Gymnastics Open Gym Recap

I think I've just had the most intense workout I've possibly ever had. I did so much at the gymnastics open gym! I started off with stretching. Then, I warmed up with forward rolls, backwards rolls, handstands, handstand to forward rolls, cartwheels on both sides, round-offs, forward walk-overs, more handstands, more cartwheels, etc. Then, one of the coaches spotted me on my back handspring on a wedge mat. After doing a bunch of them, with the coach gradually lightening his spot, I started doing them without a spot. I don't think I had lost much progress on that at all. I did probably 20 back handsprings overall. That took me through the first 30 minutes. Then, the other side of the gym opened up.

I did 3 sessions on the trampoline. I did my tuck jumps, straddle jumps, pike jumps, seat drops, seat drops twisting for a chain of 5 of them, back drops, front drops, back drop into front drop, table drop. Then, I asked for a spot on my back tuck (back flip). I did quite well with that, and after a bunch of them, I was doing them without a spot - no problem. Like I said, I did trampoline 3 times, with easily over 20 back tucks total. I also did a little on the balance beam. I did some on the vault (jumping on the spring board and onto the vault table, then doing a handstand and kind of arching over onto a mat). And, I did some uneven bars work. I was still able to do a pull over. Then, the coach set me up with this attachment which helped me to train for a thing where you rotate backwards around the bar (with the bar touching the pelvis area the whole time - not swinging all the way around with your whole body extended, that's much more advanced and you need a grip thing). Then, I practiced my kip (pushing off the bar), and the coach spotted me to do the revolvy thing without the attachment. I have a ways to go on that one.

After all of that, I ended with some conditioning - pushups and 4 point crunches. And, finally I did a lot of stretching again. All in all, it was an hour and 20 minutes. And, I barely took any breaks. It was essentially non-stop action.

I am going to be sore tomorrow!