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From
toddlers, thru adolescence and beyond…
WHY GYMNASTICS
Gymnastics activity subjects a child’s body to a wide variety of
stimuli, offering a complete, total body workout, with a high
emphasis on core strength, involving all of the main
muscle groups, while improving all gross motor skills. It
is designed to build strong bones, strong muscles, and strong minds.
Gymnastics can provide opportunities for physical development, character
development, and education that are hard to find anywhere else, with
children gaining body-awareness
as they learn to exercise their bodies as well as
their minds.
Gymnastics
is perhaps one of the most comprehensive “lifestyle exercise
programs” available to children, incorporating strength, flexibility,
a sense of rhythm,
speed, balance, coordination, power,
and injury preventing agility and grace,
not to mention
commitment, discipline,
focus, poise,
self-control, confidence, perseverance, creativity, and goal-setting.
Gymnastics
is a great foundation for any child,
no matter what sport he or she decides to pursue.
Due to the multiple skills necessary of a gymnast, time spent in
gymnastics, especially by younger children, can contribute to
success in other activities, without the contact inherent in
other sports.
Gymnastics
is a reasonably safe sport
and although there are numerous sources of information on injury in
sport, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission is one of the best. In
one of their recent studies of injuries related to a sports activity, it
showed that gymnastics ranked 24th in terms of emergency room
visits, well behind activities like football, basketball, soccer,
wrestling, track, baseball, volleyball, hockey, and even cheerleading.
(Interesting enough, in a comprehensive study done from 1990-2002, the
USPSC, through their National Electronic Injury Surveillance System for
children aged 5-18, found that cheerleading injuries have been
increasing by 110%, with over 16,000 cheerleading injuries being
reported per year!)
Pound
for pound, gymnasts are amongst the strongest and most flexible of all
athletes.
Strength
is one of the major redeeming characteristics of gymnastics. From
research done in various publications, including the British Journal of
Sports Medicine, gymnasts
tend to develop upper body strength more than athletes in most other
sports.
The
flexibility demands of gymnastics are probably the most significant and
unique aspects of gymnastics and serves to separate gymnastics from most
other sports. Flexibility is emphasized in gymnastics due to the need
for gymnasts to adopt certain positions in order to perform skills. Increased
flexibility helps an athlete limit the possibility of injury.
Gymnastics also teaches youths to fall without hurting themselves. The
first skill any child is taught in gymnastics is how to roll.
Considerable effort is expended in the early teaching of gymnasts to
roll - partly as a skill in itself and partly as a prerequisite to other
skills. Learning
to fall and fall training can help prevent injuries in most sports.
As
children become stronger, more flexible and fit, their performance in
all sports will improve, while they will also become less susceptible to
injury.
Extensive
research has been done showing that lifting one’s own body weight
through progressive training is the best way to train. Gymnastics is a
weight bearing exercise that can improve bone mineral density as
it provides mechanical loads to the skeleton that helps stimulate
mineralizing of the bones. It
has been proven by the New England Sports Medicine Journal that
gymnastics increases more bone density than any other sport training.
Extended
participation in gymnastics classes provides children with many
physical, cognitive and psychological benefits. Skills children gain
from participation in gymnastics will continue benefiting them
throughout their lives.
Studies
show that children learn cognitive skills more effectively in an
environment that includes both body and mind. Gymnastics and
early childhood movement education is directly attributed to developing
neurological pathways in students and promoting reading readiness.
Amongst
research, including a NASA study, thru statistics from the National
Association of Collegiate Gymnastics, it proves that gymnasts tend to
do very well in school. (College graduation rates for gymnasts
exceed 90%!)
Children
who have participated in movement education activities like gymnastics
have: longer attention spans, increased communications skills, better
school attendance,
general problem solving skills,
lower anxiety and depression,
and improved self-esteem.
Building
of higher self-esteem fosters a child’s ability to face new challenges
more confidently, as they are pleased with themselves, can function
independently, and are self-reliant.
Participation
in gymnastics helps the children learn to listen and follow directions,
while working towards the ability to implement instructions
independently.
Gymnastics
is also an excellent training ground for social interaction within peer
groups,
the opportunity to be with friends, or make new ones, while teaching
children how to deal with success and failure in life. The
feelings of accomplishment children experience from improved performance
often carries over to other areas of their lives. As they expect success
from themselves, they work harder and with greater effort towards
accomplishing their goals.
Gymnastics
helps people learn to work hard for objectives that can take years to
achieve.
Most gymnasts pursue success rather than avoid failure. This provides a
solid foundation for school, other sports, work or study habits, and for
the rest of their life.
Study
after study confirm that children involved in gymnastics, are more
likely to avoid tobacco, alcohol, and drugs, score higher on achievement
tests, stay in school, have greater self-esteem and live healthier
lifestyles.
Gymnastics
is a terrific sport for young people
as it keeps our kids off the couch, away from the TV and computer, while
being engaged in a healthy activity, and all the time…..… BEING
FUN!
