440: Chinese Gymnastics Team Trainer Annemarie Alf DPT, CSCS
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 112 minutes
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- Everyone is injured on the eve of Chinese WAG nationals and we're not OK
INTERVIEW
This week, Jessica speaks with Annemarie Alf, an American Doctor of Physical Therapy and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist who has spent the last three quads working with the Chinese women's gymnastics team. We talk about strength training, why there are so few Achilles tears there, nutrition, medical treatments, what we can learn from the Chinese Olympic system, and her thoughts on SafeSport. Plus her descriptions of working with Cheng Fei, Yao Jinnan, Deng LinLin, ChenChen, Chen Yile.
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| 0:00.0 | Remember the show is PG-13 so you might hear a naughty word or two. |
| 0:05.0 | Chunk Fay's Achilles tear did happen when I was there at training and I saw it happen. |
| 0:10.6 | So that was kind of a really, really sad day for us because she was obviously the leader of that team. |
| 0:18.0 | She's one of the most famous athletes in Chinese women's history and I had created a very good relationship with her because actually going into she was hoping to qualify for 2012 and another physio I worked with and she was able I mean the |
| 0:46.8 | tumbling that she was still able to do on and not having an aCL was |
| 0:50.1 | absolutely phenomenal and then a little Achilles- |
| 0:52.8 | Isn't she didn't get it repaired? |
| 0:54.9 | No, no, no, because she didn't have enough time. |
| 0:58.8 | Today, we have Simone posting Triple Pikes and double Yurchenko vaults. |
| 1:05.6 | On to mats, not into the fit this time for the Yurchenko's. |
| 1:09.4 | Kohai and his mom competed at the Japanese Masters |
| 1:14.2 | Championships are going to. |
| 1:15.4 | His mom competed, he's going to compete. |
| 1:18.0 | Along with a man who did a Florentine choreographed music, |
| 1:22.3 | which is the most important thing that's happened in a very long time. |
| 1:26.0 | If you've ever wanted to see men's rhythmic and artistic gymnastics combined, which is obviously the dream it happened. |
| 1:33.2 | Today we have an interview with Anne Marie Elf, |
| 1:36.3 | who is an American PT, a doctor of physical therapy, |
| 1:39.4 | actually a certified strength and conditioning coach, |
| 1:41.2 | and who has worked with the Chinese gymnastics team for three quads. |
| 1:45.0 | And she has really interesting stories like about working with Chung Faye when she |
| 1:50.3 | tore her aCL and then her Achilles and all about how that went down because I was like what |
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