Rocky Mountain Elite is now offering a Toddler Program! 

This program is structured to encourage parent/child interaction in a cheerleading environment. The parent(s) will aid their children by providing spotting assistance and helping to keep their young athlete focused. Balance, coordination, motor skill development, and social interaction are just a few of the main focuses. This class is for any young athletes, 18 months to 2 years old, whom are fully potty-trained.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 9 am to 10 am, and 10 am to 11 am. $10/drop-in class

Team Placement and Tumbling Practice Begin May 1st

Tumbling Practice Schedule

Mondays:

White and Columbia Blue 6:30-7:30pm

Royal Blue and Black 7:30-8:30pm

Team Placement Practice Schedule Will Be Posted By 11:59pm Monday April 23rd

 Any Questions Please Contact Jeff or Jen

jeff@rmecheer.com  jen@cherrycreekelite.com

For More Information Contact Jeff jeff@rmecheer.com

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Our primary mission at Rocky Mountain Elite has always been to provide the best quality instruction with the greatest opportunity to allow our athletes to grow and learn new skills each season.  

With that being said, we are excited to announce that Rocky Mountain Elite and Cherry Creek Elite are joining together to become United Elite All-Stars.  With the combination of the excellent coaching staff from both facilities this partnership is a guaranteed success.  By joining our athletes as well as our knowledgeable training staff together, we will be providing more teams, levels, and will increase the overall progression for our athletes to achieve success throughout the gym. 

In addition to Rocky Mountain Elite’s current staff, we will be welcoming new additions to form the United Elite instructional staff that hands down will be the most experiences instructional staff in the state of Colorado!

While not only uniting our coaching staffs, we feel confident that by uniting our families and athletes together we will continue the path of becoming the STRONGEST program in the state of Colorado.

We are very excited to announce the new colors for United Elite are royal blue, columbia blue, and black.  Since we will be taking the cheerleading world by STORM, this will be the new mascot of United Elite.  Uniforms and logos were recently designed to showcase our new program and a sneak peek will available very soon.      

While the complete merging of our two gyms will take time, our athletes will continue to train with the best of both facilities and remain a part of what we call our United Family!  We can’t wait to begin the 2012-2013 United Elite All-Star season!

Our primary mission at Rocky Mountain Elite has always been to provide the best quality instruction with the greatest opportunity to allow our athletes to grow and learn new skills each season.  

With that being said, we are excited to announce that Rocky Mountain Elite and Cherry Creek Elite are joining together to become United Elite All-Stars.  With the combination of the excellent coaching staff from both facilities this partnership is a guaranteed success.  By joining our athletes as well as our knowledgeable training staff together, we will be providing more teams, levels, and will increase the overall progression for our athletes to achieve success throughout the gym. 

In addition to Rocky Mountain Elite’s current staff, we will be welcoming new additions to form the United Elite instructional staff that hands down will be the most experiences instructional staff in the state of Colorado!

While not only uniting our coaching staffs, we feel confident that by uniting our families and athletes together we will continue the path of becoming the STRONGEST program in the state of Colorado.

We are very excited to announce the new colors for United Elite are royal blue, columbia blue, and black.  Since we will be taking the cheerleading world by STORM, this will be the new mascot of United Elite.  Uniforms and logos were recently designed to showcase our new program and a sneak peek will available very soon.      

While the complete merging of our two gyms will take time, our athletes will continue to train with the best of both facilities and remain a part of what we call our United Family!  We can’t wait to begin the 2012-2013 United Elite All-Star season!

Rocky Mountain Elite would like to invite all of our parents to enjoy a night out, while leaving your kids with us. On March 30th RME will be hosting a Parents Night Out from 6-10 p.m. $25 per kid. This will include pizza, movies, and games. This event requires pre-registration.
*A minimum of 8 children is needed for this event*

March 31st, Rocky Mountain Elite will be hosting a Tryout Prep Clinic. This is for all athletes who are getting ready for all-star or high school tryouts. The clinic will be 9:30-11:30 and $45.

