CARLY PATTERSON'S ALBUM: BACK TO THE BEGINNING

• This episode has been commissioned by "Just an Ordinary Girl Putting Up a Fight to Get Out of This Temporary Life," who requested an episode analyzing the music of 2004 Olympic Champion, Carly Rae Patterson and her 2009 album, Back to the Beginning.
• We answer important questions like, which song is a metaphor for WOGA? And which one is really about Khorkina?

Gymnastics Science Myth Busters with Dr. Dave Tilley PT, NCSA

• The internal work; therapy and/or self reflection, necessary to be healthy in our jobs and relationships
• Learning to have a healthy relationship with exercise after gymnastics
• The actual force impact of landings and falls and a yurchenko double back on the body
• The science behind back pain in gymnasts during puberty.
• Red S Syndrome (formerly Female Athlete Triad) and the damaging garbage nutrition fads hurting gymnasts.
• Gymnastics Myth Busted with an Dr. Dave Tilley PhD:
  • You have to be short, young, and under-developed to be good at gymnastics and all skills have to be learned before puberty. False!
    • We discuss the physical and psychological advantages of hormones and puberty for female gymnasts.
  • Gymnasts and children should never weight train. False!
    • The original study was based on children laborers and not safe, supervised weightlifting.
  • Back pain, during puberty especially, is just a normal part of gymnastics and can't be prevented. False!
    • We discuss the effect hormones have on ligaments and bones during healthy puberty and how coaches can help their gymnasts safely navigate this growth period.
  • If you are overweight you will tear your achilles. False!
    • BMI is not a factor in gymnasts achilles tears. Read the study here.

Resources & References:

• • SHIFT Movement Science and Gymnastics Education
  • SHIFT Free Resource Lab 
  • SHIFT Hero Lab: international online gymnastics education community
  • Developing Powerful Athletes Pt 1 
  • Developing Powerful Athletes Pt 2  
  • Long Term Athletic Development
  • Natalie Yurchenko Olympic Channel interview on yurchenko double back.
  • Factors Associated With Achilles Tendon Rupture in Women's Collegiate Gymnastics
  • Weight Training Safety & Performance in children and adolescents:
    • The effectiveness of exercise interventions to prevent sports injuries (BJSM) 
    • Youth Resistance Training International Consensus Position Statement (BJSM) 
    • Resistance training for children and adolescents (Translational Pediatrics) 
    • Youth Resistance Training Position Statement Paper (JSCR)
    • Plyometric training performance in elite-oriented prepubertal female gymnasts 
    • Effects if Resistance Training in Youth Athletes 
    • The effects of eccentric training on lower limb flexibility: a systematic review (BJSM) 
    • Increasing muscle extensibility: a matter of increasing length or modifying sensation? (Phys Ther) 
    • Regular stretch does not increase muscle extensibility (Scan J Med Sci Sports)
  • Red S Syndrome and Disordered Eating in Gymnastics:
    • Understanding Eating Disorders in Elite Gymnastics (Clin Sports Med)
    • Disordered Eating in Women's Gymnastics (JASP)
    • The IOC consensus statement on RED-S (BJSM)
    • Interaction among skeletal muscle metabolic energy systems during intense exercise (J Nutr Metab)

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