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Gymnastics has been the most watched sport during the Olympics!

Meeting Minutes

These are the minutes for the various meetings of the gym club. If you were not able to attend a meeting please download and read so you can keep up with all recent issues and decisions. They are in pdf format.

Fall 2009
8-31-2009 Minutes

Spring 2009
4-7-2009 Minutes
3-10-2009 Minutes
2-12-2009 Minutes

2010-2011 Officers

President: Erin Williamson President@texasstategymnastics.com
Co-Vice Presidents: Amena McCullum/Nick Hunter
Treasurer: Brittany Piatt
Secretary: Robyn Dean
Fundraising Chair: Gabriel Watters
Sargent at Arms: TBA

Constitution

Here is a pdf copy of the club constitution. Right-click and choose "save file as" in order to save a copy to your computer.

Constitution

Conditioning

For those of you who are interested in continueing your conditioning over the breaks here is a generic workout list on a variety of events. Keeping up with your conditioning will make it easier to keep up with your skills and will make you less prone to injury. This is only a list of exercises I thought of to put up here. It is not a planned workout program. Please adapt the exercises to your specific situation.

Floor
•3x handstand walks across floor
•2x tuck jumps across floor
•2x rebounds across floor
•3x 30 sec handstand holds
•10x standing back tucks

Bars
•2x 10 chin ups
•3x 30 sec L holds
•2x 15 sec hold toes to bar
•2x chin hold

Beam
•2x 10 rebounds
•3x 30 toe rises
•2x 10 push ups

Vault
•2x high knee runs
•2x high knee runs backwards
•10x sprint
•10x box jumps

Core
•25x straddle ups
•25x V ups
•12x leg circles
•30x twisting tuck ups
•25x convulsions on each side (4 sides)
•3x hollow body hold 30 secs

Legs-Updating Soon
•2x forward lunge walks across floor
•2x backward lunge walks across floor
•2x duck walks around floor
•2 sets of 10x large box jumps
•3 sets of 25x toe raises (three different directions)
•3 sets of 30 sec chair sits against wall
•3 sets of 10 leg lifts (each direction: forward, back, sideways)
•2x forward roll stand up on one leg across floor (alternate legs)

Arms-Updating Soon
•3 sets of 12x push ups (regular, diamond, wide-arm)
•2 sets of 20x chicken pluckers
•Updating Soon

Plyometrics-Be sure to thoroughly warm up before doing these exercises
•2x rebounds across floor forward
•2x rebounds across floor backward
•2x tuck jumps bounding across floor
•2x one leg rebounds across floor (each leg)
•2 sets of 20x mountain climbers with small box or panel mat
•2 sets of 20x rebounds with small box or panel mat (Up-Downs)
•2x ski jumps across floor


Rings Basic
•10x support swings
•2 sets of 5x L hold (5 sec) press to tuck planche (2 sec)
•2 sets of 10x wide arm ear ups
•10x chin up to front lever
•10x dips
•5x muscle ups
•2 sets of 5x mini cross pull outs
•5x back levers

Rings Advanced
•10x support swings
•2 sets of 5x L hold (5 sec) to straddle planche (2 sec)
•2 sets 5x cross pullouts (with spot)
•5x L hold (5 sec) press handstand
•3x handstand holds (30 sec)
•2 sets 3x L hold (5 sec) press to maltese (3 sec) with spot
•5x cross downs
•2 sets 10x dips


Parallel Bars
•2 sets of 10x push ups with wide bars
•2 sets of 30 sec handstand holds
•3 sets of 30 sec 'V' holds
•2 sets of press sequence (straddle, pike, straight-straight, straight-bent)
•2 sets of 10x swing handstands

Pommel Horse
•20x In and Outs
•Max out circles
•10x circles on every part of horse

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~ anonymous gymnast