Gymnasts must be very strong.
When is the best time during the workout to train strength?
“It depends.”
Exactly the answer you did not want to hear.
Coach Chris has a Masters in Kinesiology. He elaborates:
… I would put the strength/conditioning at the beginning of the workout during the off-season as you should be focused on building strength in order to both enhance and enable skill development. To maximize strength development, it’s important for the gymnasts to not be fatigued.
During the season, I would put it at the end of practice. By this time, your training emphasis will have shifted more to technical preparation and trying to make the routines as good as possible for competition. …
Even better with young developing gymnasts, where competition readiness is far less important than training, is …
• specific strength training at the beginning
• general strength training and flexibility improvement, at the end of workout.
That post is from a great new blog called COACHING GYMNASTICS IN THE NEW MILLENIUM
… dedicated to the discussion of training strategies, development, and growth of the sport of artistic gymnastics.
Yup. It’s high level serious content. Coach Chris and Coach Troy Wright answer questions emailed to them via the About page.
Check it out. COACHING GYMNASTICS IN THE NEW MILLENIUM
(via Full Twist)
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Not related, but are there any Canadians going to Hawaii for this weekend’s meet? And is AlohaFest the first “international” comp of 2010?
Some NZ girls my daughter used to train with at TriStar will be there – so go NZ!
Nth Harbour are sending their top girls to WOGA in Feb.
GymnasticsNZ working on their HP plan, I think – yay!
Trials for PacRim are first weekend in Feb. The senior group from my daughters’ RG club (Xtreme) are training hard to qualify to go. It’s awesome to watch them practice, such inspiration for the younger girls.
I don’t see international teams listed on their website:
http://www.kokokahigymnastics.com/aloha.htm
Huh
My sources are this
http://www.nzgymnastics.co.nz/files//competitions_events/internationalevent_form/Aloha_Congrats_Memo.pdf
and one of the gym moms told me last week that the girls were flying out this week.
It’s not really an international competition. More of a club competition, which overseas teams can enter. NZ sends a team because most of the clubs would be to small to enter their own team.
Thanks for the blog link. There’s some excellent stuff here.
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