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conditioning with sliders

February 5th, 2013 | physical preparation

John Smith at NASA Gymnastics, Washington.

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details on those sliders

4 comments ↓

#1 Anonymous on 02.05.13 at 7:56 am

Some of those are good ideas, others are injury magnets and not safe (toe crunching, split arm drill). Just saying.

#2 sivado on 02.05.13 at 10:06 am

Great idea, safe and good for young gymnasts

#3 Coach S on 02.05.13 at 10:29 am

Some great stuff, but I didn’t see the benefit of the split arm exercise.

#4 TippingCows on 02.06.13 at 11:23 pm

The split arm exercises make sense to me for some bars turns/pirouettes.
As for the toe”crunching”, if the feet aren’t in correct position those sliders won’t slide, so that kind of takes care of itself.
They look like good solid exercises to me; actually we do a lot of those with paper plates, but the partner exercises would be both fun and challenging for the kids. Plus, if partner A is not tight and in good shape, partner b is not going to get them across the floor and so their teammates will start holding them accountable for doing it right, which is helpful.

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