CrossFit Gymnastics Trainer Course

I'm really looking forward to attending this course in Montreal, October 13th & 14th!

Jeff R. Tucker, or "Tucker" to those who know him, is the CEO and founder of Global Sports Xtreme (GSX CrossFit) in Fort Worth, Texas, and he has a passion for teaching gymnastics, tumbling and gymnastics strength theory.

At the CrossFit Gymnastics Trainer Course, Coach Tucker or one of his Tier One coaches will delve into basic, intermediate and advanced gymnastics forms in a lecture setting followed by practical application. Skills will be repeated until the student has a full grasp and understanding of how to learn, spot and teach instructed methods safely. Instruction will include how to scale and spot all demonstrated movements for beginners and accomplished athletes.

A wide variety of foundational movements and techniques will be taught, including these and others:

• Basic strength:  development for disadvantaged leverage and basic strength prowess for gymnastics movement.
• Parallette work:  handstands, L-sits, stretching, core control, handstand push-ups, scalability of basic and intermediate movements, spotting, range-of-motion/extreme range of motion training.
• Rings:  core-training exercises, support work, proper hand placement, L-sits, iron-cross progressions, dislocates, presses, muscle-ups and muscle-up drills, self-spotting techniques, kips, handstands, and conditioning.
• Bar variations:  handstands, back levers, skin the cats, L-sit pull-up variations, stretching, kipping swings, spotting techniques, bar muscle-ups, scalability of all movements.
• Handstands:  handstand push-ups, handstand forward rolls, balance work, presses to handstands, L-sits to handstands. How to spot and scale these foundational elements, and learn hand placement, core control, strength development, planches (progressions on floor, rings and paralettes).