I completely love that now we have a day to have fun the game all of us love a lot. Really, for a few of us it’s a love-hate relationship however that is the great thing about gymnastics. It is such a difficult sport with among the largest rewards ever.
Attending to that place of feeling rewarded could be robust, as many gymnasts know. There’s so much that may occur alongside the best way. Accidents, psychological blocks, switching gyms to search out the precise match, imply coaches, teammate drama…whereas it would seem to be the challenges in gymnastics are by no means ending, let me remind you of a few of the wonderful advantages of the game of gymnastics.
1. Gymnastics builds life expertise.
The talents your gymnast learns in gymnastics can serve her properly in life. I do not imply her again handspring on beam or her tkatchev on bars. Fairly the psychological expertise of overcoming obstacles, persevering, overcoming embarrassment and worry, or studying the way to talk successfully are all expertise she is studying first hand by means of this sport.
Little doubt in life she must overcome obstacles or discover ways to navigate by means of worry. So each hardship your gymnast encounters in her gymnastics journey will set her up with efficient expertise for all times.
2. Gymnastics teaches belief.
Whether or not studying the way to belief herself when attempting a difficult talent or studying the way to belief her coach to maintain her protected, there are various alternatives to your gymnast to discover ways to belief herself and others.
Extra importantly, trusting herself teaches her the way to hearken to her mind. It forces her to go inward and pull out braveness deep inside her soul that she may by no means have needed to entry in any other case. She develops a relationship together with her mind that, good or unhealthy, is a talent she should study to navigate by means of life.
3. Gymnastics teaches your gymnast to concentrate on what she has management over.
This is likely to be a lesson your gymnast remains to be studying, as most gymnasts are. However gymnastics is a superb instance of studying the way to concentrate on the precise factor. If she’s on beam and focuses on the bottom, she’s probably falling off track. So she learns to maintain her eye on the top of the beam. If she’s at a meet and the gear feels off, if she focuses on how unusual the gear feels she’s going to probably have a foul routine.
In case your gymnast focuses on desirous to win she’ll probably really feel further nervous and find yourself tanking her routines.
The purpose is, when she focuses on the mistaken issues, the issues she would not wish to occur will occur.
So gymnastics is a superb place to your gymnast to learn the way vital it’s to concentrate on what she will management.
If a talent is not going the best way she needs it to, she will concentrate on how upset she is or she will concentrate on making corrections or doing what she CAN do in that second. If a teammate is transferring as much as the following stage and your gymnast is not, your gymnast can concentrate on how horrible that feels or she will concentrate on having an incredible repeat season.
The selection is all the time hers however by means of trial and error your gymnast will study that specializing in what she has no management over will inevitably result in poor outcomes.
Can different sports activities construct these identical life expertise? Most likely. However no sport does it in fairly the identical method as gymnastics. There’s something that nobody can perceive that comes with pushing your physique to defy gravity and transfer by means of worry. And that’s the reason gymnastics is such an vital sport.
To have fun this sport and all it has given us, I’ve compiled a couple of of my psychological coaching worksheets into one PDF (P.S. Members of my Stick It Lady Academy get worksheets like these each week). Obtain it by clicking the picture beneath:
Additionally, in the event you’re on Instagram, tag @stick.it.woman with the hashtag #SIGNGD23 with a few of your accomplished worksheets for an opportunity to win a prize and/or get featured.
Try the Nationwide Gymnastics Day official web site for some concepts for the way to have fun NGD 2023.
Seize some free Design Your Personal Leo worksheets from GK.
Seize some extra free coloring web pages from USA Gymnastics.
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In the event you or your gymnast wants assist, along with the sources beneath I additionally provide one-on-one teaching classes by way of Zoom.
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