Help with Gymnastics strength and conditioning

[scotty_21]

Hi all,

I'm very new to the gymnastics scene. I'm a strength and conditioning student going into my third year at university in London. I've recently got a job as a strength and conditioning coach at a private gymnastics club near me and I'm struggling to find different exercises to do with the athletes.

The athletes I coach are aged 5-14, all very good gymnasts. They get sent to me in different groups and I do the same sort of thing with each group. However, the equipment I have available to use is very limited. All I've done so far is use mats for the gymnasts to standon/perform exercises on. The exercises I've used to far are:

Press Ups

Sit Ups

V-sit

Burpees

Mountain climbers

Plank/side plank

Back extensions

Tuck Jumps

Bodyweight squats

And then I get them to perform the right, left and box splits to finish.

I use reps of 15-30 (dependent on exercise, press ups is around 10).

Could anyone shed some light as to what else I could do with them? Like a mentioned, they're great athletes and very disciplined (some more than others), and are happy to do and try new things.

Any ideas?

[Rik de Kort]

Get the book, read the stickies.

Make sure you get some rings in there!

[scotty_21]

What book is that? Yeah I'm still having a look around the site, and I've only been at the job for three weeks. I don't think they have rings!

[Rik de Kort]

Then they can't be a gymnastics club. Get some rings ASAP.

The book is Building the Gymnastic Body, available on the site.