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Many gymnasts will relate to this commentary.
For young kids, Gymnastics is fantastic — until the chronic pain from training begins. On average, kids are mostly chronic pain free until about age-10.
After that, competitive Gymnastics is not for everyone. It’s no failure to then switch to any other sport or activity.
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Canada’s Food Guide was updated and released to the general public in January 2019.
Unlike previous food guides’ emphasis on food groups and recommended servings, the 2019 revision from Health Canada recommends eating “plenty of vegetables and fruits, whole grain foods and protein foods.
Choose protein foods that come from plants more often. …
The Dairy lobby lost out as milk is now included in the protein section rather than having it’s own designation.
The U.S. version still includes a Dairy section.
Tom Meadows is one of the top age group men’s coaches in the USA at Cypress.
This is a long listen, but well worth playing in the background, if you can. His daughter is a 14-year-old Level 10 — so he addresses the problems of the American WAG program as well.
Tom feels boys and especially girls slow down to reduce injuries and increase longevity in the sport.
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Highly anticipated, we don’t have much information on the competition.
But we do have the nominative roster (PDF).
Coaches are wondering whether or not we want Juniors to face the pressure and intensity of a World Championships while many are in a rapid growth stage. They are more vulnerable to some injuries than are seniors.
China’s team: Guan Chenchen, Wei Xiaoyuan, Ou Yushan.
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