As gymnasts begin placing collectively routines and fine-tuning their choreography for this upcoming meet season, you can begin to really feel the stress within the fitness center.
Coaches are saying a pray that their gymnasts are ready and able to compete. Gymnasts are feeling the stress of eager to do effectively this season. Inevitably, the local weather within the fitness center is beginning to really feel turbulent.
Some gymnasts go into a brand new meet season hoping they’ve carried out sufficient within the low season to achieve success in competitors.
However only a few gymnasts go into a brand new meet season with a powerful plan for the way to really feel ready and able to shine.
1. Create psychological choreography NOW.
One factor I coach my gymnasts on is having a psychological routine of phrases/sounds they suppose all through all of their routines. That is usually referred to as psychological choreography as a result of it’s a choreographed set of psychological cues that can hold your gymnast centered all through her routine.
Whereas many gymnasts do have phrases they consider throughout their routines, usually they do not begin training their psychological choreography till meet season is upon them. However it’s finest to apply these psychological cues proper NOW earlier than meet season has even began.
The aim is on your gymnast to know these cues inside and outside in order that when she does compete, she does not need to put in any additional psychological effort to recall her phrases. They are going to come naturally to her as a result of she’s been training them for months. So in case your gymnast hasn’t carried out this but, encourage her to start out now.
2. Do not skip the dance!
As gymnasts, it is common to get hyper centered on having the ability to do your whole huge expertise. The tumbling passes, sequence on beam, launch strikes and dismounts on bars, and effectively…vault. However the majority of deductions are taken on the smaller dance components comparable to leaps and turns. And sadly most gymnasts spend a lot much less time on these components.
The excellent news about leaps, turns, and dance is that your gymnast can apply this stuff at residence. Usually there’s little time in apply to essentially excellent these dance components however your gymnast could make a plan to do a sure variety of leaps and turns every day at residence. She will additionally apply her dance choreography in entrance of a mirror at residence to see the place she will make small changes comparable to lifting her chin or rolling her shoulders again and even smiling!
Simply keep in mind – leaps, turns, and dance are equally vital to your gymnast’s routines and she or he needs to be spending sufficient time on them to arrange for a profitable gymnastics meet season.
3. Work additional laborious on your weakest occasions.
It is common for gymnasts (and all athletes) to coach their strengths whereas avoiding their weaknesses. This would possibly appear like your gymnast working to excellent a tumbling cross she likes whereas avoiding the one she’s struggling on.
Whilst you would suppose we might all give attention to build up our weaknesses, it’s human nature to keep away from them. And that spells catastrophe in gymnastics.
Encourage your gymnast to spend as a lot time, if no more, on expertise she is not pretty much as good at. This may also confer with the dance components (as talked about above) or her type. If it helps, she will create a monitoring sheet with course of objectives (little issues she will do every apply) that may assist her keep centered and have a good time her little victories alongside the way in which. That may make engaged on weaknesses only a tiny bit extra enjoyable.
Over the following two months within the Stick It Lady Academy I might be working with the gymnasts to create a plan to get ready to compete effectively together with psychological choreography, dealing with strain, and overcoming nerves. In case your gymnast is not a member of the Academy, it is time to signal her up. We meet weekly LIVE on Sundays at 7pm EST. Let’s get your gymnast arrange for an awesome meet season forward!
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For those who or your gymnast wants help, along with the assets under I additionally provide one-on-one teaching periods through Zoom.
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