GYMNASTICS

Health and Fitness

Group 4
GYMNASTICS

• It is a type of sport that includes physical exercises

requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility,
coordination, and endurance. The movements
involved in gymnastics contribute to the
development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back,
chest, and abdominal muscle groups.
GYMNASTIC EXERCISES
1. STRADDLE SIT

• An act of sitting with

one's legs wide apart
• It’s also a movement that
will appear as an isolated
skill or in transition on
vault, rings and bars
2. BALANCE ON ONE FOOT

• It is the ability to keep your body's center of

mass over your base of support—the area
under your feet that's connected with the
ground..
• How to balance on one foot: Standing up
straight, gymnasts should lift one leg off the
floor (or beam) and hold that position for at
least 5 seconds.
BALANCE
ON ONE
FOOT
 3. LOG ROLL

• It is a sideways roll with the hands

next to the waist and the pencil
roll is with the hands stretched
above the head. A sideways roll
can also be performed when a
gymnast over-rotates or loses
their balance in a vertical, forward
or sideways direction.
4. FORWARD ROLL

• It is a basic gymnastics move that looks like a

graceful somersault. To perform one correctly, you
should be able to move from the starting position
into a roll and get back on your feet all in one
motion. It takes practice to do a forward roll without
using your hands to support you as you stand up.
FORWARD ROLL
5. SPLITS

• It improve joint health to get strong in

terms of becoming efficient in all
physical activities. It tends to increase
the flexibility of a person and, in turn,
enables both strength and conditioning
of the core. Splits improve the body’s
balance and strength, which naturally
wears off with age.
6. CARTWHEEL

• It is a sideways rotary movement of the body. It

is performed by bringing the hands to the floor
one at a time while the body inverts. The legs
travel over the body trunk while one or both
hands are on the floor, and then the feet return
to the floor one at a time, ending with the
athlete standing upright.
CARTWHEEL
 7. BACKBEND

• It is a gymnastics, contortion,

dance and ice skating move, where
the spine is bent backwards, and
catching oneself with the hands.
Throughout the move, the
abdominal muscles, obliques, and
legs are used to steady the
performer while curving backwards.
FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS
OF MOVEMENT
& BODY MECHANICS
FUNDAMENTAL
MOVEMENT SKILLS
• Fundamental movement skills are a specific set of
skills that involve different body parts such as feet,
legs, trunk, head, arms and hands.
• These skills are the “building blocks” for more
complex and specialised skills that kids will need
throughout their lives to competently participate in
different games, sports and recreational activities.
Fundamental Skills Movements
Categories include:

• BALANCE SKILLS
• LOCOMOTOR SKILLS
• BALL SKILLS
BALANCE SKILLS
• Movements where the
body remains in place, but
moves around its
horizontal and vertical
axes.
LOCOMOTOR SKILLS
RUNNING

• Is a method of terrestrial
locomotion allowing
humans to move rapidly
on foot.
JUMPING

• Is the transfer of
weight from one or
both feet to both feet.
HOPPING

• The activity of going

from one place to
another place of the
same kind, usually a
combination.
GALLOPING

• Traveling with one

foot always in the
lead.
BALL SKILLS
CATCHING

• It is receiving an object
with hands. It involves
the child visually
tracking the object in
flight and moving into a
position to collect the
object safely without
dropping it.
THROWING

• It is propelling a
ball away from the
body and is a
target skill.
KICKING

• is a fundamental
movement skill,
basic building blocks
of physical activity, in
which a child strikes
an object with their
foot.
UNDERARM THROW

• A strong, direct throw

that generates power
from transferring weight
in a rocking action.
BOUNCING

• Is pushing the ball towards

the ground with sufficient
force to allow the ball to
bounce back up to
hand/hands at a level just
below the hip. Bouncing is
typically performed in a
stationary position.
BODY CONDITIONING
EXERCISE
Bodily conditioning exercise in
gymnastics
are designed to help you
strengthen your core, leg and arm
muscles in an effort to improve
your flexibility and control during a
gymnastics routine.
PUSH UP
BACK HANDSPRINGS

• This gymnastics exercise requires you to mobilize

your core as you flip backward, then use arm
strength to land gracefully on your hands, and finally
complete the maneuver by flipping once more to
land on your feet in one fluid motion. It’s important
to increase your balance, flexibility, and skill at
backbends before progressing to back handsprings.