The SHIFT Show

Today on the podcast I’m very excited to bring you a thought-provoking and important conversation about cultural change, morals, and ethics of coaching with Tom Elder. Assistant coach for the University of Pennsylvania and the Temple Men's Team as well as an advisor for full-out recruiting services. In addition to coaching for 13 years, he also has an extensive education in Philosophy. A lot...

This week we have a special bonus episode of the Shift Show. We interviewed former and current coaches and gymnasts as part of our Short Film Series on the future of gymnastic strength conditioning.   With overwhelming scientific support for performance benefits, injury risk reduction, mental/emotional health benefits, and reduced risk of athlete burnout, when properly used it is a tool that could...

Today on the podcast a second quick appearance, due to popular demand, my friend and co-worker from Champion Physical Therapy and Performance Diwesh Poudyal. Head of Strength and Conditioning and Director of Fitness working with athletes every day, single-handedly programming for all the NCAA gymnasts, Division One to Three, and Elite Gymnasts that we work with at our facility and have high level,...

Today on the podcast, I'm very excited to be joined by Lindsey Stancil, a high-level coach in the Pennsylvania area. She's been professional and grateful enough to share some alternative points of view on some pretty controversial and complex topics. Being a higher level coach she has a different perspective to me, a middle-level coach, and medical provider. Lindsey points out there are...

Today on the podcast I am super grateful to be joined by accomplished and noted USA Elite MAG Gymnast John Orozco. We dive into John’s journey and learn from the experiences that he had, as we try to navigate the current culture change. He shares the highs and lows of his career and what he's learned from them, giving advice to the younger generation of coaches, parents, gymnasts that have yo...

Mike Reiman on Hip Dysplasia/Microinstability Injuries and Finding Success as a Clinician Today on the podcast I geek out with Duke faculty member & physical therapy researcher, Mike Reinman. One of the most stressful areas for clinicians & coaches is hip injuries, hypermobile, loose gymnast hips. Mike is doing phenomenal work putting out great information on hip dysplasia. We dive into th...

Today on the podcast, I had a great chat with Rebecca Smith who asked me to come on an Instagram Live and talk about, creating cultures where people can feel safe and progression towards high-level goals.   What we're looking at in terms of evolving the culture around competitions and what valuable life lesson are we trying to teach kids, pulling away from ‘it’s only about scores, medals and...

In this week's podcast, I was excited to chat with another member of the Ascend Gymnastics Team. With Elite and NCAA success, Sarah Korngold has achieved this with her nurturing and progressive philosophy. She shares her fantastic knowledge of Beam a subject that we’ve not covered before on the podcast; giving an insight into her lower-level development program and what drills and exercises t...

How do you build a strength program for gymnast in 2021 from scratch?   With overwhelming amount of information on the internet, on gymnasts lifting weights, or knowing how many days, reps, sets or even which exercises to do. It can be stressful for coaches to know where to start. So I enlisted the help of my good friends Dan Lonsdale and Nick Ruddock to combined our brains and literally build a s...

Unfortunately, the fitness & nutrition industry is so noisy & stressful it becomes overwhelming. People just want a little bit of great information & know what to do but there’s too much, complicated stuff out there. Popular on Instagram and YouTuber Jordan Syatt is someone doing a great job of taking the high level information on Nutrition & Fitness & giving it to the everyday...

Following the release of our very popular short film a Call For Change, sparked honestly one of my favourite conversations I've ever had on a podcast. With my good friends from Power Monkey Fitness, a company that I've kind of been working for the last five years. Dave Duranty a 2008 Olympian for Team USA for gymnastics, and Chad Vaughn two time Olympian for Team USA for weightlifting. A...

Gymnastics Canada asked myself and a wonderful researcher, Gretchen Kerr, to join their Culture and Coaching Development Webinar and have a honest talk about how we approach culture change. We discuss HOW gymnastics coaches can find a balance of pushing the envelope, to be positive and successful, but also maintain health and wellness for athletes, parents and themselves. WHAT is Safe Sport?   The...

