About Gymnastics

Why Gymnastics?

Gymnastics . . . a beautiful and powerful sport.  Some experts say that the greatest benefits of gymnastics training for children are physical:  the amazing power, the unparalleled balance, and injury-preventing agility and grace.

Other experts say that the greatest benefits are of the mind:  the perseverance, the poise, the confidence, the attention to detail, the concentration, a consciousness of positive self value.

Which view is correct?  Our experts know!  The answer is, without a doubt, both.  In fact, professional gymnastics training is a requisite for all kids who want to learn how to become the best they can be in life.  Sound gymnastics training is for all kids.

  Pound for pound gymnasts are the strongest and most flexible of all Olympic Athletes. 

“There is one characteristic of gymnastics that is rare to discover in other sports.  Gymnastics is acyclic.  The actions and motions of the body do not repeat themselves as they do in running or swimming, for example.  Because of this acyclic nature, the body and mind of the gymnast are exposed to ever changing stimuli since the same movements are not repeated over and over.  One of the possible benefits of this is to offset plateaus while the athlete continues to progress and achieve.” 

              —Wm. Sands Ph.D., Exercise Physiologist                                   University of Utah