🤸♀️ What is Stretch & Stamina?
Our Stretch & Stamina class is designed to help gymnasts improve their flexibility, strength, endurance and overall performance in a safe and supportive environment.
Why is stretching important?
Flexibility is a key component of gymnastics. Regular stretching helps to:
- Improve flexibility and range of motion
- Reduce muscle tightness and imbalances
- Lower the risk of injury
- Enhance performance and technique
- Prepare the body for more advanced skills
Through consistent stretching and repetition, gymnasts can develop the mobility needed to perform skills correctly, safely and with greater confidence.
What is stamina?
Stamina is the ability to maintain physical effort over a prolonged period of time. Building stamina helps gymnasts to:
- Increase strength and endurance
- Improve overall fitness levels
- Maintain energy throughout training sessions
- Perform skills with better control and consistency
- Build resilience and confidence when facing physical challenges
What to Expect in This Class
- Warm-up and conditioning exercises
- Stamina and fitness challenges, including the Bleep Test
- Full-body stretching routines
- Flexibility and mobility training
- Oversplits and advanced stretching exercises (where appropriate)
- Strength and endurance circuits
- Skill-specific flexibility work to support gymnastics development
Whether your goal is to improve flexibility, build fitness, or support your gymnastics progression, our Stretch & Stamina class is a fantastic way to develop the physical foundations needed to succeed.