I want to use the podcast as a way to give people involved in gymnastics a positive example to follow, with people who are doing a great job and attacking these grey areas and harder conversations. This week I am grateful and honoured to be joined by former NNCA athlete and now Ascend Gymnastics Coach Cale Robinson.   We discuss the IMPORTANCE of basics. And HOW you get parents and gymnasts to buy...

How do you get more explosive gymnasts? Today on the podcast I have a friend and co-worker from Champion Physical Therapy and Performance in Boston; Diwesh Poudyal joining me. Head of Strength and Conditioning and Director of Fitness to talk about his area of expertise which is how do you get gymnasts faster? We discuss HOW you increase sprinting speed and tumbling & vaulting power in your gym...

Parent coach relationships are super challenging.   A highly requested episode from the Shift community when I asked what people are struggling with. I got together a great panel of people in this realm: Chelcie who was a Devision 2 Gymnast and her mum Dianna from the Routine Podcast and Eva Shute who runs four gyms which over the last eight years we have been rebuilding the culture together.   We...

Maybe one of the most important podcasts to ever come out; with Christina Anderson registered Dietitian and Board Certified Paediatric Specialist who specialises in eating disorders. We discuss HOW gymnasts feel and think about food. The MYTHS around Nutrition and HOW they are perpetuated in our sports culture. There is NO ONE ‘GYMNAST BODY’. Aesthetics vs performance; what you look like is not ho...

Not only a coach working hard to change the culture in his gym, Brett Wargo from Ascend Gymnastics Seattle is great a representative of the work I do with Shift.   We discuss WHY it’s so important to work on basics from a young age. HOW do you get the athletes to care enough to do really good basics? HOW on how do you find good quality information?! AND HOW do possibly you fit everything into your...

Researcher Natalie Barker - Rutchi, one of the leading experts on Women’s Artistic Gymnastics culture discusses: Discipline and these cultural norms that are accepted in gymnastics but not written down as rules or regulations. AND WHEN the line is crossed with too much control over gymnasts. PLUS The false notion that gymnastics progression is linear and constant. COMING SOON Brand new free Gymnas...

Physical Therapist Araon Horschig, a former competitive Olympic Weight Lifter and now more famously known as Squat University on social media discusses: How you create something that is your passion and turn it into something and turn it into something more valuable? AND WHY are we still struggling to help athletes get back to high performance? PLUS our top tips for New Grads to not struggle like...

Today on the podcast I was asked to do an interview with Aaron Koz who runs his own podcast, we cover a variety of topics related to gymnastics and circus training as well as coaching, culture and scandals. We discuss how we can move the sport in a better direction, what are the mistakes that people are making still and I myself have made. How do we balance keeping someone safe, moving towards hig...

Todays podcast I am super excited and grateful to be sharing a wonderful question and answer session I was asked to do by Jennifer Sey, is one the producers from the impactful Athlete A Documentary. We discuss why we have still such a lack of evidence based practice and science in our sport, but also what is being done well right now, and what’s giving me hope to keep doing my best, by the athlete...

Kicking off another chapter of the podcast and diving into the year with some very exciting returning guests. Tim Gabbett, Sport Scientist and Workload Researcher from Australia and Scott Willgress, Ellie Black’s strength and conditioning coach share their ideas on workloads, wellness and strength and conditioning. This is the future of gymnastics, making sure athletes are not only performing to t...

I'm so excited to be joined by #GymnastAlliance founder Jennifer Pinches and her co-founder for Gymnast4Change Claire Heafford. We discuss the harsh reality of Gymnastics Culture change including the impact of Athlete A, and how we can move forward.  We appreciate you listening! To learn more about SHIFT, head here - https://shiftmovementscience.com/ To learn about SHIFT's courses, check...

Today on the podcast we have a fellow physical therapist and specialist Annemarie Alf who has an amazing story. She shares her experience in PT and S&C working with the Chinese National Team becoming a performance consultant for them for the last 10 years. Working on change related to injuries and management but using strength and conditioning. We also talk honestly about what are we still mis...

This week on the podcast I was asked to do interview with Ryan Zeisloft who runs the Gifted Performance Podcast, he reached out to me and wanted to ask some questions related to gymnastics culture, long term athletic development, gymnast’s lifting weights and the gymnastics alliance movement. We talk about so many different things that I think are doing to be fundamentally important in gymnastics...