Enrollment

Enroll your Child in one of our dedicated programs!

We have the programs your child will love! We have Gymnastics, Dance, cheer and tumbling! Enroll your child today!

About our Gymnastics Team

Academy West Gymnastics began as a backyard operation before officially opening it's doors in 1998 with 50 students. In the last decade it has grown to become an award winning gymnastics program specially tailored to identify and enhance the talents of each individual student.

The coaches are USA Gymnastics and CPR certified and continually train to provide the best educational experience.

For more information about our classes, call 801-282-133

Team Building for Cheerleading

Team Building - Like all team sports, cheerleading offers more than physical benefits. Sports can help teach kids essential life skills, including teamwork, discipline, and communication. Squad members must rely on each other for the effectiveness of routines, as well as ensuring each other's safety during difficult moves. If competition against other squads is involved, it becomes even more important to work together as a unified front.

What is GALS?

Come and see what all the FUN is about!

GALS is a variety of Adult Fitness Classes including:

Total Body Tabata is high intensity interval training designed to improve cardio, stamina, muscle sculpt in 20 sec. bursts with 10 sec rests.

Zum-Bata is a combination of Zumba and Tabata and designed to improve endurance, cardio and stamina while sculpting all muscle groups.

Shockwave is an interval training class designed for full body which includes body weight and equipment.

Barre-Bata is a combination of the ballet barre and Tabata designed to create long, lean muscles.

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Top 4 Health Benefits of Dance

Dancing is a great way for people of all ages to get and stay in shape. Besides being fun, dancing has many positive health benefits. Following are the top 4 health benefits of dance.

1. Flexibility

Flexibility is an important part of being healthy. Dance requires a great amount of flexibility. Most dance classes begin with a warm-up including several stretching exercises. Dancers must strive to achieve full range of motion for all the major muscle groups. The greater the range of motion, the more muscles can flex and extend. Most forms of dance require dancers to perform moves that require bending and stretching, so dancers naturally become more flexible by simply dancing.

2. Strength

Strength is defined as the ability of a muscle to exert a force against resistance. Dancing builds strength by forcing the muscles to resist against a dancer's own body weight. Many styles of dance, including jazz and ballet, require jumping and leaping high into the air. Jumping and leaping require tremendous strength of the major leg muscles. Ballroom dancing builds strength. Consider the muscle mass a male ballroom dancer develops by lifting his partner above his head!

3. Endurance

Dance is physical exercise. Exercise increases endurance. Endurance is the ability of muscles to work hard for increasingly longer periods of time without fatigue. Regular dancing is great for improving endurance, especially vigorous dancing such as line and ballroom dancing. Elevating the heart rate can increase stamina. Just as in any form of exercise, regular dancing will build endurance.

4. Sense of Well-Being

Dancing is a social activity. Studies have shown that strong social ties and socializing with friends contribute to high self-esteem and a positive outlook. Dancing provides many opportunities to meet other people. Joining a dance class can increase self-confidence and build social skills. Because physical activity reduces stress and tension, regular dancing gives an overall sense of well-being.

The Benefits of Gymnastics For Kids

Why should I enroll my children in gymnastics? Here are 10 excellent ways boys and girls of all ages benefit from gymnastics from the USA Gymnastics’ Guide:

• 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!