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Travis Ewart

A gymnastics coach since 1996, Travis has coached competitive and recreational gymnastics at numerous clubs both Northern and Southern California, producing winning teams, athletes of college scholarships and has influenced thousands of happy kids, teens and young adults.

Prior to the 2015 CrossFit Games, Travis was approached by Invictus to give coaching to the Invictus Games team and athletes. He then fell in love with Invictus and the Sea of Green community and accepted the position of Gymnastics Specialist Coach in September of 2015. Travis now works with clients in-house from children to beginning-level adult athletes to CrossFit Games athletes.

3 Variations of Toes-to-Bar

3 Variations of Toes-to-Bar
Video by Travis Ewart

This video reviews a few different variations for executing toes-to-bar. Every athlete needs to practice different variations of toes-to-bar so that they know which style they prefer based on the workout. The 3 variations in the video are:

1) Straight Leg Swing

Make sure your hamstrings are prepped for this! This style of leg swing will carry much momentum through the forward swing. It also won’t require as much lat engagement as some of the other variations so, for higher volume toes-to-bar, this is a great option.

What Are Toes-to-Bar?

What Are Toes-to-Bar?
Contributing Authors: Brittany Weiss, Michele Vieux & Travis Ewart

A toes-to-bar is put together exactly how it is read. It’s pretty much the queen of all leg raises. You bring your toes to the bar while hanging of course! It’s not one of the highly technical movements you could see come up in a workout but there are some things you should keep in mind while trying to achieve your first one, all the way to stringing them together in workouts. Toes-to-bar is a great movement for developing full body strength.

Quality Gymnastics Skills Practice

Quality Gymnastics Skills Practice
Written by Nichole DeHart

I love learning new skills. I really love seeing other people learn new skills. It is one of the highlights as a coach, to see someone have that moment when it ‘clicks’ and they figure out how to do something they’ve been working on for a long time. We probably see this the most with movements like muscle-ups, bar muscle-ups, strict handstand push-ups and other gymnastic-type movements.

However, there is something I see all too often with people when they learn a new skill.

Checklist for Building Baseline Gymnastics Strength

Checklist for Building Baseline Gymnastics Strength
Written by Travis Ewart

There are many great coaches out there giving their newest members the tools they need to succeed in all aspects of CrossFit, but oddly there seems to be a bit of a lack of focus on the fundamentals for kipping movements and inverted (handstand) movements. As the Invictus Gymnastics coach, my goal is to give some very simple directions to help slowly and safely lead your aspiring athlete toward their body weight goals and to create a standard for all coaches and athletes to take into consideration.

Reverse Snow Angels – Purveyors of Posture

Reverse Snow Angels – Purveyors of Posture
Video by Travis Ewart

Sitting at a desk too much? How is your posture as you read this? The dreaded “shoulder roll” is easy to spot, not only because of the evident poor posture but also because with the introduction of technology to the world, we have become accustomed to leaning forward in our seats to take a better look at the screen or to check our phones, and it’s an epidemic!

Take a look at these Reverse Snow Angels and give them a try at home.

Gymnastics Strength, Timing & Range of Motion

Gymnastics Strength, Timing & Range of Motion
Written by Travis Ewart

When learning the movement pattern for any kipping gymnastics movement, it’s best to take the approach of the greater range of motion, which just happens to be the way the skills are taught in the Invictus Gymnastics online program. The skills in the program require less base strength, so you can start kipping safely, and the larger movement pattern is much easier to learn and fix (as body positions are much easier to discern when they are larger and slower movements).

When it comes to kipping movements in CrossFit,

Don’t Wait for the Last Minute to Develop Your Skills!

The Open is WHEN?? Don’t Wait for the Last Minute to Develop Your Skills!
Written by Travis Ewart

Each year it happens – the CrossFit Games Open. Each year since I joined Invictus I have seen it come, hang around for a few weeks, watch people beat themselves up trying to get just that muscle-up or a little bit more fit, and each year I am less than surprised when people approach me regarding their gymnastics skills.

Understanding Where Gymnastics Fits In

I feel that now more than ever people need to remind themselves of the pyramid that CrossFit is based on.

Coach’s Tips: Creating Your CHIMA

Coach’s Tips: Creating Your CHIMA
Written by Travis Ewart

Saying that being a “good” coach can be an understatement. The term “good” is definitely subjective, but one of the concepts I use is based around the athlete, not necessarily myself.

Of course we always need to be a better coach, day after day, but if you follow some general guidelines to creating the ideal athlete client, then it will in turn require more of you, so in a certain respect you can’t create the ideal athlete if you aren’t quite up to par as a coach.

How to Become a Wall Baller in 3 Simple Steps

How to Become a Wall Baller in 3 Simple Steps
Written by Kaitlyn Kassis

The keys to becoming a baller at wall balls – a Wall Baller – is 1) to be able to identify the common faults in the movement and whether you are falling victim to any of them; and then 2) know how to fix your issue(s). This might take a little help to identify and a little practice to fix, but here’s my list of the common faults when performing wall balls and what to do about them.

1) Ball Positioning
The most crucial component of wall ball efficiency is the position from which the athlete catches and throws the ball.

Learning from a Muscle-Up Attempt

Learning from a Muscle-Up Attempt
Video Analysis by Travis Ewart

Recently a member of the Invictus Gymnastics Program posted a video of her muscle-up attempt in the Invictus Gymnastics Facebook Group to receive feedback from Coach Travis Ewart. One of the benefits of the program is that Travis takes a lot of time coaching people virtually who reach out and ask for help.

We wanted to share it with you all because his explanation is gold and he even took the time to screen shot her video and doodle-analysis on it to better describe what he’s talking about in his coaching notes.

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