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30 Remarkable Benefits of Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a fun and exciting sport with many physical, emotional, and mental benefits for both children and adults. The ancient Greeks first formalized the sport of gymnastics around the 6th Century BC, or even earlier, and included it in the Olympics Games. Today, it is practiced in different parts of the world.

There are so many incredible benefits to gymnastics including increased fitness, flexibility, strength, balance, and confidence. Gymnastics also has mental and health benefits, such as improving the ability to learn, focus, and remember. It has been found to prevent Type-2 diabetes, obesity, and non-hereditary heart disease.

The sport of gymnastics has come a long way, and so has the understanding of the vital role it can play in human development. Let’s take a look at 30 benefits of gymnastics for adults and children. Read more “30 Remarkable Benefits of Gymnastics” →

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Someday she will perform her final cartwheel, back tuck or giant swing.

There will be no more achievement ribbons to earn, compulsories or optional routines.

No coaches wrangling kids into classes, and no judges in blue handing out scores.

And the leotards will be tucked into storage or passed on to former team members.

Someday, for all kids who do the sport, gymnastics will come to an end. For some it may be after a few months, others after years and still others will only put down the grips when college is over or even beyond.

But this I guarantee: at some point everyone who does gymnastics retires.

So, while I am committed to making sure all the kids in my programs get awesome instruction and have a wonderful gymnastics experience, I am even more committed to ensuring that they take with them life lessons that will serve them far beyond the years that they spent in the gym.

After all, if all goes, as it should, a person should spend significantly more time in the post-gymnastics phase of life.

Gymnastics carries young people forward with a number of skills that aid in making them a successful adult. Here are some of them:

Resiliency. You learn the art of resiliency, falling down and getting up over and over again, literally and figuratively. Being passed over for a promotion is disappointing, but so was seeing your best friend get moved up a level ahead of you. You survived that and you will survive this. It won’t cause you to quit, it will cause you to double down and work that much harder.

Why Gymnastics?

IT’S THE FOUNDATION FOR ALL OTHER SPORTS.

Gymnastics teaches kids how to move with confidence and competence – better than any other sport! That’s why it’s not only a great sport on its own, it’s also the ideal springboard to all other sports – a fact that’s recognized by The International Olympic Committee.

Gymnastics teaches the fundamental movement and sports skills that are at the core of every other sport. Fundamental movement skills include skills like climbing, swinging, balancing and landing. It develops the ABCs of athleticism: agility, balance, coordination and speed. In fact, gymnastics is so good at developing these skills that Canadian Sport for Life recommends gymnastics programs as a way to help children learn these skills!

The importance of having fundamental physical skills cannot be overstated. When kids learn these skills, they are developing physical literacy. Experts agree that physical literacy is just as important to a child’s development as learning how to read and write. Read more “Why Gymnastics?” →

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30 Remarkable Benefits of Gymnastics

Gymnasts Salute: 16 Ways Being a Gymnast Made You…

Why Gymnastics?

IT’S THE FOUNDATION FOR ALL OTHER SPORTS.

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