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...
May 20, 2021•11 min
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. W...
May 18, 2021•1 hr 17 min
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'r...
May 11, 2021•1 hr 36 min
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 ...
May 04, 2021•45 min
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 ...
Apr 27, 2021•1 hr 19 min
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 athlet...
Apr 20, 2021•36 min
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...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 27 min
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...
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 42 min
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 & Fitness & giving it to the everyday person for basic, easy to use strategies. We discuss WHY a small win is better than not playing the...
Mar 30, 2021•43 min
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 Olympian for Team USA for weightlifting. And GB Olympian Jennifer Pinches, who you guys may have heard an episode on earlier this year with Claire Halfo...
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr 16 min
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, parents and themselves. WHAT is Safe Sport? The changes in social norms and WHY, what was okay in the past in not okay now. WHAT does psychological h...
Mar 16, 2021•1 hr 39 min
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 basics. And HOW you get parents and gymnasts to buy into your beliefs. Beyond a handstand the one skill you YOU NEED TO DO perfectly. WHY knowing how to ...
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 17 min
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 speed and tumbling & vaulting power in your gymnasts. The DIFFERENCE between acceleration vs top end speed. And how to INCREASE both in your athlet...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 19 min
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 have been rebuilding the culture together. We discuss the FALSE time line in gymnastics. How many decisions have you made without asking ENOUGH quest...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 40 min
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’. Aesthetics vs performance; what you look like is not how you perform. ALSO… WHY The American dream WILL NOT bring you happiness. ENROL NOW! Essential Tools...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 41 min
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?! AND HOW do possibly you fit everything into your daily schedule?!! We dive into the rate at which you accumulate miles as a younger athlete. PLUS… Bre...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 32 min
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 linear and constant. COMING SOON Brand new free Gymnastics Coaches course on flexibility, strength, basics, injury prevention, and culture development. RE...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 17 min
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? PLUS our top tips for New Grads to not struggle like we did. COMING SOON Brand new free Gymnastics Coaches course on flexibility, strength, basics, injur...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 20 min
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 we balance keeping someone safe, moving towards high performance and staying up to date with new ideas. We appreciate you listening! To learn more abou...
Jan 19, 2021•1 hr 15 min
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 giving me hope to keep doing my best, by the athletes. We appreciate you listening! To learn more about SHIFT, head here - https://shiftmovementscience....
Jan 12, 2021•32 min
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, making sure athletes are not only performing to their best but also staying healthier. We appreciate you listening! To learn more about SHIFT, head h...
Jan 05, 2021•1 hr 22 min
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. 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 shar...
Dec 15, 2020•1 hr 29 min
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 also talk honestly about what are we still missing in gymnastics, why aren’t they fast enough, why they have injuries, and why are they burning ou...
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 10 min
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 doing to be fundamentally important in gymnastics moving forward. We appreciate you listening! To learn more about SHIFT, head here - https://shiftmov...
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 11 min
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 behind that. But also some harder conversations; how to help athletes with high level goals get to where they want to be, when you have other athlete...
Nov 24, 2020•1 hr 34 min
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 keep a good head space; we discuss how to have a better open conversation about anxiety, depression and stress and what people can do to de-stigmatise ...
Nov 17, 2020•1 hr 19 min
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 information they want to know and be a vessel to spread it across the gymnastics world wide community. This special 100th features the legendary Aimee Boor...
Nov 10, 2020•1 hr 8 min
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 get away from “that’s the way we’ve always done it”; how do you get change? How do you get belief systems to change? How you deal with people who are go...
Nov 03, 2020•1 hr 54 min
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, dig into what Ellie’s training looks like and what he thinks performance wise we can do to get gymnasts more powerful, faster and have more endurance...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 13 min
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. 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.shiftmovementscie...
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 29 min
