
- It’s fun
- Develops strength
- Develops flexibility
- Develops coordination
- Teaches listening skills
- Gains self-esteem and confidence
- Provides social interaction with peers
- Teaches goal setting
- Develops cognitive abilities to help in the classroom
- Develops skills to enhance other sports
Gymnastics is an amazing developmental sport that has a
profound impact on a child’s whole well-being. It benefits your child
physically, academically and socially. Gymnastics provides the proper athletic
foundations for all sporting endeavors. It helps increase flexibility,
strength, speed, agility, coordination and balance. Also being physically
active in gymnastics may prevent obesity, some types of cancer, and helps blood
pressure and bone density. Active children tend to grow up to become active and
healthy teens and adults.
Gymnastics has many other benefits that may not be as
obvious as the physical ones. It can help your child outside of the gym too!
Since gymnastics is a developmental sport it builds skills through progression
of steps. This helps improve your child’s concentration which can help them
with problem solving, math and reading in school. Gymnastics requires children
to not only use both side of their brain separately, but it also requires both sides
to work at the same time together! This is very beneficial for your child.
Gymnastics also helps enhance children’s social skills.
During a class children will observe, practice waiting their turn, follow
directions, respect other and listen. All of these skills are very important
for a child to practice to enhance their social skills. As a child achieves
skills and is encouraged by their coach they increase their self esteem, gain a
sense of control over their body’s movements which increases healthy self
empowerment and body awareness.
Children of all ages can reap the benefits from gymnastics.
Now is the time to enroll your child so they can experience all the benefits
gymnastics has to offer. The best part of gymnastics is that your child will be
having so much fun they won’t even realize how much they are learning in the
process!