These tips from some friends of mine who are medical professionals, as well some tips from myself, were originally made for college gymnasts. They were the second part to this blog post offering advice from some of the best college gymnasts competing in the last decade. But, due to how important they are I think […]
I’ve been working on this project for a long time, and I’m so pumped that it’s finally ready for everyone to check out. If I’m being honest, I had a love-hate relationship with my college gymnastics career. On one hand, it provided me with four of the most incredible years of my life. It also […]
Recently I put together a blog post that outlined exactly what shoulder flexibility exercises and circuits I give to gymnasts who struggle with handstands or pommel horse swings (find it here if interested). A ton of people said they really found it helpful, and that they would love to have the same videos for splits […]
Today is just a quick post for the Gymnastics medical providers out there. I get asked a lot about where I find research, books, or scientific studies for rehabilitation. To be honest, I just do recurring PubMed searches and also try to keep an open network with other professionals to hear new thinges emerging. Here […]
Impact knee and ankle injuries, unfortunately, are something that plague many gymnasts. This is mainly because young athletes are exposed to massive impact forces that may reach 8.8x – 14.9 times body weight, 1000’s of times per month, and pretty much year round (read more about the latest science here). Peak bone on bone impact ankle forces […]
I’m incredibly excited to get this blog post and free lecture out to the gymnastics world. While I fully understand the need to use traditional gymnastics specific physical preparation programs, I firmly believe that a more hybrid approach to development will be the gold standard in our sport very soon. By this, I mean gymnasts utilizing programs […]
6 Months ago I released a pretty big e-book called “Changing Gymnastics Culture: Lessons, Reflections, and Visions for the Future”. It was 450 pages and 16 chapters, and in an effort to help the gymnastics world that is/was in quite a rough spot, I gave it away for free. I was blown away when it […]
It’s around this time of the year that many people in gymnastics worldwide are gearing up for their first competitions. It usually brings with it lots of anxiety, an increase in training intensity, and unfortunately many times an increase in overuse injury rates. People get upset as they seem to struggle before the season has even […]
I originally had another blog post scheduled for today, but after an impromptu podcast last week at Power Monkey Camp, I couldn’t hold out on posting this. I was very fortunate to sit down with two good friends of mine, Jake Dalton and Dave Durante, to hash out some hot topics on where the sport […]
I’m extremely grateful, humbled, and excited to announce that I have been asked to co-teach a brand new Gymnastics Sports Medicine Couse at Harvard this upcoming Spring as part of the 2019 Sports Medicine Conference. I’m teaming up with Dr. Eng, Dr. Markovitch, and some other incredible physicians to provide the first course exclusively for […]
