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Gymnastics
As educated adults in today's world, most of us already know the importance of physical activity in a child's life. As we become more aware of the need for physical activity, schools have had to cut back on physical education and time due to budgetary constraints and mandated testing requirements. Statistics show that children are becoming more overweight and more sedentary than ever, causing more health issues.
Luckily we at New Heights Gym offer several options. Any one of our programs provide great physical activity while stimulating their brains, social skills, personal development, and a sense of well-being all at the same time.
Every sport we teach at our facility utilizes gymnastics. Gymnastics, a total body sport, is the basic body training for all physical movement. Every part of the body is used when doing gymnastics. It is a sports program designed to teach the basic fundamental motor skills required in any sport and in every day activity. Gymnastics develops athletes through systematic progressions of abilities. Gymnastics is about personal growth, personal success, and personal development at all levels.
The keys to successful gymnastics are: Focus, Flexibility, Strength, Discipline, and Consistency. Coaches can train and show gymnasts how to gain flexibility, strength, and consistency. But it is up to the gymnast to have the desire to learn focus and discipline.
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ocus and Discipline are needed to keep our students safe and un-injured. Flexibility and Strength are needed to help them learn and be able to perform their skills. And Consistency helps them progress to the next level.
If any one of those key elements are left out, then they will not be the best gymnast they can be.
Our gymnastics program consists of three phases of gymnastics: Pre-School Gymnastics, Recreational Gymnastics, and Competitive Gymnastics. Our Pre-School Gymnastics Program consists of two age groups: Tiny Tots for ages 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 and KinderGym for ages 3-1/2 to 4-1/2. One of the major reasons parents enroll their children in PreSchool Gymnastics is for the enhancement of motor skills development, coordination, balance, agility, and strength. Besides the physical developments, gymnastics encourages development of intellectual, emotional, and social skills. For young children gymnastics provides an opportunity to explore movement in a non-competitive atmosphere while teaching them to focus, follow directions, and to be patient.
Recreational Gymnastics is the same USAG formatted gymnastics program as Competitive Gymnastics, but without the contracts, commitments, and competitions. Our Recreational Gymnastics Program is designed to allow gymnasts to do gymnastics in a progressive mode without the competitive atmosphere. Some gymnasts choose to participate in Recreational Gymnastics for the great overall body conditioning, or for the structure and discipline, or with hopes to advance to Team, or just for the love of the sport. No matter if a gymnast ever competes or not, that athlete is still considered a gymnast and he/she should be proud of what they can do. It makes no difference if the gymnast is recreational or competitive; all gymnasts are important parts of the gymnastics community and of our gym.
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