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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. Tackling all things gymnastics and performance sport, from physical preparation and psychology, to nutrition and lifestyle, this podcast is a must ...
The SHIFT Show is an educational podcast to help people get the tools, ideas, and latest science they need to help change athletes lives. It is hosted by Dr. Dave Tilley a Sports Physical Therapist, Gymnastics Coach, Strength and Conditioning Coach, International Lecturer, and the CEO of SHIFT movement Science.
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EP050 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Kat Driscoll
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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Exactly How To Build a Gymnastics Strength Program in 2021 with Nick Ruddock and Dan Lonsdale
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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 Ruddoc…
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Sarah Korngold Discusses Developing Elite Level Gymnastics, Putting The Athlete First, and Building Cultures
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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 develo…
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Jordan Syatt Discusses Nutrition, Fitness, and Weight Loss Myths in Society
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Unfortunately, the fitness & nutrition industry is so noisy & stressful it becomes overwhelming. People just want a little bit of great information & know what to do but there’s too much, complicated stuff out there. Popular on Instagram and YouTuber Jordan Syatt is someone doing a great job of taking the high level information on Nutrition & Fitne…
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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Jen Pinches and I Discuss Gymnastics Changes That Must Happen for Meaningful Progress in Our Sport
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Following the release of our very popular short film a Call For Change, sparked honestly one of my favourite conversations I've ever had on a podcast. With my good friends from Power Monkey Fitness, a company that I've kind of been working for the last five years. Dave Duranty a 2008 Olympian for Team USA for gymnastics, and Chad Vaughn two time Ol…
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EP048 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and John Orozco
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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Gymnastics Canada Hosts Culture and Coaching Development Webinar with Gretchen Kerr and Dave Tilley
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Gymnastics Canada asked myself and a wonderful researcher, Gretchen Kerr, to join their Culture and Coaching Development Webinar and have a honest talk about how we approach culture change. We discuss HOW gymnastics coaches can find a balance of pushing the envelope, to be positive and successful, but also maintain health and wellness for athletes,…
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EP047 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Cecile Landi
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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Skill Progressions, Mental Blocks, and Building Healthy and High Performing Gymnasts with Cale Robinson
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I want to use the podcast as a way to give people involved in gymnastics a positive example to follow, with people who are doing a great job and attacking these grey areas and harder conversations. This week I am grateful and honoured to be joined by former NNCA athlete and now Ascend Gymnastics Coach Cale Robinson. We discuss the IMPORTANCE of bas…
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EP046 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock with Brett Wargo & Sarah Korngold
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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The 3 Steps for Building Explosive Speed and Power in Gymnastics
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How do you get more explosive gymnasts? Today on the podcast I have a friend and co-worker from Champion Physical Therapy and Performance in Boston; Diwesh Poudyal joining me. Head of Strength and Conditioning and Director of Fitness to talk about his area of expertise which is how do you get gymnasts faster? We discuss HOW you increase sprinting s…
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EP045 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Georgia Bonora
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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The Gymnastics Parents Episode: Handling Conflicts, Realistic Expectations, and Setting Boundaries
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Parent coach relationships are super challenging. A highly requested episode from the Shift community when I asked what people are struggling with. I got together a great panel of people in this realm: Chelcie who was a Devision 2 Gymnast and her mum Dianna from the Routine Podcast and Eva Shute who runs four gyms which over the last eight years we…
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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The Food and Body Image Talk Gymnasts and Coaches Must Hear with Christina Anderson, RDN
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Maybe one of the most important podcasts to ever come out; with Christina Anderson registered Dietitian and Board Certified Paediatric Specialist who specialises in eating disorders. We discuss HOW gymnasts feel and think about food. The MYTHS around Nutrition and HOW they are perpetuated in our sports culture. There is NO ONE ‘GYMNAST BODY’. Aesth…
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EP043 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Kerry Bair
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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Building Gymnastics Skill Basics & Drills, Motivating Athletes, and High Performing Cultures with Brett Wargo
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Not only a coach working hard to change the culture in his gym, Brett Wargo from Ascend Gymnastics Seattle is great a representative of the work I do with Shift. We discuss WHY it’s so important to work on basics from a young age. HOW do you get the athletes to care enough to do really good basics? HOW on how do you find good quality information?! …
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EP042 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Dave Tilley
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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Changing "Unspoken Norms" In Gymnastics with Natalie Barker-Rutchi
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Researcher Natalie Barker - Rutchi, one of the leading experts on Women’s Artistic Gymnastics culture discusses: Discipline and these cultural norms that are accepted in gymnastics but not written down as rules or regulations. AND WHEN the line is crossed with too much control over gymnasts. PLUS The false notion that gymnastics progression is line…
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Aaron Horschig of Squat University Shares Advice All Physical Therapists Need to Hear
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Physical Therapist Araon Horschig, a former competitive Olympic Weight Lifter and now more famously known as Squat University on social media discusses: How you create something that is your passion and turn it into something and turn it into something more valuable? AND WHY are we still struggling to help athletes get back to high performance? PLU…
