Swapping Gym for Gymnastics & Winning Gold - Nicolai Morris

In this week’s episode Xylon and Dave talk to Nicolai Morris about her work with one of the world’s best high jumpers Nicola Olyslagers and their non-conventional approach to getting Nicola ready for her recent world indoor championships gold medal.  (00:00) Episode Starts (01:00) David and an explanation of high heart rate during training (04:38) Xylon and training and back to back long runs (06:46) Is wrist heart rate reliable? (08:55) Community shoutouts (10:29) Camille Herron update (13:40) Lil Nas X and running NYC half marathon in designer sneakers (15:26) Interview with Nicolai starts (17:33) Why are the team’s Nicolai worked with hated? (19:27) How did Nicolai get into sport? (21:17) How did Nicolai get into strength and conditioning? (22:37) What made Nicolai go into teaching? (24:10) How did Nicolai get into pole vaulting  (27:28) How do you learn to do the pole vault? (29:43) What is Nicolai’s highest pole vault? (31:44) What is talent? (36:06) How did Nicolai start working with Nicola Olyslagers? (39:50) Adding gymnastics and removing traditional strength work from Nicola’s program (47:25) Today’s society, less unstructured play and what this is doing to modern athletes’ movement competencies  (52:26) If designing the perfect curriculum to create the world’s best athletes, what would Niciolai do with children through early adolescence (58:24) Summary  Camille Herron’s IG Post -  https://www.instagram.com/p/C4igR_Nr5Le/?igsh=MWVxdmtzcnhqdXQ0Ng%3D%3D