Benefits of Gymnastics

Physical Benefits: 

Gymnastics training uses every muscle of the body! Gymnasts are renowned for their symmetrical, strong and powerful bodies.  Try it for yourself, or your child. All sessions use a range of skills every class to get the body moving. Not only do sessions burn off energy, they also meet the Australian Guidelines (for children and adults) of recommended, daily 60 minutes of physical activity. 

 

Programs seek to teach, assist and improve many of the highly sort after skill sets :

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• Agility

• Balance

• Control

• Core mobility/Strength

• Courage 

• Coordination / Timing / Rhythm

• Creativity/ Dance/ Grace/ Poise

• Discipline

• Flexibility 

• Focus

• Grip strength 

• Injury prevention

• Muscle tone

• Posture

• Power 

• Safe landings 

• Strength

• Self-esteem 

• Speed 

• Spatial awareness

• Team work

Did you know doing gymnastics for one year increases the bone density of an athlete and stays with them life long?

 This is because the running, jumping and landing activities in gym sports subjects the body to shock high forces(between 4 - 12 times body weight, depending on the skill, height and apparatus surface). These high forces allows the bones to strengthen. This shouldn't sound scary as it is absolutely vital for children to be exposed to this in their development years, especially females. This impact based training, even over as short as one year can/will assist in prevention of osteoporosis (weakening of the bones)!

Accredited specialist coaches:

The coaches are not your average Joe. They highly skilled and trained employees of Maryborough GymSports. They undergo stringent training and hold current accreditations with the governing bodies of Gymnastics Australia and Gymnastics Queensland. 
 

Coaches:​

• Are specialised in one or many disciplines of gymnastics. They must be accredited in order to teach that discipline.

• Hold valid blue cards and usually have first aid/CPR training

• Are registered technical members of Gymnastics Australia

• Must annually update with recognised courses in order to remain coaching

• Plan and present progressive lesson plans

• Constantly monitor safety

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Behaviour and school

Regular exposure physical activity in sports sports has shown to improve children's behaviour and academic marks. This is because regular physical activity allows students to focus on the task assigned.

 

Participation in regular, organised sports has also been linked to discouraging harmful activities because young people who are consistently physically active are much less likely to engage in using tobacco, alcohol, or other drugs as they grow and mature.

Life Skills
Gymnastics assists students to learn many important life skills such as self-confidence, resilience, integrity, goal setting, time  dedication, focus and hard work! As training and school demands increase, a young person must also learn the vital skill of time management. 

 

Safe Landings 

Children are taught from a young age how to land safely! This assists in injury prevention as one can get themselves out of a sticky situation before it happens. Correct and guided repetition build the neural pathways to connect the body to mind, so it recognises what it has to do in order to save itself correctly, thus assisting to prevent injury.

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Safe Environment

Being part of a Gymnastics Australia / QLD affiliated club means the club implements and follows the Club 10 Quality Assurance Program guidelines. 

All of these processes contribute towards Gymnastics being one of the top safest sports in Australia and Queensland!
 

Apparatus Benefits

 

• Gymnastics teaches creativity, flexibility, and coordination. 

• Parallel Bars sharpen focus and build self-esteem. 

• Vault and Double mini gives young athletes a running start toward skills like take off, speed, agility and power to get a powerful take off. 

• Rings help kids soar by teaching grip, strength and control. 

• High Bar is an exercise in manual dexterity and precision, as well as grip, courage and strength. 

• Floor helps with poise, rhythm, dance, and self-confidence. 

• Trampoline gives  a jump on valuable skills like spatial awareness, rotation, take off, landing and control. 

• Pommel Horse develops core mobility, rhythm, and timing. 

• Balance Beam instils grace, poise, and of course, balance.

• Power tumbling assists with agility, speed rotation, spring, landing and timing
  
  There are so many more benefits listed here: 50 reasons to do Gymsports