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Let me start with the shift that reframes everything: the old idea that “gymnasts peak at 16” is gone. Athletes are now competing well into their twenties, and the moment you plan for a career that runs past 22, how you treat the 10-to-14-year-old in front of you completely changes.
Those years are a crossroads — puberty, rising training hours, harder skills, and a gro...
Core training might be the noisiest discussion in all of gymnastics. What exercises? How many reps and sets? Is this one dangerous? Will that one actually help skills?
After a decade of digging through the research and testing it in the gym, here’s the good news: it gets simple once you stop collecting random drills and start training the core for wha...
I want to start with something I don’t say often enough.
The overwhelming majority of gyms I work with are full of people doing this beautifully.
I have coaches who text me at 9pm on a Tuesday to ask whether a kid can start rope climbs yet. Gym owners who rearrange an entire rotation so an athlete in a boot still has somewhere to belong. Parents who drive four h...
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 is a kinetic chain, with many possible issues, and the first link isn’t the shoulder joint. When we understand the anatomy and stop yanking on the wrong tissue, we...