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Today on the podcast I’m very excited to have on registered dietitian and nutritionist Kerry Bair, who’s been really forward-thinking and outspoken in gymnastics culture to make sure we're giving the best advice on what can we do to fuel kids properly and balance some of these stigmas around body image, weight, and aesthetics. A former gymnast herself she works with gymnasts on a weekly basis who want to learn more about nutrition, food, recovery, and performance. She shares ideas and practical alternative solutions for coaches on how to discuss body image, and where did these cultural myths perpetuate so we can work on them and have healthy conversations around food with athletes.   We DISCUSS; dieting isn’t normal it's just commonplace in our culture.   TOP TIPS for parents who want to address the nutrition conversation to help aid recovery or energy levels in their young athletes.   WHERE’S the line between a coach's responsibility of nutrition and recovery versus what is the parent's role to manage the athlete?   WHAT red flags should you should be aware of in athletes.   HOW to make sure we keep moving forward in the sport, to move on past old school techniques, commenting on body or weight, and have a healthy relationship with food.   Gymnasts are UNIQUE so trying to fit into a box that you're not meant to fit in, is always going to do more harm than good.   ALSO…   WHY you can't fail at nutrition.   RELATED EPISODES: EPISODE 113- THE FOOD AND BODY IMAGE TALK GYMNASTS AND COACHES MUST HEAR WITH CHRISTINA ANDERSON, RDN EPISODE 83 – OVERHAULING GYMNASTICS NUTRITION: 5 UNACCEPTABLE AND DANGEROUS PRACTICES THAT MUST STOP EPISODE 53 – THE NUTRITION AND OVERTRAINING TALK WE NEED TO HAVE, BUT AREN’T EPISODE 39 – WHAT GYMNASTS NEED FOR NUTRITION WITH DR. JOSH ELDRIDGE ENROL NOW! Peak Gymnastics Power Exactly How To Build Explosive Power in Gymnast Now Available for Public Enrollment www.shiftmovementscience.com/pgpcourseWe 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 very excited to bring you a thought-provoking and important conversation about cultural change, morals, and ethics of coaching with Tom Elder. Assistant coach for the University of Pennsylvania and the Temple Men's Team as well as an advisor for full-out recruiting services. In addition to coaching for 13 years, he also has an extensive education in Philosophy. A lot of his research is focused, child autonomy in abuse in youth sports, which is obviously a very important topic that we're dealing with right now in gymnastics.   We DISCUSS what is Ethics and how is it relative to gymnastics?   Gymnastics CRISIS with autonomy.   Four years of being a successful gymnast are NOT worth 40 years of having to take the elevator.   As your morals appropriate and relevant? Where is the boundary line? Are we starting to impose values on children?   The IMPORTANCE of consent.    Is the sport really progressing? Or is it just getting HARDER.   ALSO…   The DIFFERENCE between discipline and obedience.    RELATED EPISODES: EPISODE 111- CHANGING “UNSPOKEN NORMS” IN GYMNASTICS WITH NATALIE BARKER-RUTCHI EPISODE 109 – HOW COACHING STYLES IMPACT PERFORMANCE AND HEALTH IN ATHLETES EPISODE 106 – GYMNAST ALLIANCE AND A CALL FOR CHANGE WITH JENNIFER PINCHES AND CLAIRE HEAFFORD EPISODE 99 – “THE WAY WE’VE ALWAYS DONE IT” – 7 DANGEROUS WORDS IN GYMNASTICS   ENROL NOW! Peak Gymnastics Power Exactly How To Build Explosive Power in Gymnast Now Available for Public Enrollment www.shiftmovementscience.com/pgpcourseWe 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 we have a special bonus episode of the Shift Show. We interviewed former and current coaches and gymnasts as part of our Short Film Series on the future of gymnastic strength conditioning.  