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06/13/2023

Guidelines for Resistance Training In Youth Gymnasts‼️

Recommendation number 3:

➡️ Start each training session with a 5-10 minute dynamic warm-up

The NSCA, the gold standard for strength & conditioning, made a set of guidelines for training youth athletes in the early 2000’s that is 🔥

My blog post is about how gymnastics clubs can apply this to youth gymnasts

14 total recommendations, stay tuned for daily posts over the next few weeks 👍🏻

If you want a sneak peek on the full list, check out my blog post on my website. Follow my linktree in my profile!

06/12/2023

Guidelines for Resistance Training In Youth Gymnasts‼️

Recommendation number 2:

➡️ Ensure the exercise environment is safe & free of hazards

The NSCA, the gold standard for strength & conditioning, made a set of guidelines for training youth athletes in the early 2000’s that is 🔥

My blog post is about how gymnastics clubs can apply this to youth gymnasts

14 total recommendations, stay tuned for daily posts over the next few weeks 👍🏻

If you want a sneak peek on the full list, check out my blog post on my website. Follow my linktree in my profile!

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06/11/2023

Guidelines for Resistance Training In Youth Gymnasts‼️

The NSCA, the gold standard for strength & conditioning, made a set of guidelines for training youth athletes in the early 2000’s that is 🔥

My blog post is about how gymnastics clubs can apply this to youth gymnasts

14 total recommendations, stay tuned for daily posts over the next few weeks 👍🏻

If you want a sneak peek on the full list, check out my blog post on my website. Follow my linktree in my profile!

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05/01/2023

REPOST‼️
Check out Shift Movement Science Podcast for a sneak peek on my talk at the 2023 Shift Symposium
June 23-25th
IT’S VIRTUAL 👩‍💻

In the podcast I dig a little deeper into general factors (workload, gym culture, workout structure) that contribute to overuse knee injuries.

For the symposium, I delve deeper into the research on management of each overuse knee injury and discuss how medical providers can create a strong treatment plan from day 1 to return to sport.

👉🏻check out for more info on the podcast and to sign up for the symposium

👉🏻Shift Movement Science podcast is one of my favorites to listen to on long car rides: fun chats with all sorts of people in the gymnastics world

👉🏻Shift a symposium is the BEST 3 day course for gymnastics coaches, medical providers, and strength & conditioning coaches
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04/27/2023

REPOST‼️
Check out Shift Movement Science Podcast for a sneak peek on my talk at the 2023 Shift Symposium
June 23-25th
IT’S VIRTUAL 👩‍💻

In the podcast I dig a little deeper into general factors (workload, gym culture, workout structure) that contribute to overuse knee injuries.

For the symposium, I delve deeper into the research on management of each overuse knee injury and discuss how medical providers can create a strong treatment plan from day 1 to return to sport.

👉🏻check out for more info on the podcast and to sign up for the symposium

👉🏻Shift Movement Science podcast is one of my favorites to listen to on long car rides: fun chats with all sorts of people in the gymnastics world

👉🏻Shift a symposium is the BEST 3 day course for gymnastics coaches, medical providers, and strength & conditioning coaches
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04/25/2023

REPOST‼️
Check out Shift Movement Science Podcast for a sneak peek on my talk at the 2023 Shift Symposium
June 23-25th
IT’S VIRTUAL 👩‍💻

In the podcast I dig a little deeper into general factors (workload, gym culture, workout structure) that contribute to overuse knee injuries.

For the symposium, I delve deeper into the research on management of each overuse knee injury and discuss how medical providers can create a strong treatment plan from day 1 to return to sport.

👉🏻check out for more info on the podcast and to sign up for the symposium

👉🏻Shift Movement Science podcast is one of my favorites to listen to on long car rides: fun chats with all sorts of people in the gymnastics world

👉🏻Shift a symposium is the BEST 3 day course for gymnastics coaches, medical providers, and strength & conditioning coaches

04/24/2023

REPOST‼️
2023 Shift Symposium
June 23-25th

👉🏻check out for more info and to sign up!

