Top 5 Gymnastics Crash Mats For Sale

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You can find gymnastics crash mats for sale that help teach skills on vault, floor, bars, and conditioning exercises. All mats range in thickness from 4″(light padding) to 8″(medium padding), and 12″(heavy padding). First you’ll need to determine the skill level you want to practice, then find what the mat’s thickness needs to be in order to support that skill level (more on this below).

We recommend using Incores Best Landing Mats for their variety of sizes that make it pretty convenient while maintaining a safe quality product OR the Tumbl Trak Pillow Pit because it can fold which makes it easy to move and it can attach to multiple mats.

10 Cheap Gymnastics Leotards for Conditioning

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I think we can all agree that gymnastics centered stores are few and far between.

Fortunately for us this isn’t 30 years ago and we have the internet.

You can see our top cheap gymnastics leotards list below with multiple print designs and material that range in size by age (3-15 years old) for warm-up, practice, and conditioning.

BUT we recommend the MadSportsStuff Leotard because of the amount of design options they have, and the fact that they have a 30 day money back guarantee (even though you’ll find that their leotards are incredibly comfortable and modest).

1. Girls Retro Pattern Biketard

Ages 3-15

This adorable pink sparkly leotard is perfect to make a little girl feel special. With its boy short design, it will keep the material from riding up. Skin friendly material polyester and spandex is stretchy in all the right areas and helps wick the sweat away from the body.

Can be used for:

This leotard is perfect for gymnastics, training, yoga, tumbling, and biking. Makes a great gift for the special little girl in your life for her birthday, Christmas or just for a special anytime gift. This will make a lovely addition to any gymnast wardrobes, treat a special young lady to this gem.

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Awarded Top 25 Gymnastics Blog

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Gymnast Training Pro is ranked #23 on the internet in Feedspot’s “Top 25 Gymnastics Blogs” list.

Providing value to gymnasts, parents, and coaches where it is needed is what we aspired to accomplish when GTP created this website, and to be recognized for this is only confirmation that we are doing exactly that.

Feel free to contact us for any feedback, questions, or content suggestions for the GTP website.

– GTP Team

Special thanks to Feedspot

Nutritional Disaster & Healthy Eating Habits

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Nutritional Gymnastics- The Dos and Don’ts to give your kids the edge they need

A young gymnast’s life is full of health benefits: challenging physical exercise, discipline, and of course, FUN!

But it can also be a grueling existence for both parents and kids. From the insane amount of driving to and from practice, to striking that healthy balance of homework, gymnastics and family time, this sport requires energy and strength from the entire family.

The more sustained energy you and your gymnast have, the easier you can meet the demands of this endeavor. As humans, our source of energy and immunity is-

food.

But what we need is more real food.

With the average American getting over 60% of their calories from processed foods, it’s no wonder we are a nation of perpetually sick people, among other possibilities, sure, but what you feed your child is critical to the immune system.

When it comes to your child’s nutrition, simplicity is best. It’s time to get back to real food.

Check out these simple tips of what to avoid and what to stock up on for the young gymnast. And it’s NOT just for the kids: following these guidelines will make your whole family healthier and happier. [Read more…] about Nutritional Disaster & Healthy Eating Habits

Signs Your Child Should Be In Gymnastics

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It is not required to have natural talent in order to take gymnastics classes, just the right mixture of signs.

Actually, “natural talent” is essentially lucking out with the vestibular system, which could be all for nothing if something like determination is missing.

Which brings me to my first important signs of a potential gymnast your child probably has. [Read more…] about Signs Your Child Should Be In Gymnastics

Best Stall Bars For Home

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Every time I enter a new gymnastics gym one of the first apparatus’ I notice, that certainly is not in every gym, are stall bars (stall bars = swedish ladder = gymnastics ladder = wall bars). Which is a little peculiar because of how therapeutic it was made to be.

We determined the Xtreme Fitness Wood Stall Bars to be the best stall bars because of its low barrier to entry costs, ability to fit conveniently in a home, room for growth in fitness routines and physical therapy, as well as resiliency.

