Today in the podcast, I am excited to have senior British artistic gymnast Ellie Downie. Ellie from Notts Gymnastics Club has won multiple international medals and titles and is the All-around 2017 European gymnastics champion, the first British gymnast to win a major all-around title. Her big sister Becky Downie was on the podcast a […]
Today on the podcast, we are bringing you part two of our Hip Medical Inservice. Which is training I provide for doctoral students at Champion Physical Therapy clinic in Boston to educate medical providers on different injuries in gymnastics. Last week was a pretty in-depth episode looking at the anatomy and the biomechanics of the […]
Today on the podcast we are taking a little bit of a detour and bringing you some medical information. As many people know, I’m a Physical Therapist and a Sports PT that works with a lot of athletes, gymnasts, baseball players, soccer players, etc. I treat a lot of different injuries, but one of the […]
Today on the podcast, we are bringing you the second installment of our monthly Office Hours, a free Zoom meeting for Hero Lab members to ask questions, talk about various problems they’re dealing with and also discuss current trends happening inside the sport. As many of you know I have an online educational group called […]
Today on the podcast is part two of the lectures I was asked to present by the Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association, to all of the NCAA coaches on strength conditioning for gymnasts. Part two is focused on the exact weightlifting exercises you should be doing with your gymnasts, balanced and blended with the traditional model […]
Today on the podcast I was asked by the Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association, to give lectures to all of the NCAA coaches on strength and conditioning for gymnasts. A blended model, which is gymnastic specific, rope climbs and handstands, balanced with weight training and proper exercises is the most effective way to build explosive power […]
Today’s podcast is a great one, I sit down and have an incredible discussion with Kim Shore, who was part of Gymnastics Canada’s Safe Sport which I did a series of webinars for on gymnastics culture. We have talked a lot behind the scenes on this subject and I wanted to get Kim on the […]
Lower back pain is something so many gymnasts struggle with. Depending on the research study you read, between 71% – 96.6% of all the injuries reported are to the lower back. Most literature puts lower back pain as the second or third most common injury in gymnastics, just behind ankle sprains and knee injuries. Sadly, […]
Today on the podcast, I have some awesome information to help parents wrap their heads around competitive gymnastics. My good friend and crowd favorite Eva Shute Director of Gymnastics Operations and I sat down to address a frequent request we get from so many parents and coaches, to talk about parent-coach relationships. So for parents, […]
Today in the podcast we are bringing you something very exciting, a little behind the scenes a peek at something we’ve been doing for the Shift community. I run an online group called The Hero Lab, in which we have a private discussion forum and a community full of hundreds of medical providers, gymnastics coaches, […]