👉🏻the BEST 3 day course for gymnastics coaches, medical providers, and strength & conditioning coaches

👉🏻guess what!? It’s all VIRTUAL 👩‍💻

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04/15/2023

Want some easy ways to add injury prevention exercises into practice ⁉️

I know coaches out there want to do what’s best for their gymnasts, but researching all the information, putting it all together, and executing it can be overwhelming 🙈

Let me help you!‼️

👉🏻Go to my profile

👉🏻Follow my linktree to my website to get my 2023 GymnastCare program.

I love going to gymnastics clubs and hosting “GymnastCare” seminars. I talk about how a gymnast can take care of their body to help perform at their best. I give coaches access to this program and during the seminar we practice the exercises together.

It’s all organized in a PDF that can be printed out and on the computer you can follow the links to YouTube to review how to do each exercise.

These exercises might not be flashy and exciting, but they are simple and effective.

This doesn’t replace a good strength & conditioning program, but it’s all about filling the gaps 💪🏼

With guidance, level 4’s can easily do the program and once higher level gymnasts understand the program they can fly through it on their own before each event during practice.

Let me know what you think!
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04/11/2023

Goal of competing in college gymnastics ⁉️

Let’s go back to the early 2000’s real quick and learn from my story. As a level 5 I learned what college gymnastics was. An eye opener that instead of going elite and setting goals of the Olympics, which I knew I wasn’t, you could compete for a college.

The whole process was so foreign, but I knew making it to Level 10 and Nationals was needed🤷🏼‍♀️

Long story short, I had no clue what college gymnastics consisted of. Social media wasn’t really a thing, I didn’t have easy access to a computer at home, had a flip phone without internet, didn’t have cable to watch gymnastics on ESPN, I never saw a college gymnastics meet until my senior year of high school, and I never talked to a college gymnast about their experience until my official visit at Towson. Club practice was also very chill. Conditioning was mostly bodyweight exercises (leg lifts, hollow hold, dips, plyo jumps over blocks…).

So week 1 at college you could say was overwhelming 👀

College gymnastics had structured practices with assignments, training room for prehab & ice baths, weightlifting, cycling, swim, circuits during practice. Then there was class and required study hall.

So what’s the point of telling you all this?? I want you all to do better and make life easy

Coaches: if your gymnasts have aspirations of being a collegiate gymnast, you must set them up for success. College gymnasts have a comprehensive strength & conditioning program & if gymnasts learn the fundamental movements & start lifting weights (dumbbells, kettlebells, barbells) earlier it won’t be such a shock to the system during this big life change.

Gymnasts/Parents:
👉🏻use the HUGE amount of resources available to you today. College gymnastics consulting services can give you the best info

👉🏻Take care of aches & pains by seeing a physical therapist. Be proactive and go for a wellness visit in person or virtually. Hey I know one 👋

04/08/2023

Tips for competition 🤸🏼‍♀️

We are getting closer to the end of competition season and it’s all in the little details ✨

We can’t forget one of the pillars of GymnastCare
MENTAL HEALTH 🧠

Gymnastics is as much a mental challenge as a physical challenge.

Learning how to quiet your mind before and during a competition doesn’t usually come naturally. You need to figure out works best for YOU.

Positive self talk can be super helpful ‼️

This not only includes using positive phrases like you got this, you’re going to do great, and have fun you’ve worked so hard for this.

Positive self talk can also be used DURING your gymnastics routines. This is called instructional self talk.

This one was a game changer for me as a gymnast who had terrible mental blocks.

At your next gymnastics practice try creating a verbal routine for before each event and for during your beam.

I like to mix instructional and motivational self talk into a beam routine.
Mid routine I like to tell myself, “you’re doing great” and for each pose throughout the routine I give a simple word like “look, look, squeeze” if I had 2 poses followed by jump where I’m reminding myself to squeeze my shoulder blades together to prevent my arms from being uneven out of the side.

These mental skills are applicable to life outside of gymnastics 😁

I’ve used positive self talk before big exams in school, managing nervousness when meeting a new group of people, and hiking some scary trails like angels landing in Zion National Park.
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Theodorakis, Y., Chroni, S., Laparidis, K., Bebetsos, V., & Douma, I. (2001). Self-talk in a basketball-shooting task. Perceptual and motor skills, 92(1), 309-315.

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