Dr. Ali Arnold on Mental Blocks, Anxiety, Culture, and Goal Setting
In this episode, I chat with Dr. Alison Arnold, PhD who is internationally recognized for her work in mental health. We discuss helping gymnast with mental blocks, managing anxiety around training or ...
25 Feb 20191h 1min
Danusia Francis Talks UCLA Gymnastics, Miss Val, Staying Motivated, and Training as an Elite
In this fantastic episode, I chat with Danusia Francis who is an elite international gymnast and who is a former UCLA Bruin under Miss Val. She shares her insight on motivation, staying healthy, compe...
19 Feb 20191h 13min
Jessica O'Beirne of GymCastic Joins for an Epic Gymnastics Chat!
In this massive episode, I sit down with Jessica O'Beirne of the GymCastic podcast to cover a huge range of topics. We went back and forth on questions we had for each other for an hour and a half. We...
12 Feb 20191h 38min
Q&A - Preventing Back Pain in Gymnasts and What I Would Have Done Differently Competing
In this episode, I cover two questions 1. What are the main ways to prevent back pain in gymnastics and 2. If I could go back to competing, what would I have done differently given what I know now. Ho...
5 Feb 201921min
Miss Val of UCLA Gymnastics on The Future of Gymnastics, Building Culture, and Coaching The Entire Person
In this interview, I chat with the one and only Valorie Kondos Field, aka "Miss Val" about some of her essential ideas for developing student-athletes to be successful, happy, and hardworking in the s...
29 Jan 201949min
(Q&A) Increasing Wrist Flexibility, Site of Pain vs Problem, and Overlooked Gymnastics Problems
In this question and answer episode, I discuss how to increase wrist flexibility, when a site of pain is not the source of pain, and the most commonly overlooked problems in gymnastics development. W...
23 Jan 201917min
Tim Gabbett on Workloads, Sport Culture, and Youth Athletics
In this episode, I sit down with Tim Gabbet PhD to discuss his body of research on workloads, how he believes it applies to youth athletics, the role of culture and coaching style in athletics, and th...
15 Jan 201947min
Changing Gymnastics Culture for A Better Future - 7 of My Thoughts
In this Q&A episode, I take on only one question that I have been asked about most commonly in the last few years - How can gymnastics change to build better cultures in the future. I cover lots of th...
8 Jan 201921min
