Category: physical preparation

Pommels – pendular swing conditioning

Active flexibility.

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FORM conditioning

If you want young gymnasts to keep form during their routines, stretch and condition the specific muscles needed.

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to IMPROVE performance, get better sleep

Christie Aschwanden wrote a book on recovery. She concluded that improving sleep is the best way to enhance recovery from training.

Nick Ruddock interviewed Nick Littlehales, a sport sleep coach. He literally wrote the book on sleep.

Learn more …

sportsleepcoach.com

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Michaela DePrince – ballet dancer

Michaela DePrince is a Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer.

With her adoptive mother, Elaine DePrince, Michaela authored the book Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina.

Giulia Steingruber legs

Giulia Steingruber is back from injury. And her legs are as strong as ever.

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https://twitter.com/i/status/1180522402620563456

 

practicing Gymnastics shapes

If you can’t do the stationary positions correctly, there’s not much chance you’ll move into-and-out-of those positions well.

See many more Gymnastics shapes.

Dave Tilley on Flexibility

Dave put everything together in one place — looking at Flexibility from a medical perspective.

It’s long.

Get a hot drink and click over to Shift Movement Science to peruse.