So this has been fun… 8 days of stomach flu feeling like a human sprinkler system and no workouts. I am not sure why the sickness felt like it needed 3 run throughs just to get the job done but whatever the reason I am back now. I had breakfast for the first time this […]
Archive for Gymnastics / Bootcamp
06
Apr
2016
First Competition and The Cut At Work
This last couple of weeks has been very busy, with our first competition of the year in Brampton, two very big birthdays in the family and of course from my perspective time passing so very slowly because I can’t have wings 🙂 The girls did OK at competition, some much better than others naturally but […]
24
Mar
2016
Level 3 Coaching Review and Official Start To Cut
So it’s been a few coaching sessions since I finished my level 3 course and I can honestly say that it has changed the way I am coaching. Not only am I more aware of the shaping that we have been working on all year but more so the effect that shaping has on the […]
24
Mar
2016
Level 3 Coaching Course Day 5 – The Presentation
Tags: coaching
Today was the day everyone was dreading except me. I really don’t have a problem speaking in front of smaller groups of people so the presentation really didn’t bother me. Not only that, I had chosen for my topic something that we were about to cover that morning anyway, Long Term Programming. For the morning […]
18
Mar
2016
Level 3 Coaching Course Day 4
Tags: coaching
Day 4 – Rings and Vault and Parallel Bars ..or  how not to get hit in the face by rings while spotting. We started with the familiar review of biomechanics a great way to start the day by the way, you should really try talking about spring actions and ground forces during breakfast it’s great […]
13
Mar
2016
Level 3 Coaching Course – Day 2/3
Day 2 – Floor and Bars Or as it should be known, OMG TWISTING!! We started off with some more biomechanics of spring actions, taking a lot about the vault and turning over from the board using the opposing force of the floor. We touched a bit on torque twisting as a demonstration of opposing […]
13
Mar
2016
Level 3 Coaching Course – Day 1
Tags: Gymnastics coaching
Day 1 – Intro and basics from Level 2 (Including the fact there isn’t a level 2 any more) The system is changing, they are doing away with the 3 levels that are currently split between the MAG and WAG disciplines and making a new NCCP system on 6 levels as follows: The NCCP for […]
16
Dec
2015
Christmas Countdown Workouts – Cardio
It’s Christmas, that doesn’t mean anyone gets out of doing cardio…
15
Dec
2015
Christmas Countdown Workouts – Legs and Abs
This one is kind of leaning towards Cardio, but as you will see tomorrow there is a special cardio day with all the festive trimmings…
14
Dec
2015
Christmas Countdown Workouts – Bootcamp
At Christmas as the mood lightens I like to give my kids some fun things to do for conditioning which usually just means a 12 Days Of Christmas theme. This year is no exception so here you are, the next 3 days will contain my Christmas Cracker workouts. Merry early Christmas.
