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What do you do to help keep your athletes healthy. For example...
  • We vault onto soft surfaces (resi) 100% during training
  • We use the JF vault table in our club because it has a more forgiving top
  • We use the "sweet spot" (air floor) during all floor take offs
  • We use tumble track for 50% of our tumbling training
  • We use the an extra suede beam pad
  • All of our optionals are required to vault with Tiger Paws
  • Our optional gymnasts train very differently when they are between the ages of "A" and "B" as they are developing
The above are just a few of the things that I have heard from various clubs and coaches. What do you do?
 
I really thought we would get some more responses to this one...I'll start:

We vault all of our optionals onto a resi or loose foam pit 100% of the time (except for meets).
 
I have all the kids do an elbows, wrists, shoulder pre-hab complex (a series of exercises in a specific order) as a warm-up.
We leg condition, but i have to say that we need more knee and ankle re-hab but we will include these at a different time of the year. However for guys upper body extremety is more important at this point (if and since i have to choose)
 
why Alicia will be on the team for Worlds and Olympics

She's lazy. Has many other interests.

The injury prevention strategy?

Fewer reps = fewer chances for injury.

More WAG coaches have to find ways to accomplish the goal taking fewer reps in training. Like MAG do.
 

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