Tonight we’ll see if Georgia can rebound from a poor performance last weekend.
Arguably the biggest rivalry in collegiate gymnastics, the Alabama-Georgia dynamic has changed a bit this year, with long-time UGA head coach Suzanne Yoculan retiring at the end of last season and Jay Clark, a 17-year veteran of the Bulldog staff, taking over the reins of the program. Despite the change, Alabama head coach Sarah Patterson doesn’t expect much to change in terms of the Bulldog team.
“As Jay says, he’s not wearing heels and a skirt, but I don’t think their blueprint changes that much, especially when you have that kind of success,” Patterson said. “I feel the program is in great hands and I really don’t feel like they’ll skip a beat this season. They were preseason ranked No. 1 for a reason.”
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. …
We’re often linking to strength videos posted by men’s coach Christopher Sommer from Arizona.
He’s one of the preeminent strength gurus in our sport.
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… Extremely comprehensive and detailed, with nearly 200 exercises (many of which have never been seen before by the general public) and well over 500 photographs, it is a complete developmental template for building the essential foundation of strength required for all gymnastics success. Whether you are a competitive athlete looking for an edge, a fitness enthusiast or just beginning a healthier lifestyle, Building the Gymnastic Body is the answer …
A small statistical analysis from IG forum posted by spezi3. In brackets are the number of mentions of each athlete on that site vis-a-vis each apparatus.
BEAM
1. Yang Bo (21) – video
2. Tatiana Lysenko (14)
3. Olga Mostepanova (10)
4. Kui Yuanyuan (10)
5. Oksana Omelianchik (10)
6. Shannon Miller (10)
7. Nastia Luikin (10)
8. Aurelia Dobre (9)
9. Li Li (9)
10. Mo Huilan (9)
11. Catalina Ponor (9)
The results show that after 20 years, Yang Bo’s beam work is timeless. There was the biggest difference between the number of votes between 1st and 2nd place on any of the events.
Ha. Oksana Omelianchik, one of the weakest tumblers ever put on the Floor by the old Soviet Union, is #1 on Floor.
I was there in 1985 when she was co-World Champion with Shushanova. This routine was shocking and revolutionary in many ways at that time. The talk of the competition.
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