For a more cost effective, classic swedish aesthetic, and durable option, the Durable Port Wooden Swedish Ladder would be your second best option.

I’ll save listing all the things it can be used for for another part of this review. Instead, let’s cut right down to the best wooden gymnastics ladders that are available online. [Read more…] about Best Stall Bars For Home

5 Best Gymnastics Rings For Sale

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10 years ago..in a time not so different from now..

..EXCEPT for the fact it was considered a feat to find suspended rings anywhere but a gymnastics gym. Nowadays we have things like crossfit as a platform for weighted and body weight exercises which exposed rings as a sufficient way of working out, not sure what took everyone so long to figure that out.

Not everyone can afford to go to a gymnastics gym or a crossfit gym, BUT there are plenty of companies that have monetized the demand for rings supplies for customers to set them up wherever they want. Outside, backyard, in your home, at a park, public bathroom, look I’m not here to judge, I’m just here to let you know what some of the best gymnastics rings for sale are.

HERE ARE THE TOP 3 BEST GYMNASTICS RINGS!

Most Reliable

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Easiest Setup

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List of Bar Skills You Can Do At Home

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Good news everyone:

You don’t have to be at a gymnastics gym to learn or practice any of these bar skills.

In fact, learning and practicing these skills at home helps out the coaches tremendously in terms of level progression.

Since the process of learning is gradual and (especially with gymnastics) not immediate, knowing these skills help to improve form, familiarity, and most importantly level advancement.

It takes baby steps, and these baby steps are the skills you can do at home in order to make much bigger steps (bigger steps being skills you should practice at the gymnastics gym under a coach’s supervision).

So, in order to practice these skills at home you will need gymnastics bars (a branch on a tree will suffice…just kidding don’t do that), the Tumbl Trak PRO bar being the most reliable which can be attributed to it’s popularity and Gym2Dance being the most affordable out of the choices.

List of Skills:

Pullover

Plan on competing? Even if you aren’t, basically this skill is an alternative to mounting onto the bar and typically where everyone starts. It is especially difficult for preschoolers to do since there hasn’t been much development of core muscles. A mixture of practicing pullovers and core conditioning exercises, nothing too intense but just enough to do the job. Once this mount is mastered, it makes it easier to do others. [Read more…] about List of Bar Skills You Can Do At Home

Level 3 Gymnastics All Around Skill Requirements

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Picking up where we left off from Level 2 Gymnastics, we sure are making a lot of progress! Competing season can be a little hectic, but let’s hit the ground running for all of the outstanding gymnasts. Refer back to level 2 gymnastics skills for warm-ups and a refreshed mind. It’s important to get our gymnasts muscle memory back before teaching new skills, the well-being of gymnasts is very important.

Level 3 skills contain elements of level 2, but with advanced techniques.

Z-Athletic Expandable Junior Training Bar Review

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Z-Athletics is a well established, family owned, retailer for all gymnastics equipment that sells to both consumers AND gymnastics facilities. The company distributes their high quality products straight out of Noblesville, Indiana. Of their highly acclaimed quality gymnastics apparatus’s for home, the Expandable Junior Training Bar seems to be the most recognized. Before I explain why this is, here are important product details:

Bar Specs

Comes in colors blue, pink, and purple
130lb weight limit making it the sturdiest in the market
Only takes up 4.2ft X 4.2ft of floor space
Bar height adjusts from 36″-59″
It is recommended to purchase the extension kit for Level 6 skills.
Indoor use and storage only

Comes with a 1 year factory warranty for any missing or damaged items

Expandable Junior Training Bar

A junior training apparatus like this one is often times seen in the homes of young gymnasts and inside gymnastics gyms for low level classes. Although the product works fantastic and is reliable for training skills, there seems to be a general favoritism for its competing version: Tumbl Trak Junior Pro Bar.

It’s heavily favored because of its rounded corners and that it doesn’t need an extension kit. The Z-Athletics bar model is aesthetically more to the point compared to its predecessor, but it takes up less space, holds more weight, and also comes with a 1 year warranty. I think THAT is pretty worth it. [Read more…] about Z-Athletic Expandable Junior Training Bar Review