With overwhelming scientific support for performance benefits, injury risk reduction, mental/emotional health benefits, and reduced risk of athlete burnout, when properly used it is a tool that could completely revolutionize the sport of gymnastics. Our brand new Peak Gymnastics Power course launched this week and the concepts in this podcast are exactly what we talk about in the course. If you want to learn exactly how I make strength coaching programs for gymnastics, what exercises, how we do them, how many sets and reps, and how to coach proper form to get explosive power out of your gymnasts. Jump on now because on Sunday the price increases and we don’t want you to miss out on being the lucky winner who will receive a free consult with us! ENROL NOW! www.shiftmovementscience.com/pgpcourse   Speakers featured:   Juston Ziegler, Gymnastics Coach Dave Tilley, DPT Lew Porchiazzo, CSCS Nick Ruddock, Gymnastics coach Diwesh Poudyal, CSCS Annemarie Alf, DPT Kylie Gorgenyi, NCAA Gymnast Bridget Sloan, Olympic Gymnast Courtney Kamberalis, NCAA Gymnast Dan Lonsdale, CSCS Heather Gomes, NCAA Gymnast Colin Van Wicklen, Elite Gymnast Scott Willgress, CSCS Emma Winer, NCAA Gymnast Yan Inhaber, NCAA Gymnast Jessica Corneau, Gymnastics Coach Ian Lasic, Elite Gymnast Eva Shute, Gym Owner Steven Gluckstein, Olympic GymnastWe 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 a second quick appearance, due to popular demand, my friend and co-worker from Champion Physical Therapy and Performance Diwesh Poudyal. Head of Strength and Conditioning and Director of Fitness working with athletes every day, single-handedly programming for all the NCAA gymnasts, Division One to Three, and Elite Gymnasts that we work with at our facility and have high level, national team, and Olympic caliber goals. All the way down to athletes who just want to have fun. We're back because the sprinting podcast was super popular and we've been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to develop some resources that people I think are gonna be very excited to learn from and dispelling some of these myths about gymnast lifting weights. We DISCUSS why strength training is SO beneficial and the performance benefits you will get if you sprinkle it into your offseason. At WHAT age should gymnasts start lifting?  WHY having a general fitness base and more movement variability throughout the year helps with injury reduction.  WHAT makes a well-rounded potential athlete? Filling in the gaps of what athletes are not getting in their gymnastics training.  HOW many times should you strength train per week? What goes into a program? What movements do you do? Where do you start!?! Equipment you should INVEST in when starting strength training on a budget. ALSO… HOW to make strength training fun. ENROL NOW! Peak Gymnastics Power Exactly How To Build Explosive Power in Gymnast Now Available for Public Enrollment www.shiftmovementscience.com/pgpcourse RELATED EPISODES: EPISODE 115- THE 3 STEPS FOR BUILDING EXPLOSIVE SPEED AND POWER IN GYMNASTICS EPISODE 105 – THE FUTURE OF GYMNASTICS STRENGTH TRAINING AND OVERCOMING CULTURAL BARRIERS WITH ANNE MARIE ALF EPISODE 98 – BUILDING GYMNASTICS POWER AND SPEED WITH ELLIE BLACK’S STRENGTH COACH, SCOTT WILLGRESS EPISODE 79 – COLIN VAN WICKLEN ON RETURNING TO TRAINING, WEIGHT LIFTING, AND OFF SEASONS IN GYMNASTICSWe 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 very excited to be joined by Lindsey Stancil, a high-level coach in the Pennsylvania area. She's been professional and grateful enough to share some alternative points of view on some pretty controversial and complex topics. Being a higher level coach she has a different perspective to me, a middle-level coach, and medical provider. Lindsey points out there are great coaches out there who are doing an awesome job but are being asked to perform 17 different roles. They're trying to be strength coaches, physiologists, managing recovery, and nutrition.  We DISCUSS training hours, HOW making recommendations or mandates too soon without talking them through can have negative consequences on kid's dreams. ADVICE to coaches: do you know your purpose and is it easy for you to make the right decisions? The importance of making sure you have a strong mission statement for yourself. ‘You're just a coach, when are you going to get a real job’ EVERYTHING that’s wrong with this statement. HOW to train those hard skills to young talented 8, 9, 10-year-olds, teaching pace, technique, and developing skills safely. The PRESSURE of parents. PRACTICAL advice to coaches or parents who are trying to build a better environment and culture in their gym, helping everyone, not just the kids but coaches as well, be happier with their daily work.  