The SHIFT Show

Today we are continuing the popular series of Q&As, answering community questions about flexibility. I explain how I implement the Shift content I put out and how it can be used in a practical setting when you’re working with different ages and abilities, large groups, and small workspaces. I used this opportunity to really answer some tough questions and give people practical advice, so you can literally listen to the podcast, drive to the gym and implement the same exact stuff right away a practice.We appreciate you listening! To learn more about SHIFT, head here - https://shiftmovementscience.com/To learn about SHIFT's courses, check our website here - https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Also, please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing the podcast with your friends! Thanks :)Thanks for listening to The SHIFT Show! Check out SHIFT's most popular courses here! https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Want to join our online educational community of over 1000 gymnastics professionals and get 40+ hours of gymnastics lectures? Join The Hero Lab below!https://shiftmovementscience.com/theherolab/ Check out all our past podcast episodes here!https://shiftmovementscience.com/podcast/

Are you having problems with your handstand?    We can help you solve them in this mini-podcast episode!We appreciate you listening! To learn more about SHIFT, head here - https://shiftmovementscience.com/To learn about SHIFT's courses, check our website here - https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Also, please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing the podcast with your friends! Thanks :)Thanks for listening to The SHIFT Show! Check out SHIFT's most popular courses here! https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Want to join our online educational community of over 1000 gymnastics professionals and get 40+ hours of gymnastics lectures? Join The Hero Lab below!https://shiftmovementscience.com/theherolab/ Check out all our past podcast episodes here!https://shiftmovementscience.com/podcast/

This week on the podcast, we finally dive into a highly requested topic that is; Compulsories and Excel gymnastics. My guest today is Victoria Cunningham, who owns Flight Athletics Academy in Tennessee, and we talk about these programs, the common issues, and how she’s overcome them. She also puts out great YouTube content of her compulsory and lower levels gymnasts drills and physical preparation, breaking down exactly why she does what she does. I really think people are going to love this episode, so please do me a massive favor and support Victoria by checking out her YouTube channel, which I know everyone can learn from:   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaGtKIUtpKXhrWD1FbIhNvA   We DISCUSS; what is the foundation of gymnastics and how to build it successfully.   The ESSENTIAL things you need to cover every gymnastics session no matter how many hours you train.   EASY ways to teach body tension and handstands to beginner gymnasts.   HOW to effectively plan your time with limited hours in the gym.   ALSO…   HOW to spot athletes when they're really tall compared to you or don't do a lot of hours in the gym to do physical preparation to get all the flexibility and strength they need to develop skills.We appreciate you listening! To learn more about SHIFT, head here - https://shiftmovementscience.com/To learn about SHIFT's courses, check our website here - https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Also, please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing the podcast with your friends! Thanks :)Thanks for listening to The SHIFT Show! Check out SHIFT's most popular courses here! https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Want to join our online educational community of over 1000 gymnastics professionals and get 40+ hours of gymnastics lectures? Join The Hero Lab below!https://shiftmovementscience.com/theherolab/ Check out all our past podcast episodes here!https://shiftmovementscience.com/podcast/

This is one of our most requested topics from our audience.  Issues with overhead, shoulder flexibility can limit gymnasts from making progress or doing skills they want to do. In this mini-podcast episode, Dave breaks down exactly how to screen for issues and also explains the best exercises and soft tissue care, to help improve overhead shoulder flexibility. We appreciate you listening! To learn more about SHIFT, head here - https://shiftmovementscience.com/To learn about SHIFT's courses, check our website here - https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Also, please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing the podcast with your friends! Thanks :)Thanks for listening to The SHIFT Show! Check out SHIFT's most popular courses here! https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Want to join our online educational community of over 1000 gymnastics professionals and get 40+ hours of gymnastics lectures? Join The Hero Lab below!https://shiftmovementscience.com/theherolab/ Check out all our past podcast episodes here!https://shiftmovementscience.com/podcast/