WHY EXTREME GYMNASTICS
THE AREA’S MOST QUALIFIED,
EXPERIENCED STAFF, WITH OVER A 100 YEARS
COMBINED EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH CHILDREN, RANGING FROM A COACH
OF 45 STATE CHAMPIONS, TO HAVING 5, CURRENT OR
FORMER HEAD, HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASTICS COACHES AMONGST OUR TEACHERS
EXCEPTIONALLY
CLEAN, HEALTH-CONSCIOUS FACILITY,
FROM THE MATS, TO THE FLOOR, TO THE PIT, TO THE AIR-QUALITY
VERY ACTIVE, YET
SMALLER, MORE ORGANIZED CLASSES WITH COACH TO KID RATIOS LOWER THAN
INDUSTRY GUIDELINES
SPACIOUS CLASS
ROTATIONS WITHOUT
OVERCROWDING ON THE FLOOR OR EVENTS
NURTURING, CARING
INSTRUCTORS, WITH SEVERAL BEING CERTIFIED EDUCATORS;
TEACHERS IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS, WITH OTHERS INVOLVED IN CHILD
CARE STUDIES
SOUND, SAFE
CURRICULUM, AS SKILLS ARE
TAUGHT IN A PROGRESSIVE MANNER, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON FUNDAMENTALS
CONSTANT AND
CONTINUAL EVALUATION OF STUDENTS’ SKILLS, ALWAYS MONITORING THE
POSSIBILITY OF ADVANCEMENT, AND ASSURING OF PROPER PLACEMENT IN THE
RIGHT CLASS
WE DON’T JUST “PRETEND”
TO DO GYMNASTICS, THROWING DOWN SOME PANEL MATS AND HAVING KIDS JUST “ROLLING
AROUND”, AS EXTREME HAS OVER $200,000 OF GYMNASTICS
EQUIPMENT IN OUR “BIG GYM”, WITH 2 SETS OF UNEVEN BARS, MULTIPLE
BEAMS, A VAULTING TABLE, A FULL, 44X44 OLYMPIC SIZED SPRING-LOADED
TUMBLING FLOOR, A 24 FOOT TUMBL-TRAK, PLUS A 30 FOOT LOOSE FOAM PIT AND
2 RESI-PITS TO ASSURE SAFE LANDINGS, AS WELL AS A 3000 SQUARE
FOOT, ENERGY-WARMUP ROOM TO FACILITATE AEROBIC, ANAEROBIC, AND
PLYOMETRIC ACTIVITIES
A VAST ARRAY OF
CLASS OPPORTUNITIES RANGING
FROM PARENT AND CHILD, PRESCHOOL, ADVANCED PRESCHOOL, A NEW
FITNESS PROGRAM, AGE-GROUPED RECREATIONAL CLASSES, HOUR AND A HALF AND
2-HOUR ADVANCED CLASSES, “JUNIOR” TUMBLING, GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL
PROGRAM, COMPETITIVE TEAM, BOYS CONDITIONING, A NEW BACK HANDSPRING
CLASS, AND TUMBLING
ENCLOSED, FULL
PRESCHOOL GYM, WITH
“BITE-SIZED” EQUIPMENT
REASONABLE AND
FAIR COST OF TUITION, WITH ONCE
A YEAR REGISTRATION FEES, NOT HIDDEN AND REACCURING DURING
SESSIONS
BIRTHDAY PARTIES,
OPEN WORKOUTS, AND “MINI-CAMPS”, WITH DISCOUNTS FOR MEMBERS
INEXPENSIVE
“TRIAL” CLASSES WITH OVER 90% “SIGNUP” RATE
TUITION DISCOUNTS ON
CUSTOMER REFERRALS
LEOTARDS AND
APPAREL AVAILABLE WHEN YOU WANT,
WE DON’T MAKE YOU BUY OUR SHIRTS AND SHORTS
7.5 FOOT HIGH BY 35
FOOT ROCK CLIMBING WALL USED FOR FUN AND GAMES AND CONDITIONING, WITH
ROPE STATIONS, CHINUP STATIONS, PEG BOARDS, AND A VAST ARRAY OF EXERCISE
APPARATUS
BIG OR SMALL, MANY
SUCCESSES ARE HERE, RANGING FROM MULTIPLE STATE GYMNASTICS
CHAMPIONS, TO HAVING THE NEWARK STAR-LEDGER’S 2006 SOUTH JERSEY
FRESHMAN GYMNAST OF THE YEAR, TO HAVING MOST OF OUR STUDENT POPULATION
RECEIVING THE PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL OF PHYSICAL FITNESS AWARD,
MANY, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, TO HAVING KIDS ACHIEVE LEVELS OF
SUCCESSES IN OTHER SPORTS, OUTSIDE OF OUR GYM
“LEARNING
LIFE THRU FITNESS, FUN, AND FRIENDSHIP”
EXTREME GYMNASTICS
242 SOUTH MAIN ST CEDAR RUN NJ 08092
1-609-978-9909,
FAX-1-609-978-9950
www.extremegymnasticsnj.com
PLEASE CONTACT US TODAY
TO SET UP A “TRIAL” CLASS, AND ADD YOUR CHILD’S NAME TO OUR
EVER-GROWING LIST OF SUCCESSES!
“FUN
IS HAPPENING HERE!”
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