Viking Art FairĪs we are starting our second month of Viking’s Virtual Gymnastics classes, I was asked to reflect back on what seems to be both a very long and short experience. This entry was posted in Body and Fitness, Exercise Trends, Exercises For Gymnasts on Jby John Melson. Staying home is a great opportunity to work on your gymnastics strength with exercises like these and a great time to try our Viking Virtua Classes! Stay home and stay strong! Put your legs out straight (keeping them off the ground) for a bigger challenge! This exercise is good for building the endurance of your core muscles for skills like a glide swing, and kip on bars. Hold this position for 30 seconds, three times. Laying down, arms by your side, and knees bent, press your lower back to the ground and engage core muscles to lift shoulders and feet off ground. This works the shoulder muscles that help you stay on the balance beam on jumps and leaps. Keep your chin and legs on the ground and use the back of your shoulder muscles to lift your arms off the ground and hold for 30 seconds, three times. Lay on your belly with your arms out to the side (in a “T” shape). This exercise strengthens your biceps and triceps in your arms to help you with skills like the front handspring vault. Lower your chest and hips to the floor, by your elbows bending at a 45° angle, and then push up to the original starting position. Keep a straight line from your shoulders to your knees throughout the movement. This exercise strengthens your shoulder and back muscles to help you with skills like the tap swing on bars.Ĭreate a pushup position with your knees on the floor and feet up in the air. With your feet together, lift your feet, arms, and chin off the ground while squeezing all the muscles in the back of your body. Lay on your belly with your arms by your ears. Try picking one foot off the ground for an extra challenge! This exercise strengthens your hamstrings, glute muscles, and core muscles to help you stick your landings on skills like a side handstand beam dismount. Laying on your back, knees bent with feet on the floor, and arms by your side, press your lower back into the ground and lift your hips up to create a straight line from your knees to your shoulders. This exercise will help strengthen your quadriceps, hamstrings, and glutes to help you jump into skills like a back handspring. Keep your chest up and knees in line with toes. Start by bending slightly at your hips, then bend your knees to lightly touch the chair and then stand up again. Stand with a chair slightly behind your feet. Improving your strength during this time can help improve your gymnastics when we return to the gym. We all miss being at Viking, but we can still stay strong at home! Here are six strength exercises for gymnasts of all ages and levels that can be done anywhere, anytime. Send us feedback about these examples.6 Exercises for Gymnasts to Stay Strong at Home These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'fitful.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. James Raineystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2023 Many seven-day workweeks and nights of fitful sleep ensued, challenges even more difficult than Doctor acknowledged in his columns about the startup. 2020 What before felt like an ironic optimism sneaking into the last act now feels like normal, boring, fitful, conflict-ridden, everyday life - like palling around with half-interesting people. 2022 But if Democrats want to put their best foot forward in questioning the next Supreme Court nominee, and the consensus points to replacing Feinstein with someone who doesn’t fill anonymous Senate Democrats with fitful nights of worry, then why not do it? - Libby Watson, The New Republic, 24 Sep. Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 9 Oct. virtually guarantees me a fitful, sleepless night. 2023 Franz Kafka’s fitful fiction provides a reminder. 2021 For those who both play and love college basketball, March becomes one long blur of adrenaline, punctuated by exuberant nights and fitful sleeps. Grace Segers, The New Republic, 30 Dec. Curbed, Despite a strong Democratic mandate-for the bulk of the 111th Congress, the party held 255 seats in the House, and 59 seats in the Senate-the efforts to pass these bills were fitful, thanks to internal disagreements and firm opposition from a Republican minority. Recent Examples on the Web Despite the new miles of dedicated lanes, the growing fleet of Citi Bikes, and all the fitful but earnest rallying behind the concept of Vision Zero, biking in New York only seems to have grown more treacherous.
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