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 About the Author
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Karen Goeller is the author of *more
gymnastics books than anyone in the USA!
Karen Goeller has a career in gymnastics spanning
over thirty years, twenty-five of which were spent coaching competitive
athletes. Karen Goeller is the author of more
gymnastics books than anyone in the USA. She has spent a lifetime refining her
skills as a gymnast, coach, and business owner. Karen Goeller is bursting with
information that she needs to share with you!
Karen has produced NY State Champions,
National TOPS Team Athletes, National Level Competitors, and Empire State Games
Athletes. Three National Champions are from her gym. One staff member was
the 1996 USATT National Champion and two were gymnasts who trained with Karen
for the majority of their gymnastics careers. One level 10 uneven bars champion and one
level 10 balance beam champion.
 Karen
Goeller and
her athletes have been featured regularly in the media including on Good
Morning America, GoodDay NY, Eyewitness News, and NY Views (old show)
among others. They have also been featured
in The New York Times, NY Newsday, Brooklyn Bridge Magazine, and Interview
Magazine as well as in numerous neighborhood newspapers including the Brooklyn
Heights Press, Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Courier, Bay News, and the Spring
Creek Sun . More recently Karen Goeller has been featured in the Asbury
Park Press, Observer/Reporter, Staten Island Advance, and Inside Gymnastics
Magazine.
She
considers it a privilege to have worked at Karolyi's Camp, TX for seven summers
as well as at USGTC and IGC for a decade of Holiday Clinics. Working at
these camps along with attending many USA Gymnastics events such as Regional
Congress and the National TOPS Training Camp have all been contributing factors
to her vast knowledge of the sport. Karen feels the knowledge she gained as an
employee of Paul Spadaro, Bela Karolyi, Mike Jacobson, and Bruno Klaus has
really helped enable her to produce several successful gymnasts.
 Before
earning her BA Degree, Karen's education included training as an EMT, Physical
Therapist, and Nutritionist. She has held certifications such as EMT-D,
Nutritional Analysis, Fitness Trainer, Counseling Techniques, Childcare Fundamentals, USAG Safety
Certification, USAG Meet Director, and USAG Skill Evaluator among others.
Gymnastics and Fitness Books by Karen Goeller
Karen Goeller's first book was, "Over 75
Drills and Conditioning Exercises." This book
was written after Karen was in an accident and could no longer coach as she knew
it. She needed a way to train a YMCA coaching staff even though she could no
longer be physically active. Karen wrote and hand illustrated the drills and
conditioning exercises so the staff would have a clear picture of which drills,
conditioning exercises, and skills should be performed during their classes.
This group worked so well with the hand written training manual that Karen
decided to make the information available to other gymnastics coaches. At that
point she entered the information and created the illustrations on her computer.
This is what was to become her first published book, "Over 75 Drills and
Conditioning Exercises."
 Karen Goeller sold this book through the internet to
coaches and trainers all over the world, including coaches in the United
Kingdom, China, Japan, Australia, Austria, Netherlands, and Canada among other
places. We have been told this book was used to write the CrossFit Training
Program. It has been used by gymnastics coaches, fitness experts, physical
education teachers, the creator of the CrossFit Training Program, and a former
Olympic Judo Coach among many others.
Karen Goeller received a tremendous amount of
feedback with praise and compliments on her first drills book, which was more
than enough encouragement for her to grow her collection to the current total of
more than 16
published books. Make sure you visit us again so that you can see the available
books from this knowledgeable and committed coach and trainer.
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training with Karen in NJ
List of books by Karen Goeller that are currently
available...
1) Gymnastics Drills and Conditioning
Exercises (978-1-4116-0579-4)
Over 100 drills and conditioning exercises in this book. Appropriate for
developing gymnasts.
Topics: Running, Vault, Bars, Dance, Press Handstand
2) Gymnastics Drills and Conditioning for the Handstand
(978-1-4116-5000-8)
Appropriate for most gymnasts because of the body tightness drills.
Topics: Learning Body Tightness, Handstand Shape, Tightness in Motion and More!
3) Gymnastics Drills… Walkover, Limber, and Back Handspring
(978-1-4116-1160-3)
Appropriate for most gymnasts. The walkover drills can be performed by high
level gymnasts to help maintain flexibility and alignment as well as gymnasts
learning the basic skills.
4) Gymnastics Conditioning for the Legs and Ankles
(978-1-4116-2033-9) (Available in Print and E-Book)
Appropriate for gymnasts of most levels in order to maintain lower body
strength. Increase difficulty by increasing weight used.
5) Gymnastics Journal… My Scores, My Goals, My Dreams
(978-1-4116-4145-7)
Appropriate for all competitive levels. It inspires gymnast to set reasonable
short and long term goals.
6) The Most Frequently Asked Questions about Gymnastics
(1-59113-372-6) (Available in Print and E-Book)
Guide for gymnastics parents and competitive gymnasts.
7) Fitness Journal: My Goals, My Training, My
Success (9781847284440)
Record workouts, goals, and meals. Useful for people who need motivation or take
fitness seriously!
8) Strength Training Journal
Record your workouts as you complete them. Great for
college athletes, bodybuilders, fitness enthusiasts.
9) Gymnastics Conditioning Programs: Five
Conditioning Workouts! (E-Book)
Topics include
endurance, core, upper body for uneven bars, and more.
10)
Gymnastics Conditioning: Tumbling Conditioning
(Available in Print and E-Book)
Tumbling Conditioning
has conditioning for twisting, body tightness, upper body strength, plyometrics,
and more.
11) Fitness
Program: Strength Training and Core (E-Book)
Two workouts: The
first is full body strength training using dumbbells. The second is light
conditioning, mostly core.
12) Fitness
Program: General Conditioning with Dumbbells (E-Book)
The exercises are
basic and this program is great for the person who would like to become fit and
maintain a good fitness level.
13)
Fitness Program:
General Conditioning with Dumbbells and Fitness Ball (E-Book)
This program is a
great program to gain and maintain fitness for daily activity.
14) Fitness on a
Swing Set! (ISBN: 978-0-6151-4788-8)
Nearly 50 exercises that take place on a playground
swing! It's time for a change...)
15) Swing Set
Workouts (ISBN: 978-0-6151-5170-0)
Several workouts that range in difficulty. They all
take place on a playground swing! It's time for a change...)
16) Fitness on a
Swing Set with Training Programs (ISBN:
978-0-6151-5028-4)
Nearly 50 exercises and several workouts that take
place on a playground swing! Combined book of other two swing set books.)
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