Floor Exercise :: Exercise Physiology

Floor ExerciseFloor exercise is a sequence of tumbles, leaps, and balances, which makea gymnastics performance. No equipment is used, only a mat and free space. Atcompetitions, judges look for good posture, proper technique, continuity, andvariety.Floor exercise builds confidence and character. Your self confidenceincreases as you learn body control. As you fetch involved you will gain selfdiscipline. You will learn valuable lessons about exercise, eating correctly,and getting the proper amount of rest, leading to a levelheaded and longer life.Competitive acrobatics have various levels at which people can participate andgain recognition for achievements. Most important, floor exercise is fun. to a greater extentchallenging the than other activities. Tumbling is considered the basis of allacrobatics. Although it is not one of the four Olympic competitive nonethelessts,tumbling is important because the skills you learn will answer you perform theother events. For example, the bas ic forward roll can also be performed on thebalance beam and in the floor exercise, and is important even when acquirement thevault and the uneven bars.The best way to learn floor exercise is through growths. Aprogression is a rate by step method of learning skills, beginning with the easyones and gradually mastering the more difficult ones. If you wanted to learn aforward somersault, you would not just head start out trying to do the somersault.Instead, you would learn a whole series of skills one by one, moving along tothe next one only afterward you mastered the first. It is important to be patientwhen learning floor exercises through progressions. Do not move on to the nextskill in the progression until you and your coach have determined that you areready. This method will allow you to learn a large number of skills while havingfun and developing confidence. If you get under ones skin a skill to be particularly difficultto learn, perhaps you are trying to take too big of a step, or too many, in yourprogression. Ask your coach for assistance. She or he can almost always give yousmaller steps that will help you reach your goal. In learning acrobatics or anyother sport it requires that you also learn the language of the sport. Thelanguage of acrobatics is quite complicated. For example, a forward roll is makeon the ground, but a forward somersault or salto is done in the air. Someonemight think that you have learned a reckon flip, but you will know that this isreally a salto.Floor exercise is fun and one of the best overall physical fitness