Built on Less: Aimee Boorman, Simone Biles' Coach
Simone Biles trained about twenty hours a week at fourteen. Aimee Boorman, the coach who set that number, explains why it was not forty.
Aimee met Simone in 2003, when Simone was six years old, at Bannon's Gymnastix in Houston, and coached her for the next thirteen years: three world all-around titles, four Olympic gold medals in Rio, and never more than thirty-two hours a week in the gym. She is a four-time USA Gymnastics Coach of the Year, the 2016 U.S. Olympic Committee Coach of the Year, an FIG brevet judge, and the author of The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles, with a foreword by…
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