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Cross Training:
If your schedule doesn't allow for gym-visits, cross training is a great benefit to your child's system. Read on to see how cross training might help give your skills a BOOST…

California affords us wonderful weather to get outdoors and run and play. Any activity will be a benefit to them physiologically and emotionally. They will naturally feel better, and will definitely feel better upon returning to their gymnastic routine.
Effects of detraining can inhibit improvement significantly. In our team students, detraining of muscles and respiratory function can occur within 2-4 days (as most of them experienced over Thanksgiving break). In our class students, a noticeable difference can occur over 2 weeks. This is why students will usually complain of body and muscle soreness upon returning, and their skills might not come as easily to them.

Any sport where they are running, jumping, moving etc. for long periods of time can maintain and even help endurance levels. The quality of their workouts can improve as well with increased endurance. Soccer is a great cross-over sport. This sport combines constant running (or chasing of the ball), combined with the coordination of aiming and kicking. It takes mental and physical concentration and really boosts reaction time. Soccer also produces an increase in leg strength, which all gymnasts and tumblers need to jump those back-handsprings and back-tucks over. Of course there are many sports that your kids can play which will definitely give them a boost, and help them cross-over to gymnastics classes with ease.

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