Skills vs. Strength In Gymnastics ft. Nick Sorrel
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Just like the progression of any relationship, your ability to advance in gymnastics relies on fundamentals—as in, to show off your expert form, you first need to build a solid foundation.
In true doctor fashion, Head of Brute Gymnastics Dr. Nick Sorrel joins this week’s Brute podcast to dissect the more advanced movements of the sport to help set you up for success. He also jumps into the differences between strength and skill to discuss how each plays a role in improving your performance.
If you’re craving more of Sorrel’s wisdom, you can queue up his other appearances on the Brute Strength podcast: What Is Brute: Fundamentals of Gymnastics, PRing Your Muscle Up, Gymnastics Programming 101.
Topics:
11:10 – The Four Burners Theory
24:00 – 12 Rules of Life
30:10 – Key gymnastics principles
48:40 – Mistakes in training
53:20 – Dissecting the muscle-up
Links:
The Perfect Day Formula – Craig Ballantyne (Free copy)
Books:
Deep Work – Cal Newport
Digital Minimalism – Cal Newport
Atomic Habits – James Clear
The Perfect Day Formula – Craig Ballantyne
12 Rules of Life – Jordan Peterson
Tools of Titans – Tim Ferris
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.0 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, |
| 0:15.0 | 2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ, |
| 0:18.0 | Michael Kaju. |
| 0:19.0 | Mind, Body, Brute. body brute. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, welcome back. This is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. This week I've got one of my favorite individuals back on the show, the Gymnastics Dr. Nick Sorrell. |
| 0:37.0 | Nick is the head of Brute Gymnastics, as well as an ear nose and throat doctor in Louisiana. |
| 0:43.9 | Nick is one of my favorite people to talk to |
| 0:45.9 | because he is such a deep thinker |
| 0:49.4 | and he is a very values driven person. |
| 0:52.8 | He's constantly looking at the decisions he makes |
| 0:56.2 | and the behaviors in his life |
| 0:58.4 | and putting them through the filter of does this align |
| 1:01.9 | with my deepest values? |
| 1:04.0 | And so in the beginning of this show, |
| 1:05.6 | you'll hear us talk a lot about kind of the meaning of life |
| 1:09.4 | and how taking more responsibility in your life leads to a better experience. |
| 1:16.0 | We talk about what to do as your goals change, |
| 1:19.6 | how to maintain your level of fitness |
| 1:22.0 | and how we've both done that over the course of time. |
| 1:25.6 | And then I ask him a handful of questions out of the Tim Ferris book, Tools of Titans, a series of questions that are meant to dissect physical |
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