The SHIFT Show

In today’s episode of The Shift Show, I welcome Luke Carson, a men's gymnastics coach with a wealth of experience in positive, uplifting coaching techniques. A former gymnast himself, Luke is personal coach to Rhys McClenaghan World, European, and Commonwealth pommel horse champion.The conversation center’s around the evolving coaching styles and culture in gymnastics and the move away from authoritarian, fear-based coaching methods. Luke and I talk about how this shift is important for creating a positive and healthy environment for athletes, where the focus is on achieving high performance while also prioritizing athlete health and well-being.One of the key takeaways from the discussion is how to deal with disappointment in a healthy and productive way, and how to achieve motivation, skill, progress, work ethic, and commitment to goals in a positive and uplifting manner. It's a must-listen episode for coaches, parents, and anyone interested in the future of gymnastics.Luke’s experience and expertise in coaching pommel horse and men's gymnastics make him a valuable addition to the 2023 Shifts Symposium which promises to be a must-see for anyone looking to improve their coaching techniques.He will be presenting a lecture on Advance Pommel Elements.We discuss:Building character through adversity. The importance of building trust with your athletes. When you understand yourself, that's when wisdom begins.Having an internal source of self-esteem that doesn't depend on an athlete's performance.Don’t be controlled by time. How to change your mindset.Motivation and how to overcome resistance. How to deal with external variables. And…Letting go of the things that are out of your control.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's mini-podcast episode is a sneak peek of one of last year's Shift Symposium guest lectures, Beam Ideas; Active flexibility and building series.Presented by Sarah Korngold, member of the Ascend Gymnastics Team and coach to Shilese Jones 3X World Medalist.If you want to hear the rest of this lecture you can access it on the Shift website:https://shiftmovementscience.com/2022shiftsymposium/The 2023 Shift Symposium runs from Friday, June 23rd - Sunday, June 25th, where you can learn everything you need to know about Gymnastics Medical Care, Gymnastics Coaching, and Gymnastic Strength and Conditioning.The lineup of 30 speakers is ridiculous, giving incredible lectures over three days, so don’t miss out! Head over to:https://shiftmovementscience.com/2023shiftsymposium/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 marks a special milestone for The Shift Show, as it is our 200th episode! This is truly a moment to celebrate and reflect on all the amazing work we have done to help gymnasts change their lives.When I first started this podcast back in the summer of 2018, it was simply a hodgepodge of lectures and ideas put together with the goal of providing valuable information to the gymnastics community. Without you, the listeners, The Shift Show would not be what it is today. Your support and dedication is truly appreciated, and I am grateful for your time and attention.In addition to the support from the gymnastics community, I also have to thank my incredible team. Becky, in particular, does a fantastic job of handling the podcast, social media, and back-end work to make sure the show runs smoothly week after week. I am also grateful for Taylor, who helps with analytics and surveys to make sure we are always providing relevant and valuable content to our audience.The main goal of The Shift Show has always been to provide information that can make a significant impact on someone's life and help improve their experience in the sport of gymnastics. Whether it is through technique, mental blocks, or simply learning from the experiences of others, I hope that this podcast has been able to serve as a valuable resource for gymnasts, athletes, family members, and friends.To celebrate this special 200th episode, we hosted a live Q&A with experts Nick Ruddock, Victoria Cunningham, Pat Redfern, and Lindsey Stancil. We invited listeners to join us on Zoom and ask whatever questions they wanted, and it was a fantastic discussion!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's mini-podcast episode is the announcement of the first 2023 Shift Symposium guest speakers, Nick Ruddock from Great Britain.Nick is a high-performance consultant who has worked with over 22 nations around the world from club all the way up to the Olympic level.Nick will be presenting on Day 2 of the Symposium, sharing his fantastic knowledge of Bars with two lectures. Discussing everything you need to know about circle skills & inbar elements, giants & dismounts.Today’s mini podcast episode is a sneak peek of his Symposium lecture from last year's event on the 6 Pillars of Acrobatics.If you want to hear the rest of this lecture you can access it on the Shift website:https://shiftmovementscience.com/2022shiftsymposium/The 2023 Shift Symposium runs from Friday, June 23rd - Sunday, June 25th, where you can learn everything you need to know about Gymnastics Medical Care, Gymnastics Coaching, and Gymnastic Strength and Conditioning.The lineup of 30 speakers is ridiculous, giving incredible lectures over three days, so don’t miss out! Head over to:https://shiftmovementscience.com/2023shiftsymposium/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 have a fan favorite, my good buddy, Nick Ruddock is back on the show, and holy moly, are people gonna want to listen to this episode.Former British Junior National Coach, Nick is now a high-performance consultant who has worked with over 22 nations around the world from club all the way up to the Olympic level.I always love picking Nick's brain as he is a wealth of gymnastic technical knowledge.  