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How Coaching Styles Impact Performance and Health in Athletes
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Today on the podcast I was asked to do an interview with Aaron Koz who runs his own podcast, we cover a variety of topics related to gymnastics and circus training as well as coaching, culture and scandals. We discuss how we can move the sport in a better direction, what are the mistakes that people are making still and I myself have made. How do w…
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Jennifer Sey of the Athlete A Film Discusses What Needs To Change in Gymnastics
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Todays podcast I am super excited and grateful to be sharing a wonderful question and answer session I was asked to do by Jennifer Sey, is one the producers from the impactful Athlete A Documentary. We discuss why we have still such a lack of evidence based practice and science in our sport, but also what is being done well right now, and what’s gi…
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How To Train Harder and Smarter Using Workloads with Tim Gabbett and Scott Willgress
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Kicking off another chapter of the podcast and diving into the year with some very exciting returning guests. Tim Gabbett, Sport Scientist and Workload Researcher from Australia and Scott Willgress, Ellie Black’s strength and conditioning coach share their ideas on workloads, wellness and strength and conditioning. This is the future of gymnastics,…
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Gymnast Alliance and A Call For Change with Jennifer Pinches and Claire Heafford
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I'm so excited to be joined by #GymnastAlliance founder Jennifer Pinches and her co-founder for Gymnast4Change Claire Heafford. We discuss the harsh reality of Gymnastics Culture change including the impact of Athlete A, and how we can move forward.By Dave Tilley
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The Future of Gymnastics Strength Training and Overcoming Cultural Barriers with Annemarie Alf
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Today on the podcast we have a fellow physical therapist and specialist Annemarie Alf who has an amazing story. She shares her experience in PT and S&C working with the Chinese National Team becoming a performance consultant for them for the last 10 years. Working on change related to injuries and management but using strength and conditioning. We …
This week on the podcast I was asked to do interview with Ryan Zeisloft who runs the Gifted Performance Podcast, he reached out to me and wanted to ask some questions related to gymnastics culture, long term athletic development, gymnast’s lifting weights and the gymnastics alliance movement. We talk about so many different things that I think are …
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Advice Every Gymnastics Coach Needs to Hear on Flexibility, Gymnasts Wanting to Quit, Icing, and Managing Goals
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With the launch of SHIFT HQ I raffled off a free consult with my self and regular podcast guest, my close friend and director of the YMCA gymnastics centres in Boston Eva Shute. Katie was the consult winner and we sat down for an hour and half and talked about icing controversy and injuries, how to gain flexibility and make it stick and the science…
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An Honest Talk About Mental Health, Depression, and Stress in Gymnastics with Luke Carson
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On this episode of the podcast I have a very important conversation with former Elite Gymnast and now Coach Luke Carson around all things mental health. An open honest conversation about the pandemic and being in gymnastics right now with the recent scandals and publicity around culture change. It's a tough time for those working in gymnastics to k…
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Aimee Boorman on Coaching Simone Biles, Positive Training Environments, and Culture Change in Gymnastics
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This is the 100th episode of The SHIFT Show and the podcast! Thank you to everyone who has been listening and helped the podcast grow over the last two years. Turning it into a medium and a space to have really important conversations that are having a positive impact on gymnastics and people lives. I want to continue to help people learn the infor…
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“The Way We’ve Always Done It” – Changing Gymnastics Beliefs with Dr. Michelle Flemons
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A massively valuable podcast with Dr Michelle Flemons who is an associate Professor at the University of Bedfordshire in the UK. She is a Senior Lecturer and has a PHD in Sport Pedagogy and Physical Education. A former Elite Gymnast who trained with the Junior National Team of Hong Kong and is still involved in coaching today. We look at how you ge…
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Ellie Black’s Strength Coach Scott Willgress on Elite Performance and Culture Change
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This weeks podcast I chat to Scott Willgrass one of the strength and conditioning coaches working with Gymnastics Canada and Ellie Black. He is one of many who is pushing the narrative of changing how we approach strength and conditioning in the sport of gymnastics. We dive into how he got started, the common problems he faced and mistakes he made,…
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How To Navigate Puberty in Gymnastics with Dr. Ellen Casey and Nick Ruddock
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A highly requested episode featuring Dr Ellen Casey who is the Sports Medicine Physician for the US Women’s Senior National Team and frequent flyer on the podcast Nick Ruddock. We tackle an open, honest, candid conversation about puberty, growth and how we can better help younger athletes during this time.…
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Advice Men’s Gymnastics Needs to Hear with Paul Sargsyan
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This week I talk to USA MAG Coach Paul Sargysan who has outstanding technical knowledge and he represents someone who really cares about his athletes and the culture that he builds in his gym is positive, respectful and focused on work ethic. Using gymnastics as a vessel to get really great values taught to his athletes. In the podcast we dive into…
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New Model of Gymnastics (Part 4) - Competitive Planning
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In the final part of this 4 part lecture I cover Competitive Planning and how we will now approach our competitive year. Sharing and explain our clubs new approach, breaking down the monthly blocks and what goes into each week, session and event.By Dave Tilley
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Discussing A New Model of Gymnastics Part 3 - Micro Principles
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In part 3 of this 4 part lecture, I share examples of how my club has put into practice ideas discussed in the Macro Principle lecture. From our Rule of 7 and Traffic Light System, I explain the importance on Journalling and how to record, track and use Wellness and Monitoring Programmes. As well as covering a Hybrid Strength and Conditioning Model…
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Saving Men's NCAA Gymnastics Roundtable Discussion
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I sit down with Kensley Behel, Justin Spring, Brett McClure, Mike Burns, and Mark Williams to discuss what can be done to save Men's NCAA Gymnastics.
