Foot gymnastic games and exercises intend to strengthen the muscles of legs and feet, to improve the motion sequences of walking and sports and also to have a positive effect on varicose veins and on dorsal pain. Such activities are especially recommended to improve the flat feet of children. In addition going barefoot (e.g. visiting barefoot parks) should complement the healthy training program for the feet.
Recommended program
Test your skill in binding a knot with your toes!
Warm up with exercises to improve flexibility and coordination of feet and toes:
moving and spreading toes,
grabbing small objects,
playing various skill games with the feet.
Continue strengthening the muscles of feet and legs:
Foot training with a stick
alternate walking on tiptoe and heels,
balancing -- normal and on tiptoe,
jumping on one or both legs,
partner exercises like drawing a cloth or passing a stick with the toes;
children may climb up their parents.
Relax at the end by walking around barefoot:
walk on different soil materials,
try to find out the materials with closed eyes!
It is important to exercise barefoot with both feet in turn.
Weblinks
Foot Gymnastic Games (http://www.barfusspark.info/en/gymn.htm)
Artistic gymnastics consists of prescribed sets of events, such as the vault, which are scored separately by judges to determine individual winners.
Rhythmic gymnastics consists of several events in which the gymnasts use objects such as balls and hoops while performing choreographed routines, which are scored separately and then added together to determine an overall winner.
In the trampoline event, gymnasts bounce on a springboard device and are judged on the movements they perform while airborne.
Once your gymnast is in a split ask her to bend her back leg so that her back foot is lifted from the floor and she reaches a 90 degree angle with that leg.
If you have discovered that your gymnast’s hips have not remained square while she performed this simple evaluation, you may be able to easily help her correct her hip placement by instructing her to pull the hip on the same side of the back leg forward.
Focus on your gymnast's hip position in relation to her shoulders in all stretches of this nature because once you allow a gymnast to turn at the hips rather than remaining square you will be allowing the muscles to move and gain flexibility in a different direction than intended.
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