How to increase stamina: -especially important for the elite level, for the new code of points, increasing the number of floor tumbling passes from 4 to 5, to 6 or 7 for guys, and longer bars routine, pommel horse routine, etc. Vault is same length lol, but harder skills -Running -Ice Skating - instead of running and it's fun, probably less impact on your knees (not sure, not a doctor!) -Going through routines -Conditioning that is longer and longer in a row, less breaks = more stamina Anybody got any more?

jump roping is good too. when you do it on the beam, it's good for balance too! :D

Trampoline is a good way to increase stamina too - jumping and also doing basic skills in a row. In general, add more and more skills to do in a row, take less breaks in between coditioning and skills, etc.

two types of running: long-distance(steady miles) sprint training-like doing a 250, a 350, a 450, a 450, a350 , and a 250 (meters that is). With steady rest time in between-no more than 20 seconds. Personally, I think sprint training helps A LOT more.

trampoline is also a good fun way to do leg conditioning w/o the impact to your knees and back. here's what the hamm twins wrote in their guestbook on their web on this: [quote]Mostly we do mutliple routines back to back to build endurance, but we also do "cross-train." And, yes, we do work on our endurance at the track. Take a look at the the June Video Calendar and watch the June 21st video - "Hitting The Track." It's horribly difficult, but we do it. Paul and Morgan[/quote]

Short on time? Here's one we did from track; it takes exactly ten minutes and is so hard that a few of our members didn't finish. You sprint 100 meters, than hustle back. You have one minute and whatever is left is rest time. Once it clocks out at one minute, you start sprinting again. You do it ten times. Warning: The first four are failry easy. The sixth is the hardest. If you can push through number six, you'll finish. Sometimes we would do "the 10-minute workout" , take five minutes of rest, and then do it again.

you could also put on waist weights - the kind that are flat metal are good, don't stick/jab into you.