by Coach Brittany | Sep 21, 2017 | Athletes, Coaches, Gymnastics, Motivational Blog
Over my years of coaching I have come up with a few ways to help make stretching more exciting and worth-while for my younger aged athletes. Of course it is not something I do every practice because training flexibility has to be serious as well. It takes discipline...
by Coach Brittany | Sep 19, 2017 | Coaches, Gymnastics
Flexibility is such an important part of gymnastics that I find it is often overlooked because most athletes don’t enjoy it and would rather train skills. In the past couple years I have noticed that flexibility overall has decreased in gymnastics. Is that just...
by Coach Brittany | Sep 8, 2017 | Brain Games, Motivational Blog
You may have heard of this one before. It is generally an ice breaker type game for getting to know new people but I have tweaked it a little and made it into a confidence building and team bonding activity. Instructions Each athlete gets a piece of paper big enough...
by Coach Brittany | Sep 4, 2017 | Coaches, Gymnastics
Before We Start Teaching pre-competitive gymnasts is very tough. In fact, I find it to be the most difficult of all the levels and age categories that there are to teach in gymnastics. I have had the opportunity to raise many pre-competitive (pre-comp) groups from...
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