Yes I think gymnastics training is invaluable in a coach, however the best gymnasts rarely make the best coaches. For those who found gymnastics easy and never had to struggle to do the skills and go through all the mistakes often find coaching harder because they expect their gymnasts bodies to be able to do things that easily aswell. Those who struggled as gymnasts often had to go through[ Read More... ]

my coach is strict and harsh but is the best coach at our gym.

you could also put on waist weights - the kind that are flat metal are good, don't stick/jab into you.

Short on time? Here's one we did from track; it takes exactly ten minutes and is so hard that a few of our members didn't finish. You sprint 100 meters, than hustle back. You have one minute and whatever is left is rest time. Once it clocks out at one minute, you start sprinting again. You do it ten times. Warning: The first four are failry easy. The sixth is the hardest. If you can push[ Read More... ]

trampoline is also a good fun way to do leg conditioning w/o the impact to your knees and back. here's what the hamm twins wrote in their guestbook on their web on this: [quote]Mostly we do mutliple routines back to back to build endurance, but we also do "cross-train." And, yes, we do work on our endurance at the track. Take a look at the the June Video Calendar and watch the June 21st[ Read More... ]

two types of running: long-distance(steady miles) sprint training-like doing a 250, a 350, a 450, a 450, a350 , and a 250 (meters that is). With steady rest time in between-no more than 20 seconds. Personally, I think sprint training helps A LOT more.

Trampoline is a good way to increase stamina too - jumping and also doing basic skills in a row. In general, add more and more skills to do in a row, take less breaks in between coditioning and skills, etc.

jump roping is good too. when you do it on the beam, it's good for balance too! :D

I like having coaches that have gymnastics experience too. They don't have to have the gold medal or be the star on the Olympics team, but high-level gymnastics experience for coaching high-level, plus the coaching experience counts for a lot.

She broke a hand at practice after that too: [quote]She returned to workouts

Good idea. It always has seemed weird to me for guys to wear leotards too lol.

Personally, I think a coach with gymnastics experience of their own is the best. They know what it means to tumble on the hard floor and know from personal experience that it's good to do tumbling into the pit, tumble track, and mats as well, they know how to use equipment, they know the side of the gymnast, and when they say something like they know it's scary, or something is hard or something[ Read More... ]

How to increase stamina: -especially important for the elite level, for the new code of points, increasing the number of floor tumbling passes from 4 to 5, to 6 or 7 for guys, and longer bars routine, pommel horse routine, etc. Vault is same length lol, but harder skills -Running -Ice Skating - instead of running and it's fun, probably less impact on your knees (not sure, not a doctor!)[ Read More... ]