Youth Gymnastics Training

by Meg Harris

Description

In this gymnastics coaching course, Varsity gymnastics coach Meg Harris demonstrates a variety of stretches, basic tumbling skills and strength training exercises developed specifically for young athletes. This course is designed to give parents, coaches, and team volunteers all of the tools they need to teach kids the fundamentals of gymnastics.

Lessons

Flexibility Stretches

1 Neck Stretches 2 Leg Stretches 3 Back and Shoulder Stretch 4 Arm and Shoulder Stretch 5 Ankles and Wrists 6 Split Position Stretch

Gymnastics Tumbling

7 How to Do a Forward Roll 8 How to Do a Cartwheel 9 How to Do a Lunge Cartwheel 10 How to Do a Back Bend 11 How to Do a Backward Roll 12 How to Do a Handstand 13 How to Do a Headstand 14 Basic Leaps

Gymnastics Strength Training

15 Strength Training, Part 1 16 Strength Training, Part 2

The Coach

Meg Harris

Varsity Gymnastics Coach at Middlebury Union High School

Longtime gymnastics coach Meg Harris coaches the varsity gymnastics program at Middlebury (Vt.) Union High School, in addition to the district’s middle school program. Besides developing athletes, Harris believes gymnastics instructs self-confidence, risk assessment and perseverance.

As a gymnast, she competed for the province of New Brunswick, Canada.