Conditioning, Fitness, Health and Beauty for Cheerleaders.
An easy to follow recipe for making a sports drink that boosts your energy and helps replenish body fluids during and after strenuous activity.
Cardio typically isn't the most enjoyable aspect of training, but getting lean, however IS important. Here you'll find some great resources from our Bodybuilding Guide.
When you skip breakfast, you are likely to become tired when your brain and body run low on fuel. By mid-morning, you might grab a cup of coffee or wolf down a sugary candy bar to wake up again. This might work for a few minutes, but by lunch time you are hungry, crabby, and perhaps your mood might make you a little more prone to make unhealthy choices at lunch.
Diet and nutrition are often overlooked aspects of training and conditioning for Cheerleaders. Learn what to eat before a practice, competition, game or tryouts - Eating for Energy.
An alarming amount of athletes develop eating disorders in their quest to be thin and in their minds, perfect. Learn more.
This is a comprehensive site, covering everything from acne to sexually transmitted diseases. From our About Health for teens Guide.
Learn more about proper nutrition and diet, from out About Nutrition Guide, Rick Hall.
Looking to become more agile or better coordinated? Would you like to be able to jump higher and quicker? Or how about getting stronger and more powerful in your upper and lower body? This Cheerleading program was developed specifically for cheerleaders ages 8 & up. The exercises and drills included will help you develop the skills to become a better cheerleader. Reasonably priced.
A good workout, combining strengthening, power, endurance, and aerobics.
Circuit training is a great way for cheerleaders to improve coordination and build strength and endurance simultaneously.
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From the BCA Cheerleading magazine, a great article on jump training exercises.
Strong legs are important in all aspects of cheerleading. They help in building stunts and pyramids, they help in gymnastics, and they help in jumps.
From Fitnessanalyst.com. Most of the files here are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, but well worth the time to download.
Cheerleaders need strong abdominal muscles to jump better and improve their stunts and pyramids. Strong stomachs help in gymnastics as well. Good list of stomach exercises for Cheerleaders.
Good strengthening exercises for improving your stunting. Exercises for arms, wrists and legs, form Ms. Pineapple's cheer page.
