Derby Active at Home - Gymnastics

Thu 23 Apr 2020

We at Derby Active are here to help! For those missing their gymnastics sessions, our coaches have come up with some workouts the children can do at home for general and pre-school gymnastics. 

We would love to see your workouts and activities. You can tag us in pictures or videos of any gymnastics you’re doing at home @springwoodleisurecentre if you’d like to be featured on our page. Please ensure a parents permission has been given first. 

Basic Gymnastic moves from our coaches

Beginners Gymnastics Workout

Intermediate Gymnastics Workout

Pre-school Gymnastic activities 

For younger children, our Springtots sessions focus on developing body awareness and a love for the sport. Climbing, crawling, and jumping are a gentle way for children walking to 5 years of age to develop their physical coordination and self-confidence. 

Make sure your child has plenty of time to run around, climb, play and even do some work, such as gardening or helping with other chores around the house or outside. 

Have a go at our body awareness activities that our coaches suggest for Springtots children:

5 Body Awareness Activities for Kids

• Play with a large ball - Encourage your child to kick the ball, using one foot and then the other. Then throw the ball and catch it too.
• Imitate animal movements - Ask your child to imitate the movement of different animals: spread your wings like a bird, curl up like a snail, hop like a rabbit etc… the creativity on this one is endless.
• Play “Simon Says” - Say an action that your child must copy. If your child needs a visual cue, complete the movement yourself as you describe it. You can include parts of the body, gross motor movements, silly noises etc.
• Shadow mimic play - Have your child to be your shadow and mimic all your actions as you walk about and perform simple actions (i.e. marching in place, cross crawls, bringing elbows to the knee, raising arms above the head etc).
• Dance or move to action songs - Learn action songs and perform the actions as you sing them. (You can also use dance competition or games)

Children need to be under adult supervision at all times.

For more activities to do with your little one visit https://innatemoves.com/toddler-gymnastics-at-home/

Activities at home for our gymnasts to enjoy from British Gymnastics. 

Gymnastics Core Proficiency badges

Gymnasts, even though you're not attending your regular gymnastics sessions you can still prepare for passing your next badge. Over the next couple of week we'll be sharing videos to help you practice at home.

Beginners - Badges 8, 7 & 6

Intermediate - Badges 5, 4, 3 & 2

Advanced- Badge 1+