Review the Progressions Daily
 Every day, even with old skills, a modified (shortened) equipment progression beginning on the line on the floor is used to check for proper technique and consistency.

Planned Competition Warm-Up
 A warm up equipment progression should be planned for competition warm ups.  With limited time for warm up, gymnasts may be instructed to warm up skills on a line at the end of their previous event to save timed warm ups for high beam warm up.  They may also be given a practiced warm up sequence with 1-3 elements on a floor line and then right up to the high beam. 

Be Ready for No Warm-Up
 Coaches should attempt to schedule their gymnasts' beam warm up so their gymnasts doing harder difficulty skills have more time to warm up them up on floor lines and low beams.  This does not mean that any gymnast should become dependent on having any more than the minute or minute and a half allotted by the rules to warm up.

Eliminates Fear
 Fear is often the limiting factor in beam skill development and determining the danger points and training for their safety often eliminates fear from the equation.  If, however, there are other fears, additional progressions to eliminate or minimize their impact on the gymnast can be developed specifically to deal with that fear. 

Yesterday’s Workout and One Step More
 Some days it may take only a few short warm up progressions to reach a comfort level and some days it may take exhaustive preparation.  The end result is that each day it is possible to reach their previous level and add one more small step.  This is the basis for long term progress.

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