ALSO… WHY is a 12-year old deciding yourself worth today? RELATED EPISODES: EPISODE 116- SKILL PROGRESSIONS, MENTAL BLOCKS, AND BUILDING HEALTHY AND HIGH PERFORMING GYMNASTS WITH CALE ROBINSON EPISODE 112- BUILDING GYMNASTICS SKILL BASICS & DRILLS, MOTIVATING ATHLETES, AND HIGH PERFORMING CULTURES WITH BRETT WARGO EPISODE 102 – ADVICE EVERY GYMNASTICS COACH NEEDS TO HEAR ON FLEXIBILITY, GYMNASTS RETIRING, AND MANAGING GOALS EPISODE 93 – NEW MODEL OF GYMNASTICS PART 2: MACRO PRINCIPLESWe 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 am super grateful to be joined by accomplished and noted USA Elite MAG Gymnast John Orozco. We dive into John’s journey and learn from the experiences that he had, as we try to navigate the current culture change. He shares the highs and lows of his career and what he's learned from them, giving advice to the younger generation of coaches, parents, gymnasts that have young athletes in the sport.  We DISCUSS how you develop a young, elite-level athlete without putting extra volume or extra numbers on them.  John’s personal GUIDE to getting through injuries. WHAT your younger self wouldn't admit he needed help with, but your older self wishes you did. The RISKS of rushing back from injury and how to deal with that as an athlete with the pressures to get back out there. The FEAR of re-injury.  WHAT can we do to ensure gymnastics is enjoyable for everyone's experience? ALSO… The FUTURE for John Orozco. ENROL NOW! Gymnastics Medical Guide Bundle https://shiftmovementscience.com/gymnasticsmedicalguides   RELATED EPISODES: EPISODE 87 –  CHELLSIE MEMMEL DISCUSSES HER ELITE COMEBACK, LESSONS LEARNED, AND POSITIVE COACHING PHILOSOPHIES EPISODE 74 – COLIN VAN WICKLEN ON OLYMPICS 2021, TRAINING, NUTRITION, AND RECOVERY EPISODE 59 – BRIDGET SLOAN ON KEEPING YOUNG GYMNASTS HEALTHY, NCAA/OLYMPIC SUCCESS, AND CROSSFIT EPISODE 34 – JON HORTON ON THE FUTURE OF MEN’S GYMNASTICS AND DEVELOPING HIGH LEVEL ATHLETESWe 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/

Mike Reiman on Hip Dysplasia/Microinstability Injuries and Finding Success as a Clinician Today on the podcast I geek out with Duke faculty member & physical therapy researcher, Mike Reinman. One of the most stressful areas for clinicians & coaches is hip injuries, hypermobile, loose gymnast hips. Mike is doing phenomenal work putting out great information on hip dysplasia. We dive into this as it's often not talked about. But there’s a lot of great research now which means better tools to understand how to help athletes.  We DISCUSS why you should be hanging out with surgeons if you want to work with hips. The DIFFERENCE between Hip dysplasia and or instability. The IMPORTANCE of mentorship, what it really is, and how to approach someone. DECIPHERING protocols for hip surgeries. HOW somebody can be stiff and loose at the same time. Mike explains THE EPIC RETURN - what to do early on to help with symptoms or build strength. ALSO… Mike’s top ADVICE for new grads. ENROL NOW! Gymnastics Medical Guide Bundle https://shiftmovementscience.com/gymnasticsmedicalguides RELATED EPISODES: EPISODE 91 – WHY WE NEED TO TAKE CONCUSSIONS MORE SERIOUSLY IN GYMNASTICS EPISODE 90 – MY MENTAL HEALTH JOURNEY AND ADVICE NEW GRADS NEED TO HEAR EPISODE 71 – KEYS TO HELPING ATHLETES WITH SHOULDER INJURIES AND REHABILITATION EPISODE 61 – COMBATTING ACHILLES TEARS IN NCAA GYMNASTICS (PART 1)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 had a great chat with Rebecca Smith who asked me to come on an Instagram Live and talk about, creating cultures where people can feel safe and progression towards high-level goals.  What we're looking at in terms of evolving the culture around competitions and what valuable life lesson are we trying to teach kids, pulling away from ‘it’s only about scores, medals and placements’ and ‘the highlights on Facebook or Instagram. We DISCUSS the type of culture that allows athletes to be happy and successful. Is it RIGHT that gyms send out level eights to compete at level five? Is winning at all costs worth it? If you're EXPECTING that success will bring you happiness, then it never will. The VALUE of supportive parents and coaches that are unconditional. HOW to help kids communicate, develop a voice and empower them. The IMPORTANCE of choice and consent. ALSO… HOW our actions create consequences?  