Gymnastics Flexibility/Mobility

August 11, 2026

Overhead Shoulder Flexibility for Gymnasts: Beyond Passive Stretching

Here’s the thing most coaches miss about overhead flexibility: you can stretch the shoulder every single day and still watch a handstand line not improve. That’s because full overhead motion

May 2, 2023

Improve Split and Leap Flexibility With This Step By Step Guide

Today on the podcast I want to address a question I often get: How can I improve my splits and leaps? Well, I’ve got an awesome lecture from our popular

August 16, 2022

A Step by Step Guide to Improving Flexibility

Today I am very excited to bring to you an episode that I did as a guest, on my good friend Chad Vaughn’s phenomenal new podcast; The Barbell Mobility Podcast.

December 13, 2021

The Top 5 Best Active Split Flexibility Drills for Bigger Gymnastics Leaps

Split flexibility is essential for gymnasts if they want bigger jumps and leaps. But, just doing static split stretching isn’t enough to see progress and get jaw-dropping levels of flexibility

October 12, 2021

Answering Your Flexibility Questions (Community Q&A Part 3)

Today on the podcast we are continuing the popular series of the Q&A’s, answering people’s questions directly from the community. Each part is 30 minutes and I’ll be answering five

February 2, 2020

The Ultimate Gymnastics Flexibility Guide

*Readers Note – This gymnastics flexibility guide is a very long and in-depth blog post. The first few sections of this blog are background and explanation for flexibility methods using

December 6, 2020

Full Gymnastics Hip and Shoulder Flexibility Lecture Now Available

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

December 4, 2018

Shoulder Flexibility Tips for Bigger Trampoline Skills with Steve Gluckstein

I’m really excited to branch out into the trampoline side of gymnastics with some new content. I had very little exposure to competitive trampoline as a gymnast. Although I have

November 13, 2018

The Exact Hip Flexibility Exercises I Use To Improve Splits and Pike Shapes in Gymnasts

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

November 10, 2018

Free Access To All Of My Gymnastics Book Chapters Now Available

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

November 10, 2018

Download My Free 10 Minute Hip and Shoulder Flexibility Circuits

Every gymnastics coach or medical provider wants to have flexibility drills that do 3 things Get results (that actually stick around) Are safe Improve skills The problem is, we only

November 10, 2018

The “Why, What, and How” for Soft Tissue Care in Gymnasts

The concept of soft tissue care has absolutely blown up in the last few years for all sports, but even more so gymnastics. Foam rolling, lacrosse ball work, stick massages,