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Summary: Learn how to do basic warm up stretches for gymnastics with advanced acrobatics techniques and gymnastic moves in this free kids gymnastics and tumbling video clip.
Valentino Moutafov studied at the National Sports Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria. He coaches acrobatics and gymnastics, and has competed in mixed pair and men’s pair acrobatics. He is a...read more
" Hi! My name is Matt, and on behalf of expertvillage.com, I’m going to show you some stretches, some basic exercises that you should do before doing gymnastics, or basically any sport or strenuous physical activity. If you want some more information, go to lagymnastics.com. First, before you stretch, jog around or do jumping jacks or anything to get your heart pumping. Then what you’d want to do is you would want to start with your head and work down to your toes. So you start rolling your head around, loosen up your neck. Put your feet apart a little bit. You can move your waist around. You can put your feet back together and move your shoulders. Circling backwards and forwards. If want to get really tricky, you can go one backwards and one forwards. You can go both sides. Then another stretch would be feet together, try to keep your knees all the way straight and reach down. First your fingertips, then maybe your fists, then your hands flat. If you can do your hands flat, put your nose to your knees. Put your feet apart, cross your arms, and then you’re just going to hang and swing. You can touch one foot. Touch the other foot. Touch your hand to the opposite foot. Touch your hand to the opposite foot. Put your hands on the floor and bend one leg and one leg straight. Go to the other side; other leg straight, other leg bent. Put your hands on the floor, sit down in a straddle This is a straddle. You want to sit up tall, you don’t want to be here. Same as all rest of the gymnastics, sit up tall; you don’t want to be here. Hands in the middle, then you’re going to stretch. One hand in the middle, one hand reaches up and over your head, and look at the ceiling. Not on this side of your arm, on this side. If you can, reach all the way to your foot. If you can put your shoulder to the floor. Then you go to the other side. Under your arm. Not on this side, on this side. If you can, reach all the way over. Then you’re going to reach in the middle as far out as you can go. "
eHow Article: Beginner Warm Up Stretches for Kids Gymnastics & Tumbling