Adults Gymnastics

UNFORTUNATELY ADULT CLASSES ARE NOT OFFERED AT PRESENT, PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON FOR UPDATED INFORMATION

This class is about fun, fitness and the enjoyment of gymnastics. Suited for the beginner and the experienced. Participants learn all basic gymnastics skills on all apparatus following the P2P program.  This is a flexible program and the participant has the choice to challenge themselves within their capabilities whilst having fun and getting fit!

In this program you love participating in Fun:-

• Strength activities
• Flexibility  activities
• Gymnastics Skills
• Fat Burning Programs

This Class is for all ages and experience abilities and promotes and increases body awareness, individual learning, self-confidence, social skills and all over body strength and flexibility through FUN!

Ever wanted to:

• Try something a little different to get fit?
• Come back to gymnastics and see if you can still do those flips that you did when you were a child?
• Walk along a beam and learn how to handstand?
• Jump on trampolines and  swing on the bars?
• Meet a great group of people and enjoy   sport again?
• Get strong, flexible and have fun doing a great sport!

THEN Adults Gymnastics is for you!

The Benefits of gymnastics has been shown time and time again.

Most people over 25 believe that they are too old to start gymnastics. Many people believe that 15 is too old to start gymnastics. This is a ridiculous notion. 15, or 25 might be too late to start gymnastics if the intent is to become an Olympic competitor, but it is never too late to gain the benefits from practising this sport.

Gymnastics will improve performance in any other sport, as well as improving overall fitness and functional strength to a level that most people never attain.

Studies have shown that resistance training improves joint health, maintains muscular development and improves cardiovascular fitness. This is true for all ages.
Gymnastics is all about resistance training. The conditioning involved in a progressive gymnastics program focuses on functional strength. Elite gymnast’s strength to weight ratios are second to none. This is what enables elite gymnasts to perform skills that appear to be humanly impossible. While some of these moves might be out of reach for most people, with a focused gymnastics conditioning program most adults will be stronger than they have ever been.

Not only will this conditioning enable anyone to perform moves that will make most 17 year olds gape in amazement, but it will also help prevent injuries.

Stretching and flexibility is an area that is sadly lacking from most fitness programs. The 2 to 3 minutes spent stretching before a class is simply not enough. Being flexible allows for greater joint mobility, improves circulation and helps to prevent joint injury.

There is a strong focus on flexibility in gymnastics. Most gymnastics skills are greatly benefited by flexibility and others are simply impossible without the proper flexibility. Gymnastics stretching is also taught by people who really understand how to improve flexibility quickly and safely.

Gymnasts are among the most flexible athletes in the world. As people age their flexibility tends to decrease. This is generally due to a lack of stretching and physical activity rather than simply a result of aging. If flexibility is trained throughout ones life a high degree of flexibility can be maintained.

Gymnastics is anything but boring. There is always another step to learn. It is possible to learn something new every single class or workout that is attended.

A few points that must be considered when starting gymnastics as an adult:

• First is that it is difficult. Adults have few if any advantages over a five year old child starting this sport, and many disadvantages. Adults will start out with basic skills, and must be patient in learning new skills. One of the biggest hindrances I’ve seen in coaching adult gymnastics is that many adults are embarrassed watching 9 year old kids that are significantly better than them at the sport. The kids fully understand, because they went through it as well. There is nothing to be hesitant about. Everyone in that gym has been through the basics.
• An awareness of safe progressions. Adults do have a higher risk of injury then children in the sport. Secondly adults recover slower than children. Proper progressions and a focus on safety is critical.
• Most important factor in starting adult gymnastics is fun. Learning how to tumble, flip, swing, and come as close to self powered flight as is possible is a blast.     

If you are an adult and think you are “too old” to start. Think again.