper body. More specifically, I’m going to cover concepts related to the shoulder, elbow, and wrist. […]
Today I’m excited to bring everyone one of the most asked about topics in my work, which is discussing the most common injuries that gymnasts face. Because of how massive this of a topic is, I wanted to make sure I broke it up into digestible chunks. So in this first 45-minute piece, I talk […]
The sport of gymnastics is changing quite a bit, with our approach to Physical Preparation or Strength and Conditioning, being one of the largest overhauls going on. There are a few reasons for this, but the biggest causes in my mind are The sport has become much harder with lower body forces up to 8-15x […]
Safely improving hip and shoulder flexibility in gymnasts to get new skills or better scores is one of the most common questions I get. It can be one of the most confusing things for gymnastics coaches and medical providers to tackle, especially when the internet has access to 100s of drills and people’s opinion on […]
Without a doubt, one of the hardest and most confusing things for everyone in artistic gymnastics is how to return a gymnast to training safely following a back injury. Issues ranging from simple muscle strains all the way to more complicated stress fractures, spondylolethesis, and symptomatic disc bulges with irritated nerve roots can me really […]
Pretty excited about this! After a few years of experimenting and updating my gymnastics movement screen, the latest version is now available. I’m lucky to have a lot of ex-gymnasts who are finishing their doctoral work in Physical Therapy come to do a rotation with me at Champion. A huge shout out to Jan Konkle, […]
I am incredibly excited to share with listeners an interview with someone who I have looked up to for many years, Dr. Stuart McGill. Dr. McGill has a PhD from the University of Waterloo and is one of the most internationally known researchers in spine biomechanics, having worked at The University of Waterloo for over […]
I was going to hold off on publishing this until I developed the pieces more, but I honestly think that it is too important to wait on sharing with the gymnastics world. I wish I could say that injury rates and burnout rates have dropped over the last 5 years in gymnastics, but it’s not […]
