Posts Tagged ‘Children’s fitness’
I resolve to….be S*M*A*R*T
Lose weight, workout more, get my financials in order, call my brothers more, learn a new language, etc. The list is endless and most often it’s open-ended. Most people who make resolutions do it with a genuine desire for self-improvement, the problem is in the follow through. Often our resolutions are little more than thoughts…
Read MoreBrain Research supports gymnastics as a good choice for kids
One of the current strategies for working with children classified as ADD or Attention Deficit Disorder is to give them more physical activity. The research shows that kids with ADD have smaller frontal lobes of the brain and thus they tend to struggle with focus and lean toward being more impulsive. Many of these children…
Read MoreHow can you get them to eat healthy?
How can we get our kids to eat healthier? That is a great question; first lets look at what is against us and what we need to do to combat it. Kids are bombarded by media messages telling them to eat terrible processed food-like products that have no nutritional value. They see more ads for…
Read MoreThe problem with Traditionitis
Ok. Just venting. I am appalled at somethings I see things in the children’s activity industry and I wonder what the heck is going on. Case in point: I see an advertisement for a local children’s activity franchise that shows a child doing a back bend, or what in gymnastics or yoga is known as…
Read MoreHistory Tuesday: vaulting
Now this is an event I could sink my teeth into. In fact, I did. When I was a vaulter we had the old vaulting horse and for one vault my hands slipped and I hit my face on the horse. It loosened a couple of teeth but I did conquer the vault on the next try. …
Read MoreGymnastics Makes Smarter Kids
Today we are pretty comfortable knowing that a child’s success is based off of good health and education. That seems like something we could all agree on, right? Right. Yet we see disturbing trends in child obesity still on the up-swing. This is particularly disturbing because obesity and lethargy go hand in hand and as…
Read MoreA comment on culture
This weekend we held our annual gymnastics meet here at Gymfinity. We had 450 gymnasts and we ran it over 25 hours in 2 days. It is a monumental task and the planning for next year started today. We have the same two goals every year: 1. to host a great event where everyone is…
Read MoreHistory Tuesday: Uneven Bars
As far back as 1830 the French teacher Amoros wrote of “uneven” or Asymetrical” bars in his Manuel d’education physique et morale. But back then the women and the men did not participate together and women did not own the bar until long after this period. Wommen’s gymnastics was very similar to men’s gymnastics. As…
Read MoreHistory Tuesday: High Bar
Last of my History lesson Tuesdays featuring men’s gymnastics. This one on my favorite events to watch but least favorite to do. I never competed High bar as a gymnast except one time in college when my team competed in Michigan at a meet held during a snow storm. The opposing team had only a…
Read MoreThe race is not always to the swiftest
I saw this video, its short and it’s very inspirational. Watch her run, especially at the end. Her strides are so beautiful and in context even more so. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM5A1K6TxxM] Heather Dorniden trained hard and had one outcome in mind. Her definition of victory included only one possible end. Despite her fall she never gave up.…
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