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. …
These days my favourite blog post is Gymnastics Examiner’s The gymnastics week in review.
And this week’s edition by Blythe Lawrence is the best yet.
Some highlights and lowlights:
… $1.5 million settlement for gymnastics abuse case: A Chicago-area gymnastics club’s insurance company has agreed to pay $1.5 million in a civil suit against former gymnastics instructor Michael Cardamone, who was first arrested in 2002 …
Gymnastics on skis: Aerial ski coach Peter Judge calls China’s aerialists “unbelievable classic overtrainers.” “I found it astounding — and they were wondering why all their athletes were getting injured and blown up,” ….
… China’s aerial skiiers are poised to win medals next month in Vancouver. One reason is a 19-year-old former gymnast named Xu Mengtao, who Chinese aerial ski coach Dustin Wilson said “will change the sport.” …
Mary Lou Retton interview: The U.S.’s first Olympic gymnastics champion speaks out about the pressure on young athletes to win today, as well as being born with hip dysplasia, a condition that has led her to have hip replacement surgery before the age of 42.
click through for links to these stories and many, many more.
This excellent site is posted by Enrique Trabanino from Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy, Mary Lee Tracy’s gym. He is a former National Team member from El Salvador.
He sells his gymnastics coaching Clinics on DVD for $25 each.
There are some free “teaser” clips on his Videos page. One sample.
Looks great.
There are more free Bar training tutorials on his YouTube Channel. (If you’re a Bar coach, you need to see those. Awesome.)
SUBSCRIBE to Enrique’s channel if you want him to post more video.
GymnasticsReport.net did some detailed research into Women’s College Gymnastics social networking.
Impressive.
This graph is an audit of the social media being used by Gymnastics programs and their Athletic Departments. An x signifies a program is using that form of social media, more than one x indicates more than one instance of the media being used. Feedback, corrections, additions, are certainly appreciated. This information current as of 12-26-09
Click through to see who does what. You can follow your favourite team on Twitter. Or Facebook. Or by RSS feed.
Blythe Lawrence has been posting weekly summaries on Gymnastics Examiner.
I love these.
A few tidbits from the dozens of highlights …
British Gymnastics has hired sports marketing and events agency Fast Track to help it explore how to maximize gymnastics profits and exposure for the 2012 London Olympics and 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
Marketing gymnastics? Who’d a thunk it?
The Cal State Fullerton and UCLA gymnastics teams, with special guests Nastia Liukin and Kyla Ross, held a fundraiser over the weekend to support CSUF Gymnastics, which has to raise its entire $280,000 budget this season. The Cal State Fullerton Daily Titan, the student newspaper at CSUF, reports that Liukin denied having a boyfriend during a Q and A with the Olympic champion. The event raised about $15,000 for the team.
Sacramone told Inside Gymnastics Radio hosts John Roethlisberger and Brian Jones that she was working her way back on vault and beam and hopes to add in floor at some point. But the bigger news was the new skills she intends on throwing: A double twisting front layout and an Amanar on vault.
