Gymnastics is not only a sport ...

What is gymnastics? Why is it needed? What kinds of it exist? Who should do it? Today we will try to answer all these questions.

Gymnastics for children

Gymnastics is a collection of specially selected exercises that help not only to awaken the body from sleep in the morning, as we used to think from childhood, but also to strengthen health in general.

Gymnastics is also called gymnastics. And it's no accident. After all, it helps in raising children in preschool and school age. After the morning, these or other physical exercises will be done, the children will be in a good mood, and there will be an emotional upsurge. Also after charging, a drowsy state disappears and working capacity improves.

In addition to all this, charging helps to developdiscipline in children and overcome laziness. If the morning gymnastics of the house is compared with gymnastics in kindergarten or school, in the first case it helps to awaken the body from sleep, and in the second it brings organizational moments.

The whole point of morning gymnastics in kindergartens or schools is that hyperactive children calm down, and in low-activity, on the contrary, they are filled with energy.

How to do gymnastics?

We already said that gymnastics isa set of exercises that invigorate the body. To achieve this goal, it is necessary not to force the child to do gymnastics, but to interest him in the game form to do exercises that will be useful. For example, you can say; "Do you know how the frogs jump? Let's show it together! ". It is very important that you are an example for imitation, so it is worth doing morning exercises with your baby.

How correctly to do gymnastics? First of all, it must start with walking on the spot or in a circle, while saying: "Our feet are walking!". Children raise their legs high, after 1-1,5 minutes of such actions it is necessary to complicate the task, for example: "Now they have reached the sun!" Or "Now we are walking like bears!". In the first case, the children in walking raise their hands up and slowly lower, and in the second the children walk on the inside of the foot, rocking like bears. Here it is worth paying attention not only to the correct performance of exercises, but also to breathing.

After these exercises, as a rule, enter games with the ball and simulate the actions of various animals.

Types of gymnastics

Soviet teachers and psychologists divided gymnastics into types. All of them have their own specific tasks.

1. Educational and developmental gymnastics directedon the development and general strengthening of the body for certain individuals or for this or that age. This includes developing gymnastics for schoolchildren and preschoolers, women's (aimed at developing and strengthening the female body), athletic (aimed at power activities) and some other kinds.
2. Wellness gymnastics is aimed athealth improvement of the body. This kind of charge includes gymnastics, gymnastics (today its use has been widely used in lessons in schools), rhythm and therapeutic gymnastics.
3. Sports kinds of gymnastics are directed on developmentphysical qualities and willpower. This includes rhythmic gymnastics and sports acrobatics. Having mastered the technique of these or those physical exercises, children participate in showing their sports skills.

A little bit about rhythmic gymnastics

Rhythmic gymnastics today enjoyshigh demand among boys and girls of preschool and primary school age. In addition, this sport is popular among women. It involves performing certain exercises synchronously with the music with the subject (this can be a hoop, ball, tape, etc.) or without it.

Not for nothing that one of the most beautiful sports is considered to be such gymnastics. This is not surprising. Surely you have watched the rhythmic gymnastics competitions on television more than once.

If you want your daughter to learn the same waymove beautifully, then give it to the appropriate classes. The gymnastics coach will not only conduct training, but will also accompany his players in competitions and performances.

At what age can you do rhythmic gymnastics?

Experts answer this question in different ways. Some believe that it is very dangerous to engage in this sport for young children. Others argue that, on the contrary, it is very useful. Which of them is right?

In fact, for children aged 3 to 10 yearsRhythmic gymnastics is simply the performance of gymnastic exercises and the development of the strength of the spirit. Professionally the guys begin to practice after 10 years. Here it is worth considering that the earlier a child starts to engage in this sport, the faster he can achieve success.

And whether it is possible to achieve something at an age, toexample, 20 years? Of course, you can. First of all, people can prove to themselves that they can achieve certain results. Secondly, today you can attend classes for all age groups, where they can also prepare for competitions. Competitions in gymnastics in this case can not be a high level, but on them everyone can demonstrate what he achieved for this or that period of engaging in this sport.