Because there's never enough going on at school (hehe), we've started aerobic trials this week, well actually last week. Today we had the second of three aerobics trials and it was awesome to see so many enthusiastic girls ready to sweat it out.
It's pretty hard to explain aerobics, but Ms J-V describes aerobic gymnastics as jump jam grew up and met cheerleading with a bit of dance thrown in. We focus on 4 main areas in our trials, stamina (being able to keep going), flexibility (aiming for our splits), strength (how long can you support your entire body weight with your hands?), and leaps/jumps (splits in the air? Sure no worries!).
We start off with lengths as a warm up, bringing in different aerobic steps - ponies, chasses, flicks etc., then move on to skipping for 2 mins. Next it's stretching individually followed by practicing our strength moves, then flexibility and leaps. At the moment we're just working on learning the round up routine. This is our "feel the floor" opportunity at the beginning of each competition.
We've got one more trial to go before the training squad is announced and the training can begin!
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