Coach kids the right way, starting today
Put Me in Coach gives you a complete, practical playbook — skills progressions, safety protocols, inclusive coaching tools, and team culture strategies — so you can walk into any gym, at any level, and actually know what you're doing.
"The coaches who change kids' lives aren't the ones who know the most gymnastics — they're the ones who know how to make every kid feel like they belong in the gym."— Leigh Baumann
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Design age-appropriate practice plans and skill progressions that build confidence and competence for gymnasts from preschool through high school
- Apply the 20% of foundational gymnastics skills that drive 80% of athlete success, using drills and cues proven to accelerate learning
- Create a physically and emotionally safe gym environment — selecting proper equipment, preventing injuries, and responding correctly to sprains, head injuries, and medical emergencies
- Coach the full spectrum of athletes, including beginners, neurodivergent kids, players with disabilities, and those with limited athletic background, using inclusive and adaptive techniques
- Build a positive team culture through effective communication, player rotation strategies, conflict resolution, and consistent positive reinforcement that keeps every child engaged and valued
- Implement youth-protection best practices — maintaining appropriate boundaries, recognizing signs of abuse, understanding mandatory reporting duties, and safeguarding both athletes and yourself
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
6 modules · 28 lessons
Know Yourself, Know Your Athletes
Coaches assess their own experience level, understand child development stages, and tailor their coaching approach to athletes from preschool through high school.
- 1.1Coach Self-Assessment: Where Do You Start?Included
- 1.2How Kids Grow: Development Stages from Age 3 to High SchoolIncluded
- 1.3Age-Group Profiles: Coaching Preschoolers, Elementary, Middle, and High School AthletesIncluded
- 1.4The Coach's Mindset: Developing Kids First, Athletes SecondIncluded
Gymnastics Fundamentals: The Game, the Language, and the Skills That Matter Most
Build a solid working knowledge of gymnastics terminology, rules, equipment, events, and the foundational skills that drive the greatest athlete progress.
- 2.1The Sport Unpacked: Rules, Events, Terminology, and EquipmentIncluded
- 2.2The 20% Skills That Create 80% of SuccessIncluded
- 2.3Teaching Progressions: Breaking Skills into Safe, Learnable StepsIncluded
- 2.4Drills, Cues, and Corrections That Actually WorkIncluded
- 2.5Age-Appropriate Practice Plans and Competitive StrategiesIncluded
Safety First: Equipment, Injury Prevention, and Emergency Response
Equip coaches to create a physically safe gym environment by selecting proper equipment, preventing injuries, and responding confidently to emergencies.
- 3.1Equipment Selection, Inspection, and Safe SetupIncluded
- 3.2Injury Prevention: Warm-Ups, Spotting Technique, and Smart Training LoadsIncluded
- 3.3Recognizing Warning Signs: When to Stop, Refer, or Call for HelpIncluded
- 3.4First Response: Sprains, Broken Bones, Head Injuries, and Medical EmergenciesIncluded
Coaching Every Athlete: Inclusion, Adaptation, and Engagement
Prepare coaches to meet the diverse needs of all athletes — beginners, neurodivergent kids, athletes with disabilities, and everyone in between — using inclusive, adaptive techniques.
- 4.1Meeting Athletes Where They Are: Beginners, Advanced, and Everything BetweenIncluded
- 4.2Coaching Neurodivergent Athletes and Kids with DisabilitiesIncluded
- 4.3Engagement, Attention Spans, and Managing the RoomIncluded
- 4.4Encouraging Effort, Managing Behavior, and Resolving ConflictIncluded
- 4.5Player Rotation, Participation, and Making Every Athlete Feel EssentialIncluded
Building Team Culture: Communication, Confidence, and Community
Help coaches cultivate a positive, inclusive team culture through effective communication, teamwork rituals, parent partnerships, and skill-building beyond the gym.
- 5.1Communicating with Kids: Age-by-Age Coaching LanguageIncluded
- 5.2Positive Reinforcement, Confidence Building, and Growth MindsetIncluded
- 5.3Team-Building Activities That Actually Build TeamsIncluded
- 5.4Partnering with Parents: Expectations, Communication, and Creating SupportersIncluded
- 5.5At-Home Skill Development: Drills and Activities for Athletes and FamiliesIncluded
Youth Protection and Responsible Coaching
Ensure every coach understands their legal and ethical duty to protect young athletes — covering boundaries, abuse recognition, mandatory reporting, and safeguarding best practices.
- 6.1Appropriate Boundaries: Physical, Emotional, and DigitalIncluded
- 6.2Avoiding Risk Situations: The One-on-One Rule and Safe Environment DesignIncluded
- 6.3Recognizing Signs of Abuse, Neglect, and GroomingIncluded
- 6.4Mandatory Reporting: Your Legal Duty and How to Act on ItIncluded
- 6.5Building a Culture of Safety: Policies, Protocols, and Protecting Your ProgramIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
First-time rec coach
Said yes to help out and now needs a real foundation — fast — before the first practice.
PE teacher adding gymnastics
Knows kids and movement, but wants gymnastics-specific progressions, safety protocols, and age-appropriate drills they can trust.
Gymnastics parent turned coach
Watched their kid for years and loves the sport, but needs to bridge the gap between fan and qualified coach.
Church or community league organizer
Running a volunteer-driven program and needs practical tools, safety knowledge, and youth-protection guidance to do it responsibly.
Returning coach leveling up
Has coached before but wants a more structured approach to skill progressions, inclusion, and building real team culture.
School or rec department volunteer
Stepping in to fill a gap and wants to do right by every kid — especially those with different abilities or backgrounds.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Leigh Baumann
Hey coach — welcome. If you're reading this, there's a good chance you're in the middle of that slightly terrifying gap between "I said I'd do this" and "I feel like I actually know how to do this." I've been there. A lot of us have.
Here's what I know: the coaches who show up for youth gymnastics — the volunteers, the PE teachers, the parents who got voluntold, the rec-department staff trying to do right by a room full of kids — are doing some of the most important work in youth sports. Not because gymnastics is the most important sport. Because early, positive coaching experiences shape how kids feel about their own bodies, their own capability, and their own willingness to try hard things for the rest of their lives. That's not small. That's everything.
And yet most of us walk into that gym with maybe a YouTube rabbit hole's worth of preparation and a lot of hope. Put Me in Coach exists because you deserve more than hope. You deserve a real playbook — one that speaks your language, respects your time, and doesn't assume you have a decade of gymnastics background or a coaching certification from a program you've never heard of.
What this school gives you is practical from the first lesson to the last. You'll understand how kids at different ages actually develop — physically and emotionally — and why that changes everything about how you teach. You'll learn the foundational skills and teaching progressions that give young gymnasts the fastest path to real competence, and the drills and verbal cues that make corrections land without crushing confidence. You'll know how to set up a safe gym, respond to injuries, protect your athletes from harm, and handle the full beautiful chaos of a room full of kids with different abilities, different backgrounds, and different needs.
I'm not going to promise you'll never have a rough practice. You will. Every coach does. But I will promise you this: after working through this material, you won't be guessing anymore. You'll have the knowledge, the language, and the tools to walk in with confidence — and to build something genuinely good for the kids in your program. That's the whole point.
Come on in. The gym's ready for you.
— Leigh Baumann
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