Moreover to
being regulated by the International Federation of Gymnastics, it is divided
into six disciplines, despite the fact that only three of these are Olympic:
artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline gymnastics.
This sport aims to develop the flexibility and strength of the human body.
These two
qualities are, together with dexterity, the essential conditions of the
effectiveness of our movements, of the availability of our body, both in
ordinary life and in sports.
These
qualities specifically for the non-athlete's satisfactory "fitness".
Moreover to its regular cultivation, it depends on the satisfactory functioning
of the joints and muscles, since it is the best way to combat hardening or
atrophy and detention for as long as possible in good physical condition.
For our
athletes, flexibility and strength, developed and cared for, allow superior
physical performance and constant improvement of the achievements of which the
human being is capable.
Physical benefits of sport:
This discipline increases cardiovascular endurance, so it prevents the onset of cardiovascular disease. Moreover improves resistance and muscle strength: it prevents muscle injuries.
Some good is that it increases flexibility, for example: Our child will be more agile, faster and have less risk of sprains. Also promotes knowledge of one's own body, thus helping to develop coordination skills better and faster. While, it provides control of a high level of basic movements that will allow for optimal technical sports work in the future.
Psychic benefits of sport:
In case the person is insecure, this sport helps to gain self-confidence, since the fact of overcoming previous challenges, makes our child feel able to face others of greater difficulty.
Moreover increases self-esteem, as our child "likes himself" to see that he is capable of doing well, different types of movements and exercises.
Also favors autonomy, since our child realizes that he or she is capable of dominating his or her body in the environment (space, mats, obstacles, jumps, etc.). This makes him aware that he has a great capacity to act independently.
As soon as his improvement makes him feel valued by others: his classmates call him to participate in their games, his teachers congratulate him and his parents do too. Because it helps him to feel brave in different situations, both physical and social, and that gives him security. So that makes him feel more independent, able to decide for himself when and how he should act or stop.
General gymnastics
General gymnastics is a discipline in which people of all ages participate in groups from six to one hundred and fifty gymnasts who perform choreographies in a synchronized manner. Also the groups can be of a single gender or mixed.
Artistic gymnastics
Artistic gymnastics is one that through body movements using the head, arms and legs creates a way of expressing itself with music and even with a companion and apparatus, since it is made up of different modalities according to the male and female categories.
Rhythmic gymnastics
Rhythmic gymnastics is a discipline in which there is only the feminine modality. Moreover they perform five routines with five different devices: ball, tape, hoop, clubs and rope. Exercises are made on a tapestry. When scoring, it is done on a maximum of twenty points, valuing aesthetics more than stunts.
Aerobic gymnastics
Aerobic gymnastics, despite being known as sports aerobics, is a gymnastics discipline in which a routine of between one hundred and one hundred and ten seconds is performed with high-intensity movements derived from traditional aerobics moreover to a series of elements of difficulty. So this routine must demonstrate continuous movements, flexibility, strength and a perfect execution in the elements of difficulty.
Acrobatic gymnastics
Acrobatic gymnastics also known as acro-sport is a group discipline in which there are the modalities of male couple, female couple, mixed couple, female trio and male quartet.
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Gymnastics is considered to have originated in ancient Egypt, when circus stunts were performed.
As soon as it was born in Central Europe in the middle of the XVIII the century with the name of modern gymnastics. And in one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, the first modern gymnastics teacher was Johann Friedrich Simon, at the Basedow school in the German city of Dessau.
After in eighteen hundred and six in Spain, the first official center where it was practiced was at the Royal Pestalozzi Institute, founded by Amorós in Madrid. Thereafter in eighteen hundred eleven, the educator Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, father of modern gymnastics, founded the Turnverein, a gymnastic club in Berlin.
Until in eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, gymnastics took hold in some schools and the Amateur Gymnastics Association was founded. And in eighteen hundred and ninety-six this discipline was included in the Olympic Games for participants of the male sex.
Moreover, in nineteen three the World Championships for men are held for the first time. But in one thousand nine hundred twenty eight, the women's competition was completed for the first time. Henceforth, in one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four the first world women's championships were held.
Since approximately nineteen hundred and fifty, rhythmic gymnastics has boomed, especially as a women's sports activity, since it is practiced with accessories such as balls, hoops, ribbons, balance bars, jump boxes and parallels.
Spain participates for the first time in the first World Championship in nineteen sixty-three and after a slump of ten years returns to competition, holding the seventh World Championship in Madrid in year nineteen seventy-five. Ten years later, in nineteen hundred and eighty-five, the XII Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championship was held in Valladolid, and it is where Spain begins a brilliant era that has been continuously overcome until reaching the current one, in which Spain not only rubs shoulders with the mythical Russia and Bulgaria, but has even surpassed them.
This discipline was won mostly by members of the teams from the USSR, Romania and eastern countries, despite the fact that little by little, they have been outperforming other participants; At the Atlanta Olympics nineteen ninety-six, Spanish gymnasts managed to achieve the Gold Medal.
Gymnastics is a sport that involves physical exercise, so that requires balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination and endurance. Also, the movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest and abdominal muscle groups.
Alertness, precision, boldness, self-confidence and self-discipline are mental traits, as they can be developed through gymnastics evolved from exercises used by the ancient Greeks that included horse riding and dismounting skills or circus performance skills.