ENROL NOW! Gymnastics Medical Guide Bundle https://shiftmovementscience.com/gymnasticsmedicalguides RELATED EPISODES: EPISODE 117- GYMNASTICS CANADA HOSTS CULTURE AND COACHING DEVELOPMENT WEBINAR WITH GRETCHEN KERR AND DAVE TILLEY EPISODE 114- THE GYMNASTICS PARENTS EPISODE: HANDLING CONFLICTS, REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS, AND SETTING BOUNDARIES EPISODE 104 – HOW TO BUILD A NEW APPROACH TO GYMNASTICS – AN INTERVIEW WITH RYAN ZIESLOFT EPISODE 92 – NEW MODEL OF GYMNASTICS PART 1: GLOBAL VALUES  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/

In this week's podcast, I was excited to chat with another member of the Ascend Gymnastics Team. With Elite and NCAA success, Sarah Korngold has achieved this with her nurturing and progressive philosophy. She shares her fantastic knowledge of Beam a subject that we’ve not covered before on the podcast; giving an insight into her lower-level development program and what drills and exercises to do. We DISCUSS the culture of her gym and WHAT they do to be successful. HOW to deal with kids that are not motivated and help them progress. Sarah’s thoughts on the College recruiting problem and HOW she is talking to parents about it.  HOW to find a balance between high-level aspirations and goals at a young age and training hours, safety, health, and long-term wellness. WHAT foundations and basics you need to do at the lower levels to be successful on beam. Sarah’s thoughts and drills for beam flexibility. ALSO… FEARS and mental blocks, what to do to help overcome them. ENROL NOW! Gymnastics Medical Guide Bundle https://shiftmovementscience.com/gymnasticsmedicalguides RELATED EPISODES: EPISODE 116- SKILL PROGRESSIONS, MENTAL BLOCKS, AND BUILDING HEALTHY AND HIGH PERFORMING GYMNASTS WITH CALE ROBINSON EPISODE 112- BUILDING GYMNASTICS SKILL BASICS & DRILLS, MOTIVATING ATHLETES, AND HIGH PERFORMING CULTURES WITH BRETT WARGO EPISODE 100 – AIMEE BOORMAN ON COACHING SIMONE BILES AND CHANGING GYMNASTICS CULTURE EPISODE 87 –  CHELLSIE MEMMEL DISCUSSES HER ELITE COMEBACK, LESSONS LEARNED, AND POSITIVE COACHING PHILOSOPHIESWe 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 build a strength program for gymnast in 2021 from scratch?  With overwhelming amount of information on the internet, on gymnasts lifting weights, or knowing how many days, reps, sets or even which exercises to do. It can be stressful for coaches to know where to start. So I enlisted the help of my good friends Dan Lonsdale and Nick Ruddock to combined our brains and literally build a strength program from scratch! We discuss WHAT what we would do in 4-5 training sessions, the exercises, the set and reps. WHEN to program light days or heavy days. The IMPORTANCE of core work.  Dan illustrates the BEST way to increase strength using proper general conditioning and weight room stuff. WHAT gymnastic specific floor lines, active flex and handstands/body alignment exercises to do. Nick explains his Daily Dozen. ALSO… HOW to apply our program to those who train three days per week. Check out the blog post which has FREE downloadable templates of our strength program, blank templates, along with some extra recourses myself, Dan and Nick put together to help build your own strength program. Watch on YouTube to see us sharing the screen, writing down the exact things that we would do along with videos of the exercises.  This information is so important, it’ll increase your athletes performance and reduce the risk of injury. This is the future of gymnastics moving forward, so the more people we can get on board the better healthier athletes we can have. ENROL NOW! Gymnastics Medical Guide Bundle https://shiftmovementscience.com/gymnasticsmedicalguides RELATED EPISODES: EPISODE 107 – HOW TO TRAIN HARDER AND SMARTER USING WORKLOADS WITH TIM GABBETT AND SCOTT WILLGRESS EPISODE 84 – MY EXACT 3 MONTH STRENGTH PROGRAM FOR POST COVID GYMNASTICS + FULL LECTURE EPISODE 72 – FREE ONLINE GYMNASTICS CLINIC AND GYMNASTICS WORKLOADS/WELLNESS INTERVIEW EPISODE 29 – HOW TO INCREASE POWER WITH DAN LONSDALE EPISODE 21 – BUILDING “NEW SCHOOL” STRENGTH PROGRAMS FOR GYMNASTSWe 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/