Behind The Scenes: Podium Training U.S. Championships 2024
GymCastic: The Gymnastics Podcast
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🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Spencer is back after surgery and we discussed:
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- Who adjusted their routines post-Classic and how
- Suni Lee's plans for qualifying top five all-around with a downgraded bar routine, and of course, there is an Air Fryer update
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- Updates from USAG President Li Li's press conference on who's making Olympic Trials and an update on the new training center
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| 0:00.0 | You guys, look who's here. |
| 0:02.0 | Yeah, Spens it's here. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi, I'm here. |
| 0:06.0 | Tweet all of your friends. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to Behind the Scenes. |
| 0:10.0 | So this is our immediate reactions right after watching the meet or podium training like today and this is our immediate |
| 0:16.4 | reactions before we do our deep deep analysis and then rewatch but of course |
| 0:20.6 | Spencer's already done that in this head. If you're a club gym |
| 0:23.0 | member, make sure you're in your members feed to get the full podcast. |
| 0:27.1 | Instructions are in the forum or in the show notes. And this show is rated TV 14 |
| 0:31.5 | because we're grown-ups and we can have thoughts with naughty words and today is May 19th. |
| 0:35.9 | I'm in Fort Worth. Spencer is at home and Spencer. |
| 0:39.6 | Would you like to give us your reluctant health update? |
| 0:42.3 | My reluctant health update. My reluctant health update. |
| 0:43.8 | Well, since last we spoke, I have seven incisions |
| 0:47.1 | in my abdominal, abdomen that I didn't have before. |
| 0:50.0 | And I'm part of an organ lighter than I was before. |
| 0:53.9 | But we're done. |
| 0:55.0 | So I'm in between surgery and chemo right now, |
| 0:58.0 | so I'm just kind of chilling and watching nationals. |
| 1:01.6 | But I can sit up straight in a chair, which last time Jessica asked me, I couldn't do that without it being very painful. So recovery from surgery is going well. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm so glad that you can stay up straight again. That was Jessica was like, do you want to do behind the scenes? |
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