As gymnasts begin placing collectively routines and fine-tuning their choreography for this upcoming meet season, you can begin to really feel the strain within the fitness center.
Coaches are saying a pray that their gymnasts are ready and able to compete. Gymnasts are feeling the stress of desirous to do nicely 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 achieved sufficient within the low season to achieve success in competitors.
However only a few gymnasts go into a brand new meet season with a robust plan for easy methods 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 known as psychological choreography as a result of it’s a choreographed set of psychological cues that may preserve your gymnast targeted all through her routine.
Whereas many gymnasts do have phrases they give thought to throughout their routines, usually they do not begin training their psychological choreography till meet season is upon them. But it surely’s greatest to apply these psychological cues proper NOW earlier than meet season has even began.
The aim is to your gymnast to know these cues in and out in order that when she does compete, she does not should put in any further psychological effort to recall her phrases. They may come naturally to her as a result of she’s been training them for months. So in case your gymnast hasn’t achieved this but, encourage her to start out now.
2. Do not skip the dance!
As gymnasts, it is common to get hyper targeted on having the ability to do your whole large expertise. The tumbling passes, collection on beam, launch strikes and dismounts on bars, and nicely…vault. However the majority of deductions are taken on the smaller dance parts akin to leaps and turns. And sadly most gymnasts spend a lot much less time on these parts.
The excellent news about leaps, turns, and dance is that your gymnast can apply these items at residence. Usually there’s little time in apply to actually good these dance parts 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 be able to make small changes akin to lifting her chin or rolling her shoulders again and even smiling!
Simply keep in mind – leaps, turns, and dance are equally essential to your gymnast’s routines and she or he ought to be spending sufficient time on them to organize for a profitable gymnastics meet season.
3. Work further arduous 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 good 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 nearly as good at. This may also confer with the dance parts (as talked about above) or her type. If it helps, she will be able to create a monitoring sheet with course of targets (little issues she will be able to do every apply) that may assist her keep targeted and have a good time her little victories alongside the best way. That may make engaged on weaknesses only a tiny bit extra enjoyable.
Over the subsequent two months within the Stick It Lady Academy I might be working with the gymnasts to create a plan to get ready to compete nicely 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 important meet season forward!
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Should you or your gymnast wants assist, along with the sources under I additionally supply one-on-one teaching classes through Zoom.
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