What is Brute: Fundamentals of Gymnastics
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the What is Brute series, I’ll be speaking Brute’s gymnastics doctor, Nick Sorrel. In this episode we’ll be getting into Nick’s personal philosophy on the fundamentals of gymnastics and how his programming is taking our athletes to new heights. Some of the specifics we touch upon include transferable skills in human movement, characteristics of proper progression technique, and developing acute insight for your sport. Enjoy the show.
Topics:
04:10 - Developing insight in athletics
09:10 - Gymnastics philosophy
14:25 - “Collecting accomplishments”
17:20 - The constant pursuit of improvement
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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. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey and welcome back. My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | This is episode 4 of 6 and the What Is Brute Podcast series. |
| 0:35.0 | In episode 1, I told you the basic concept behind why we created Brute in the first place. |
| 0:40.0 | Rather than me try to program for all of our athletes and be the expert in gymnastics, weightlifting, endurance, cross fit, etc, |
| 0:48.0 | we wanted to create a team of experts that would operate in his or her unique genius and collaborate with one |
| 0:55.6 | another to create the best possible program for athletes in the Sport of Fitness. |
| 1:00.6 | In episode two, you heard from our Director of strength and conditioning, Nick Fowler, who told us how he lays out the general programs. |
| 1:09.0 | In episode three, you heard from Matt Bruce, who is the head of brute weightlifting. |
| 1:14.8 | And today you're going to hear from Dr. Nick Sorrell, who is head of brute gymnastics. |
| 1:20.4 | He's an ear nose and throat surgeon by day and I think that lends itself to why he thinks differently and more thoroughly than any coach I've ever met. |
| 1:31.6 | His training as a doctor has taught him to think a little bit differently and think outside the box. |
| 1:38.5 | There are two main things that come to mind that make up his the way that he teaches our athletes gymnastics. |
| 1:47.0 | The first is that he's trying to teach you how to be a carpenter rather than how to build a bird house. So on one hand I could teach you or he could teach you how to build a bird house. He could give you the exact plans to execute to make the perfect bird house. So anytime afterwards |
| 2:06.8 | someone asks you if you could make a bird house you would have the plan and |
| 2:10.1 | you can go and execute that plan. What we want to do is teach you how to be a carpenter |
| 2:16.0 | so that if someone asks you to build a bird house, |
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