Category: physical preparation

backward walkover to backward handspring

Physical and motor preparation for Beam.

Coach Gordon Lam.

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Gordon is a Gymnastics Canada clinician out of Calgary.

His website is EnduranceSport.ca.

using your TOES while climbing

Alisson was the Canadian National Bouldering Champion 2018.

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Thanks Jeff.

improving handstands

Dave Tilley has a very comprehensive program for assessing each gymnast — then prescribing the conditioning to improve physical ability.

The motor component — balance — can be trained separately.

Step one is assess active flexibility:

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Click over to his Common Handstand Problems post for details.

about sleep

Can your athletes get more and better sleep?

It’s important for optimal training, healing, growth & development.

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