Gymnastics HQ ran a little survey of American Gyms to see where they are at at this stage. Click through to see results.
HOW GYM LIFE HAS CHANGED DURING THE PANDEMIC: SURVEY RESULTS
Gymnastics during the pandemic
Category: planning
10,000 hour rule STILL debunked
Anders Ericsson studied musicians, finding most of the best had spent 10 years and at least 10,000 hours of dedicated practice to reach their peak.
Subsequently, authors found support for this theory by collecting data about highly professional mathematicians and from chess and tennis.
The rule was eventually debunked.
If I had practiced basketball for 10,000 hours, for example, I wouldn’t have made the NBA. 😀
Correlation is not causation.
Vladimir B. Issurin in 2017 published a summary finding that athletes from endurance, power, and combat sports attained world-class status following 4–7 years of specialized preparation with 3000–7000 cumulative hours of purposeful training.
Those athletes had genetic potential, of course.
Read the full article:
Evidence-Based Prerequisites and Precursors of Athletic Talent: A Review
Ellie Black – general conditioning
Ellie has a super detailed training plan. It’s worth watching everything she does.
#smart
Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.
Training for Club Owners / Managers
Zander Arthur is offering an online course.
Good timing as we reinvent our Gyms following COVID-19 lockdown.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Details here. $349
related – Metzger’s Boot Camp costs about $2199 but is not being offered right now due to COVID.
Sam’s 1st week back
Samuel Mikulak is posting video each week.
Episode 1 includes his weekly training plan.
Despite the long break, his wrist are still bad.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Gymnastics – optimal number of training hours
All coaches agree there’s never enough time to include everything they want in any training plan.
We need to set priorities.
And not waste time.
GAGE is one club I’d highlight as having very efficient training.
I’m hopeful that COVID-19 reset results in many Gyms reducing training hours. Setting more modest, achievable goals. Goals less performance / ranking based, more personal development.
Injuries reduce the number of effective training hours. Fewer injuries over the career = more effective hours.
… but to answer the question, I’ve always admired Shawn Johnson’s plan. She trained maximum 24 hours / week during High School with one training / day. And became the best gymnast in the world.
If your goal is not to become one of the best gymnasts in the world, training hours should be fewer than 24 / week.
Aimee posted Simone’s hours on Twitter.
Keith Russell often talks about finding the best coach / hour.
With less training time, less equipment, who’s the best coach?
Click over to Facebook to see Dave Tilley’s opinion.
new book – Women’s Artistic Gymnastics
Socio-cultural Perspectives
Published April 22, 2020
Edited by Roslyn Kerr, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Carly Stewart, and Gretchen Kerr.
This book lifts the lid on the high pressured, complex world of women’s artistic gymnastics. By adopting a socio-cultural lens incorporating historical, sociological and psychological perspectives, it takes the reader through the story and workings of women’s artistic gymnastics.
Beginning with its early history as a ‘feminine appropriate’ sport, the book follows the sport through its transition to a modern sports form. Including global cases and innovative narrative methods, it explores the way gymnasts have experienced its intense challenges, the complexities of the coach-athlete relationship, and how others involved in the sport, such as parents and medical personnel, have contributed to the reproduction of a highly demanding and potentially abusive sporting culture.
With the focus on a unique women’s sport, the book is an important read for researchers and students studying sport sociology, sport coaching, and physical education, but it is also a valuable resource for anyone interested in the development of sporting talent.
It’s available through Amazon.com.
Professor Barker-Ruchti contends that coaches should plan for Gymnastics peak performance as adults, rather than trying to teach as much difficulty as possible when girls are small:
Gym is not child’s play: study
Kin Gymnastics, Calgary
On invitation of Judy Howard-Holmes, I dropped by to see the Kin Gymnastics facility, Calgary’s newest club.
Judy coached 1992 Canadian Olympian Jennifer Wood.
Training re-started at Kin June 15th. The top girls had worked back up to 4 hours / day summer training by the end of July.
The Gym itself is being redesigned post the COVID-19 break for more advanced kids, fewer Recreation. That’s likely to be membership reality in the near term.
KIN.
(noun) clan. tribe. family.
Click PLAY or watch a 2018 promotion video on YouTube.
10 ideas to improve U.S. Gymnastics
Many of these apply to other nations, as well.
$1. Excellent coach education
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Denmark won’t host 2021 Worlds
FIG will search for a new host.
The Danish Gymnastics Federation has informed the FIG of its withdrawal from hosting the 50th World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, due to be held in Copenhagen in October 2021. …
Also, the next #FIG Congress, originally scheduled to take place in Antalya, Turkey from 23 to 25 October 2020, is postponed a year.
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