Wendy Hilliard - USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame member, the first Black rhythmic gymnast to represent Team USA, former Women's Sports Foundation president, and founder of the Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation - joins Better Late to talk about training elite athletes and developmental gymnasts, how the private gym school model affects access to gymnastics, age limits, Simone Biles, and what it REALLY takes to be an elite gymnast.

Hayley Silberg discovered gymnaestrada as a coach in Canada, and she started CAPTivate Gymnastics to bring it to adults. Hayley joins Better Late to talk about how she's built a business with not just one but seven teams in Calgary, how the insurance structure in Canada makes it possible without owning a facility, and her plans to scale. Plus, she talks about being a coach, athlete, mom, business owner and engineer all at the same time.

Liz Albert didn't make it to the elite level by the time she was a senior in high school, so she made an unusual choice to make it there. She joins Better Late to talk about why she turned down four college gymnastics scholarships, how gymnastics healed her after a life-threatening condition, training now alongside her elite-in-training daughter, and her ideas on a pro gymnastics sports league.

When Hai-Yue Han and Kat Han found themselves without a gym to train in, they decided all they needed was insurance and a place to practice. The Hans join Better Late to talk about building the Silicon Valley Gymnastics Club as a nonprofit organization and why the nonprofit model works. Plus, they talk about how they work with other gyms in the Bay Area, training through COVID, how insurance works, and more.

Texas Tech professor Sara Norman hadn't done gymnastics in 14 years when she discovered that her faculty ID meant she could train and compete with the college club team. Four years later, she's training continuing a unique adult gymnastics journey as she trains alongside students. Sara joins Better Late to talk about her unconventional college gymnastics path, being a quiet advocate for adult gymnastics, getting past body image issues, and her workout routine.

In part 2 of a two-part interview, Michelle Carhart, coach and owner of Dynamite Gymnastics in Maryland, joins Better Late to discuss how she's helped adult and youth gymnasts alike fix skills and overcome mental blocks and fear. Plus, learn more about the adult team at Dynamite Gymnastics!

Michelle Carhart, coach and owner of Dynamite Gymnastics in Maryland, joins Better Late to discuss the four essential aspects of coaching gymnasts, why she believes that every gymnast is trainable, overcoming the coach's ego, and more. Part 1 of a 2-part interview.

2008 Olympian and 2005 World Champion Chellsie Memmel joins the Better Late podcast with Pam Majumdar to talk about how her gymnastics comeback began, influence of the pandemic, transitioning from the gymnast’s identity, and her thoughts on adult gymnastics. Chellsie also shares her conditioning, prehab, flexibility, and recovery routines, how becoming a judge has changed her gymnastics, and more.

Should women's gymnastics look more like men's gymnastics in the U.S.? Why do men have a longer career path than women in artistic gymnastics? Stanford Gymnastics alum and former senior national team member Josh Dixon joins Better Late to talk about his path from JO to NCAA back to the national team, how his perspective on training shifted during his NCAA career, why he never felt burnout, the ideal male body type(s), and more.

When COVID-19 hit, a lot of adult gymnastics had to reconsider their training. UK gymnast Kat Pugh also started thinking about adult gymnastics' future - will adult gymnastics programming survive limited capacities and the shifts in gym priorities? Kat joins Better Late to talk about COVID-19's lasting impact on her training and how she's trying to bring more attention to adult gymnastics during the transition back to a new normal.