- Aug 26, 2013
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Hello (again)!
It's been a while since I last posted here, maybe a few years even, god how time flies ... I've been reading here on and off but have been off gymnastics a little bit finishing my studies, stumbling through life as a young adult, all that stuff ...
Be that as it may, life has brought me back to gymnastics and guess what I ended up coaching. Not only as a side job but really professionally which is rather uncommon outside the high performance sports here in Germany and I count myself very lucky to be where I am now!
I'm coaching a variety of groups including a competitive group of older girls (11-19) competing an equivalent of your Level 6/7. I'm very happy with their development in general on every apparatus but bars.
They came with a bit of a lack of strength and basics and we've been trying to catch up in that regard, but I never seem to be able to get everything in: Conditioning, Basics but also staying in touch with what they're currently working on.
I would like to develop a better structure on bars that both ensures a proper physical preperation but also leaves time for us to work on all the necessary elements (Right now: Kips, Casts, Sole circles, Giants, Dismounts). Right now I feel like were're floating a bit from this to that, not really getting anything done properly.
They come in 3x a week and we have bars for half an hour each + 1/2 hour of extra conditioning time 2x a week.
We have the luxury of a set up gym, but only one set of UB, a LB and a HB. There are sessions when the girls only get two goes on the UBs...
Any tips? How do you structure you UBs training?
It's been a while since I last posted here, maybe a few years even, god how time flies ... I've been reading here on and off but have been off gymnastics a little bit finishing my studies, stumbling through life as a young adult, all that stuff ...
Be that as it may, life has brought me back to gymnastics and guess what I ended up coaching. Not only as a side job but really professionally which is rather uncommon outside the high performance sports here in Germany and I count myself very lucky to be where I am now!
I'm coaching a variety of groups including a competitive group of older girls (11-19) competing an equivalent of your Level 6/7. I'm very happy with their development in general on every apparatus but bars.
They came with a bit of a lack of strength and basics and we've been trying to catch up in that regard, but I never seem to be able to get everything in: Conditioning, Basics but also staying in touch with what they're currently working on.
I would like to develop a better structure on bars that both ensures a proper physical preperation but also leaves time for us to work on all the necessary elements (Right now: Kips, Casts, Sole circles, Giants, Dismounts). Right now I feel like were're floating a bit from this to that, not really getting anything done properly.
They come in 3x a week and we have bars for half an hour each + 1/2 hour of extra conditioning time 2x a week.
We have the luxury of a set up gym, but only one set of UB, a LB and a HB. There are sessions when the girls only get two goes on the UBs...
Any tips? How do you structure you UBs training?