How To Condition For Cheerleading Video

Make sure your cheers are full of energy with great training and conditioning. Learn some cheerleading conditioning basics in this video.

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Lauren has been cheerleading since she was thirteen years old and coaching since she was eighteen. She is now the director of cheerleading at Orlando Gymnastics and Cheerleading. She founded the Orlando Storm All Star Cheerleading Organization with which she has won a national championship. She is also a member of the USASF and is safety certified by the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors.

LAUREN MUTTY: This next segment is going to be on conditioning, cheerleading conditioning. It is very common to other sports when you need to condition, so we are just going to show you the basics that you probably already know, basic push-up, sit-ups or crunches. And then there is more of a cheerleading move called the V-up that we use. Now, conditioning, you really want to do because you want to build strength and endurance. So one of the things that we do during our cheerleading practices, we will throw in our routine music, which is two and half minutes long, and I will just yell out things like jumping jacks or toe touches, and the girls will just continuously do those things for two and a half minutes. And that helps them build endurance. So right now, we are going to show you some strength conditioning, which Victoria is going to demonstrate for us. Just the basic push-up. If you can get into push-up position, please. Notice that her butt is not all the way up in the air like this and it is not all the way down in the ground. She is in a nice straight position. Actually, if you can hop up real quick and do this from the side. This way. Okay. So she is nice and straight. And when she goes to do--her hands are right next to her shoulders. So when she goes to go down, her arms are going to bend slightly, and she is not going to come all the way to the floor and then she is going to push back up. So do another one. And down and up. One more. Down and up. Notice her whole body is straight the whole time. Okay. Flip over. We are going to do some sit-ups. Okay. She is going to have her knees bent. These are usually fun when you have a partner to hold your feet for you. And she is going to do full sit-ups where she comes all the way up. Full sit-up. All the way up to her knees. All the way up. Her chest is going to come all the way up to her knees. Or she can do crunches which are mini versions of the sit-up. Okay. Now, the most classic cheerleading sit-up is called a V-up, where she is actually going to be facing this way. She is going to lay back and she is going to have her entire body laid out straight, and she is going to sit up into a V. So she is basically going to be doing a toe touch on the ground, except her legs are going to be--her arms are going to be - there you go - right next to her legs. And up, V, up. And V, up. Nice, pretty V. There you go. And if you can stand back up. That is our basic stretching and our basic conditioning for cheerleading.

How to Condition for Cheerleading Video

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