The United States is becoming increasingly full of obese children who risk their health and happiness by being overweight. What better gift can you give to your child than one that teaches and encourages an active life? Not all people who participate in gymnastics are Olympians. In fact very few are.
That does not mean that gymnastics is not for everyone. Participating in classes at CGA teaches children to enjoy physical activity. This love of movement translates into other sports as well as a lifetime of activity. All of our programs keep kids active while they're in the gym but also encourage kids to be active outside of the gym. By teaching children they can be successful at physical skills, it encourages them to get up off the couch and put down their iPads!
Gymnastics produces, pound-for-pound, the best athletes in the world. Gymnastics uses almost exclusively body weight exercises to build upper body, lower body, and core strength. Kids who do gymnastics show off this strength at a young age. It is also great fun for them to hold all of their school records in gym class for push ups, sit ups, and flexed arm hangs. This is something that I think we all wish we had a little more of. Flexibility is important in injury prevention and helping prevent the every day aches and pains.
No sport gives an athlete the flexibility that gymnastics does. Not only is flexibility great for gymnastics, but it aids in the development for other sports as well. Next time you watch a professional sporting event keep an eye out for how flexible the men and women participating are.
At all ages, gymnastics provides an opportunity to develop social skills. Younger children learn how to stand in line, look, listen, be quiet when others are talking, work and think independently, be respectful and others.
The payoff however when things do come together is a big, character building confidence boost. And a confident, hardworking and disciplined athlete is someone a coach in any sport is always looking to add to their team. And that may very well end up being the case for your child, as it has been for so many boys before him. Facebook Google-maps Instagram. The intense movement that takes place in a gym opens up neural pathways in the brain, which can lead to increased concentration, focus and success, not just in the gym but at school and at home.
In order to promote healthy development, it is vital that children recognise how to connect what the brain is saying to what the body is actually doing.
Gymnasts are renowned forhaving an excellent strength-to-weight ratio. Taking part in gymnastics at a young age can help build the foundations of good all-around muscle strength, endurance, and power. Gymnastics also promotes strength of character - with increased activity comes an increase in endorphins, leading to happier more positive feelings. Above all else, participating in gymnastics is fun. Children will love learning how to tumble, flip, swing and make their bodies perform stunts they never thought possible!
In gymnastics, there is always another step to learn and it is therefore possible to learn something new in every class. However, if children try hard they will see progress. The joy of trying, learning and eventually being rewarded for effort is at the heart of persistence.
Resilience A gymnast falling down and getting back up while trying to master a cartwheel is learning resilience. Such an experience builds capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.
Patience Inevitably another child will learn a skill more quickly, or be chosen to lead the line for the day. Gymnastics classes children an opportunity to experience situations which help to cultivate and practice patience. Self-discipline Listening skills, being mindful of others, demonstrating patience are just a few examples of self-disciplinary behaviours and nurtured with great care in gymnastics classes.
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