Plan Every Practice
Plan every practice.  Have information and pre-prepared workout for each optional gymnast and gymnastics level available.  Your planning time is part of your job responsibilities.

Reevaluate Progress and Plan Daily
 Establish a planning period every morning or evening.  Evaluate progress towards goals and the importance of tasks, rank them and fit them into the next day's hourly schedule.  (Day Planner - Daily or Weekly style.)
Track Progress and Consistency
Track gymnast’s skill and routine consistency and adapt practice to maximize improvement.

Make a Step of Progress Every Day with Every Gymnast
Your responsibility as a coach is to teach them something new every day and every class.  Review basics, review last week’s new skills, teach a new skill.

Review, Practice, Prepare for the Future
Everyday possible teach on three levels.  Review basics, work at their current level and teach new, future optional skill.

Vary Practices
When a gymnast has done the same things in class over and over again each week, the gymnast will lose interest.  Every class should be different and every effort should be made to do different things each week.  Different warm-ups, different skills, different event rotation, contests, competitions, use of different matting (up, down inclines, over obstacles, etc.).

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