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Event Introduction – Tumbling For Beginners

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Welcome to the very first post of the Event Introduction series where I explain the basic stepping stones of gymnastics for beginners. In this post I will be covering the floor event to talk about a couple things you’ll need to know before starting, things I wish more parents and gymnast knew before taking their first tumbling for beginners class.

Much of this information can actually help put you ahead instead of starting out as a novice.

How?

For starters, it’s cost effective to read this introduction course otherwise you could be paying several hundred dollars worth of gymnastics classes that give the same information.

Secondly, it starts you at a higher skill level.

Coaches do trial classes for new gymnasts to find out how much knowledge and familiarity with the sport they have. This helps coaches determine the skill level, therefor they can assess what class level they should be taking.

Now, enough chit chat. Let’s get down to business. [Read more…] about Event Introduction – Tumbling For Beginners

Event Introduction – Gymnastics for Beginners

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I’m super excited to be starting a new series of posts for the Gymnast Training Pro website called “Event Introduction”. I am going to be introducing gymnastics apparatus’ to explain the basic stepping stones for each event. Gymnastics is a physically demanding sport, so you’re going to want to hear what you or your child needs in order to be safe, confident, and talented. [Read more…] about Event Introduction – Gymnastics for Beginners

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.

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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.

 

Awarded Top 25 Gymnastics Blog

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To 25 Gymnastics Blog

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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Best Price

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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