Why gymnastics?

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Gymnastics is an excellent way to improve children’s physical strength, flexibility, and endurance as well as their mental focus. Gymnastics is also a practice in determination by helping children continually set goals and achieve new skills. The sport of gymnastics is rewarding and fun.

 

Benefits to Gymnastics

• Fitness: Experiencing fun associated with fitness activities early in life can create lifelong positive fitness habits. 

• Mental Focus: Learning how to concentrate on a task and achieving the goal

• Balance: Walking on beams can transfer to riding a bike

• Social Skills: taking turns, working with partners, sharing, making friends and acknowledgment the accomplishments of others

• Strength: climbing on bars and ropes develops muscle strength

• Flexibility: Improved range of motion through stretching and holding body positions

• Burn Calories: and help jump-start a life of fitness

• The Sport of all Sports: gymnastics prepares kids for all sports.

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