Today on the podcast we are continuing the popular series of the Q&A's, answering people's questions directly from the community.  In this episode, we're going to dive into injuries. I get a ton of questions from parents, coaches, medical providers, asking about different gymnastics injuries. I took five of the most popular questions that I had received that come up a lot from different people and tried to go through them and give my best advice. This particular episode is going to answer a lot of people's questions that they have about prehab and back injuries, shoulder injuries, and return to sport.   I ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS:   Josh asks: Many of the boys that I coach are starting to get shoulder problems, two have been diagnosed with labral tears in their shoulder, what prehab exercises can I do to prevent this?    Amy asks: My daughter is 12 years old and is starting to complain about lower back pain when she tumbles or does beam back walkovers. She's also working a lot of yurchenko’s and back handsprings on beam for her series and thinks that is where it started, what can we do about it?   Anonymous asked: I'm a medical provider working in the NCAA and Achilles injuries, including Achilles tears continued to be a huge problem for our team. Given your experiences and the new research projects, you guys have put out what should we be doing to help reduce this risk?   James asks: I'm a PT who is working with a lot of gymnasts, and all of them seem to struggle with knee or ankle-related pain during landings. What can we do as medical providers to help this out? I feel like as soon as the rest and are getting better, two months later, they are back in my office with the same type of pain.   ALSO…   Kara asks: What is your process for getting a gymnast safely back to training, there isn't any great literature on return to sport guidelines? And it's really overwhelming to do as an athletic trainer working with gymnasts.We appreciate you listening! To learn more about SHIFT, head here - https://shiftmovementscience.com/To learn about SHIFT's courses, check our website here - https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Also, please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing the podcast with your friends! Thanks :)Thanks for listening to The SHIFT Show! Check out SHIFT's most popular courses here! https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Want to join our online educational community of over 1000 gymnastics professionals and get 40+ hours of gymnastics lectures? Join The Hero Lab below!https://shiftmovementscience.com/theherolab/ Check out all our past podcast episodes here!https://shiftmovementscience.com/podcast/

It is extremely challenging to change a gym's culture.    Often times traditions, old-school techniques, or generational information continues to be set in stone, and it feels like an uphill battle.   But, it is worth the work to make sure, that the gymnasts, coaches, and parents are all happy, healthy, and high-performing.   In this mini-podcast episode, Dave breaks down some of the most common ways to improve gyms culture, including what he did at his facility over the course of five years, to make real progress.We appreciate you listening! To learn more about SHIFT, head here - https://shiftmovementscience.com/To learn about SHIFT's courses, check our website here - https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Also, please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing the podcast with your friends! Thanks :)Thanks for listening to The SHIFT Show! Check out SHIFT's most popular courses here! https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Want to join our online educational community of over 1000 gymnastics professionals and get 40+ hours of gymnastics lectures? Join The Hero Lab below!https://shiftmovementscience.com/theherolab/ Check out all our past podcast episodes here!https://shiftmovementscience.com/podcast/

Today on the podcast, we are launching a very exciting and very special series that I've wanted to do for a long time. A Q&A series answering people's questions directly from the community. We had a ton of questions and we put them all together and categorized them into four categories:   Strength and conditioning  Injuries Flexibility Culture   Each one of these podcasts is 30 minutes and I’ll be answering five of the most common and biggest topic questions that all people in the gymnastics community have asked. So the first one today is all about strength conditioning, warm-ups, programming, doing some in-season versus offseason management, talking a lot about what exercises I like how to get gymnasts strong and powerful.     I ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS:   Kim asks: I’m a huge fan of your strength and ideas and philosophy. But it seems to be more focused on optional gymnast who are in the gym 20 plus hours per week, how can I use it with my lower level gymnast who only trains six hours per week?    Sarah asks: How do I keep gymnasts motivated to do strength, conditioning, and basics? And how do I deal with complaints that it's too boring or it's too hard and not putting in any effort?   Arlene asks: What is your opinion on general gymnastic strength testing versus functional testing?   Em asks: How do you get stronger and more consistent tumbling in athletes?   ALSO…   Mark asks: How does your approach to season change in cardio change out of season versus pre-season versus in season?We appreciate you listening! To learn more about SHIFT, head here - https://shiftmovementscience.com/To learn about SHIFT's courses, check our website here - https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Also, please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing the podcast with your friends! Thanks :)Thanks for listening to The SHIFT Show! Check out SHIFT's most popular courses here! https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Want to join our online educational community of over 1000 gymnastics professionals and get 40+ hours of gymnastics lectures? Join The Hero Lab below!https://shiftmovementscience.com/theherolab/ Check out all our past podcast episodes here!https://shiftmovementscience.com/podcast/