Today we focus specifically on bars which is the apparatus people really struggle with because of how unique it is compared to the other events.Nick has created a fantastic system that works through basic principles for coaches to think about when teaching skills bars.As well as this he has phenomenal drills and a way to translate drills into successful skills. We discuss:Why stripping away a program is as good as adding things in.5 principles you need to teach fantastic bars.How to master a perfect swing on bars.The fastest way to improve bars.Nicks's top tips to get your kip.The secret to mastering giants. What is best, a straight body or a straddle giant?Should you tap over the bar? And…How to build confident dismounts.We are also excited to announce that we will be hosting our second Shift Symposium in June, after last year's successful Symposium we can’t wait to bring you 3 Separate Days of Gymnastics Medical, Gymnastics Coaching (split WAG and MAG tracks), and Gymnastics Strength & Conditioning information. That's over 30 Hours of Gymnastics Lectures and live Q&As From Expert Speakers.We will be revealing our expert speakers once a week and if you haven’t guessed already, Nick Ruddock is our first Expert Speaker giving two bar lectures on circle skills & inbar elements and giants & dismounts.For more information check out the website:www.shiftmovementscience.com/23shiftsymposiumWe 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 weeks mini podcast episode, is a sneak peak of our brand new Herolab guest lecture: Daily Gymnastics Specific Conditioning, which was released this week.This month guest lecturer is Taylor Townsend part of The Shift Movement Science Team is Head Floor and Beam coach at a gymnastics club in North Carolina working with Pre-Team through to Level 10.In this episode Taylor covers:Building Gymnastics Strength Through ConsistencyProgressions and Regression PDF for 8 Key Exercises4 Different Types of ConditioningPrintable Tracker for individual conditioningIf you would like to have access to the full Daily Gymnastics Specific Conditioning lecture,PDFs, and videos of exercises head over to the Herolab. https://shiftmovementscience.com/theherolab/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 bringing you an exclusive behind-the-scenes peek of a lecture I gave to the students at Champion Physical Therapy and Performance.The place I work and see patients, giving you an inside look into how I treat people for back pain.We've done a lot of more general episodes lately on culture, techniques, and gymnastics general ideas, so I want to do an episode for medical providers, athletic trainers, physical therapists, doctors, and chiropractors, who deal with a lot of gymnastics back pain, but they're a little overwhelmed on how to evaluate this, how to treat this, and how to safely get somebody back to the sport.Unfortunately, sometimes people rest from sport and as soon as they go back, they feel their pain coming back again which is really frustrating.It's definitely more on the medical, dorky side for a reason but hopefully coaches trying to learn more can pick up some of those ideas too as well.I talk about some of the evaluation concepts that are super important, including knowing what things make someone's back worse, and what things make someone's back better.I also go over exercises to help somebody in those first few weeks after an injury and the progressions of those exercises to eventually get back to sport.I discuss:Evaluating and treating low back pain.Bilateral stress fractures vs. bilateral stress fractures.Flexion intolerance vs. compression intolerance.Three layers of testing for inclusion criteria.Treating disc bulges and sciaticaHow to make patients feel better.Core exercisesGetting back to advanced training.And…Power and medball work for sports-specific rehabWe 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’s episode of the Shift Show, is some quick tips for coaches, athletes, and parents for the upcoming competitive season. This is a quick episode packed full of beneficial information for busy coaches, that you can listen to on your way to work.From traveling and consulting with experts in the gymnastics world I have collected a breadth of knowledge which I have broken down into 5 simple tips to navigate in-season and get the best possible results.I discuss:Practical tips to maximize performance. How to optimize sleep quality and quantity. Time management skills. Nutrition tips for athletes. Why you should never neglect the basics during In-season.Maintenance of strength and conditioning. The importance of high-quality focused and reflective turns. How to train to compete well. And…Bonus tip to maximize meet and routine performance.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's podcast I was asked to go on Brett Scott's podcast who owns and runs Barbell Therapy and Performance which specializes in rehabbing and coaching athletes to perform at their highest abilities. They offer physical therapy and recovery services, personal training, and performance coaching for barbel athletes and gymnasts.We have a great conversation about positive changes that have happened in gymnastics, but also things that coaches, gymnasts, and medical providers are still struggling with. Such as how many hours should young gymnasts train, gymnasts lifting weights, injuries, and in particular back injuries.We discuss:How much training is too much training?Should gymnasts, especially in the pubescent/adolescent stage be training gymnastics year-round? Or should they be focusing on being a multi-sport athlete?What is overtraining? Where do you start with someone who’s not hit puberty, not got their menstrual cycle, and has a stress fracture/ type of pain or injury?How many calories do gymnasts burn? How many times a week should someone be doing a legitimate strength and conditioning type program for gymnastics? And what should that include?And…Should every gymnast be stretching? 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/

PreHab is a super important, but super confusing, topic for many people in gymnastics. With so much information out there online, it can be really hard to know what exercises to do, how many of them to do, and when to do them.In this episode, Dave Tilley breaks downWhat PreHab is, and what it isn't"Must know' concepts for gymnastics coaches, parents, and athletes when doing PreHabHow flexibility, strength, balance, and gymnastics specific exercises can helpHow to approach PreHab for different joints like the ankle, knee, hip, lower back, shoulder, and elbow/wristIf you want to get your hands on our BRAND NEW Gymnastics PreHab Circuit PDFs, you can check them out here!https://shiftmovementscience.com/prehabWe 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/