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Discussing A New Model of Gymnastics Part 2 - Macro Principles
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In part 2 of this 4 part lecture, I discuss more specific concepts to how we approach our gym's culture, operations, and bigger picture items. These include our ethical guidelines, an athlete-centered model, education, communicaton, coaching athletes holistically, delaying specialization, and respecting age - training hours until the age of 12.…
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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New Model of Gymnastics Part 1 - Global Values
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Part 1 of 4 lectures brain storming new ideas about what I feel we can do to make the sport happier and healthier. This is my attempt to share with everyone what I feel is important, backed up from research and literature I’ve read. Hopefully starting a better discussion of new ideas to try.By Dave Tilley
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Why We Need To Take Concussions More Seriously In Gymnastics
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I sit down with Dr. Emily Sweeney to discuss why youth concussions in all sports, but particularly gymnastics, are a huge 'elephant in the room' issue we need to do a better job addressing.By Dave Tilley
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EP040 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Leon Taylor
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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My Mental Health Journey and Advice New Grads Need To Hear
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Rachel Heller 3rd year PT student reaches out as part of her school project to gain insight into my PT journey. From school, the different types of certifications and how I got to where I am today. We discus and cover my mental health journey, how to stay on top of new research, how I find the time to do everything I do and my advice for coaches an…
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EP039 Gymnastics Growth Show - Nick Ruddock and Nick Blanton
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Welcome to the Gymnastics Growth Show podcast, brought to you by Nick Ruddock, a performance Gymnastics Coach and consultant to international gymnastics teams and professional sports clubs. In this podcast, Nick and his special guests share the strategies and tactics used to optimise athlete and coach performance from grass roots to gold standard. …
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An Inside Peak to Michigan Women's Gymnastics Strength Program with Lew Porchiazzo
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Head Strength Coach Lew Porciazzo sits down with my to chat about the principles, exercises, and workouts he uses with Michigan Women's Gymnastics Program.By Dave Tilley
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Our Gym's Culture Was Toxic. Here's Exactly How We Fixed It.
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For the first time ever, our Gymnastics Director of Operations who is also one of my best friends and boss, Eva Shute joins the podcast. We break down all the biggest problems we faced with our toxic culture, and the exact steps we took to change things over 8 years.By Dave Tilley
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Chellsie Memmel Discusses Her Elite Comeback, Lessons Learned, and Positive Coaching Philosophies
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Chellsie Memmel joins me to chat about her amazing elite gymnastics come back! We also discuss the biggest things she has learned, and how she feels the gymnastics community should be changing to focus more on positive coaching in the wake of Athlete A and the Gymnastics Alliance movement.By Dave Tilley
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Coaching Tools For High Level Gymnastics Without Sacrificing Health
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I sit down with Juston Ziegler, who spent many years working under Mihai Brestyan and has now moved on to be the head coach of Flyaways Gymnastics in Minnesota. He is a perfect example of blending the 'old school' techniques with newer ideas he has learned from people outside the gymnastics world.By Dave Tilley
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Courtney McGregor Discusses Gymnastics Culture Change, Elite/NCAA Career, and Achilles Injuries
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I'm was super grateful to be able to sit down and chat with elite, NCAA, and Olympic gymnast Courtney McGregor. Courtney has had an insane career of accomplishments and has spent the last 10 years training and competing at the highest level of international level. We chat all things from gymnastics culture change, to NCAA gymnastics, the Olympics, …
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My Exact 3 Month Strength Program For Post COVID Gymnastics + Full Lecture
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Returning to training is very intimidating for gyms, so I wanted to take a deep dive with my friend Dan Lonsdale to share exactly how we are approaching out strength programs in the next 3 months.By Dave Tilley
