If you’re little gymnast is nagging you to get her to the gym, make your home the gym with these easy steps.
Step 1: Find comfortable, stretchy clothes.
Step 2: Find a big, soft surfaced area.
Step 3: Warm-up with 30 jumping jacks, 30 push ups, and 30 curl ups.
Step 4: Stretch. Pike for 30 seconds, butterfly for 30 seconds, straddle for 30 seconds, do 30 lunges, rock and roll 30 times.
Step 5: Backbend. Stand straight with your legs shoulder length apart. Place your hands straight next to your ears with your palms flat. Lean backwards and keep going down slowly until you reach the floor.
Step 6: Cartwheel.
Step 7: Handstand. Go into a cartwheel position. Bounce off your front leg and kick your back leg up straight then kick the front leg up.
Step 8: Splits. Do them for an hour a day.
Step 9: Scorpion. Grab your leg and make your toes touch your shoulder. Try to grab leg with other hand as well.
Step 10: Elbow Stand. Like a handstand on your elbows.
Step 11: Practice for an Aerial. Be able to do a cartwheel Get a bed and put your elbows there and kickover (elbow cartwheel). Do not do it on the floor because when your are on the bed,it give you experience of flipping through the air. Get a perfect aerial cartwheel on the bed, then move one elbow off to get closer to an aerial. Make that perfect. Move both elbows off of the bed and kick your legs over. Repeat it until you can get an aerial without your arms on the bed. Move your bed and you should pretend the bed is still there and do an aerial.
*Includes excerpt from http://www.wikihow.com/Do-Gymnastic-Moves-at-Home-(Kids)