"How do you get back to high-impact sports, after an injury?" We get this question all the time, and recently one of our community members wanted to know if we could make a video on, return to impact progressions.    It can be really stressful not knowing how long it will take, what exercises to do if soreness is normal, and how things change based on growth plates vs tendons vs muscular injuries.    In this mini-podcast, Dave breaks down exactly how he makes these programs from scratch and answers all of these questions.We appreciate you listening! To learn more about SHIFT, head here - https://shiftmovementscience.com/To learn about SHIFT's courses, check our website here - https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Also, please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing the podcast with your friends! Thanks :)Thanks for listening to The SHIFT Show! Check out SHIFT's most popular courses here! https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Want to join our online educational community of over 1000 gymnastics professionals and get 40+ hours of gymnastics lectures? Join The Hero Lab below!https://shiftmovementscience.com/theherolab/ Check out all our past podcast episodes here!https://shiftmovementscience.com/podcast/

Today on the podcast, I'm extremely excited to bring you part two of my conversation with Medicine Redefined hosts Dr. Altamash and Dr. Darsh in which we have a fantastic discussion on the medical side of things.   Anyone who is a physical therapist, athletic trainer, medical doctor, you really need to hear this conversation because we have a great talk around how to have a better quality of care for athletes, and making sure that healthcare providers are happy with their jobs in the process.    We talked quite a bit about the communication between physicians and medical or rehab providers on the other side of surgery or rehab diagnostics, we also dive quite a bit into lower back pain and how to unpack that because sometimes it's a pretty frustrating and challenging thing to deal with.    Discussing return to sports and how we can foster a better pathway back into some of the more high-level stuff that a lot of people struggle with.    And we delve into how can we create a better overall medical system with better quality of care for patients and athletes to make sure that we're not just getting stuck in a rut of just going through the motions and feeling burnt out or frustrated.   That we're actually delivering really high quality of care.    A really great discussion here which I enjoyed talking with them about this, so do me a huge favor and head on over to their podcast after you listen to this because they have phenomenal discussions with great physicians and medical providers about some really hot topics that are going on.We appreciate you listening! To learn more about SHIFT, head here - https://shiftmovementscience.com/To learn about SHIFT's courses, check our website here - https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Also, please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing the podcast with your friends! Thanks :)Thanks for listening to The SHIFT Show! Check out SHIFT's most popular courses here! https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Want to join our online educational community of over 1000 gymnastics professionals and get 40+ hours of gymnastics lectures? Join The Hero Lab below!https://shiftmovementscience.com/theherolab/ Check out all our past podcast episodes here!https://shiftmovementscience.com/podcast/

Today we are answering a great fan-submitted question, on ways to progress exercises without just adding weight.    This person told us they are working out at home primarily, and when they try to increase weight during strength exercises, their knees and back get sore.    In this mini-podcast episode, we are going to break down 6 ways to progress or switch up exercises to keep making progress, that don't require stacking on more weight. We appreciate you listening! To learn more about SHIFT, head here - https://shiftmovementscience.com/To learn about SHIFT's courses, check our website here - https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Also, please consider rating, reviewing, and sharing the podcast with your friends! Thanks :)Thanks for listening to The SHIFT Show! Check out SHIFT's most popular courses here! https://courses.shiftmovementscience.com/Want to join our online educational community of over 1000 gymnastics professionals and get 40+ hours of gymnastics lectures? Join The Hero Lab below!https://shiftmovementscience.com/theherolab/ Check out all our past podcast episodes here!https://shiftmovementscience.com/podcast/