April is right around the corner, which means our First Sunday of the Month Open Gym is happening this Sunday. April 1st from 3-5 will be a Special Two Hour Open Gym for $15.

Beginning April 1st Rocky Mountain Elite will be accepting donations of any item in your house you are looking to rid of during spring cleaning. We will then host a garage sale April 14th, beginning at 9 a.m.


RME will also be hosting a Dodgeball Tournament on April 14th. The cost per a 10 person team is $20. This event requires pre-registration.
*At least 10 teams are required for this event*

Every Tuesday in April from 5-6 will be our Co-Ed stunt class. This class will be $125, and is perfect for our athletes gearing up for college tryouts. This event requires pre-registration.

**PLEASE REMEMBER TO PRE-REGISTER FOR ALL EVENTS. PRE-REGISTRATION WILL ALLOW FOR BETTER STAFFING RATIOS AND PREVENT YOU FROM BEING CHARGED THE $10 PREMIUM.PLEASE PRE-REGISTER BY EMAILING LAURA AT LAURA@EPSCHEER.COM NO LATER THAN 24 HOURS IN ADVANCED.**

The CDC has a definition which is of value in defining Physical Fitness: The ability to carry out daily tasks with vigor and alertness, without undue fatigue, and with ample energy to enjoy leisure-time pursuits and respond to emergencies. Physical fitness includes a number of components consisting of cardiorespiratory endurance (aerobic power), skeletal muscle endurance, skeletal muscle strength, skeletal muscle power, flexibility, balance, speed of movement, reaction time, and body composition.
In the next sections we will discuss the components of Physical Fitness.

Cardiorespiratory Fitness

A quick search of Wikipedia shows us the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiorespiratory_fitness

“Cardiorespiratory fitness refers to the ability of the circulatory and respiratory systems to supply oxygen to skeletal muscles during sustained physical activity. Regular exercise makes these systems more efficient by enlarging the heart muscle, enabling more blood to be pumped with each stroke, and increasing the number of small arteries in trained skeletal muscles, which supply more blood to working muscles. Exercise improves the respiratory system by increasing the amount of oxygen that is inhaled and distributed to body tissue.  Cardiorespiratory fitness is also sometimes referred to as Aerobic fitness.  There are many benefits of cardiorespiratory fitness. It can reduce the risk of heart disease, lung cancer, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and other diseases. Cardiorespiratory fitness helps improve lung and heart condition, and increases feelings of wellbeing.  The American College of Sports Medicine recommends aerobic exercise 3-5 times per week for 20–60 minutes per session, at an intensity that maintains the heart rate between 65-90% of the maximum heart rate.”

For long term health, cardiorespiratory fitness is very important. For the purposes of tumbling, cardio fitness allows athletes to work hard during the extended practices and workouts necessary to Get Better At Tumbling.

Muscle Endurance, Strength, Power

There are a variety of opinions on strength training for young athletes. In my opinion, if you are going to Get Better At Tumbling, you need to be athletic. If you are going to be an athlete, you need to be strong. The best way to get stronger prior to puberty is body weight exercises. When you are done growing, you can get into weightlifting. The most basic set of bodyweight exercises that we use are the following:

• Sit-ups – The most basic level of abdominal fitness. I like to see athletes be able to do at least 125 crunches in one set.
• Push-Ups – 25 push-ups. If you cannot do good push-ups, start with negative only push-ups (starting at a good tight push-up position, and lower to the ground with a count of 5).

There are a lot of things we can do to improve physical strength, and a lot of different opinions. Do some research, and get stronger so that you can Get Better At Tumbling. Here a few places to start:

http://www.livestrong.com/article/424495-bodyweight-exercises-for-kids/

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/strength-training/HQ01010

Next time we will continue examining the physical aspects of Getting Better At Tumbling:

• flexibility
• balance
• speed of movement
• reaction time
• body composition

1. Physical – If your body is unable to physically perform a particular tumbling skill, it does not matter how much work you put in, you will be physically unable to perform your desired skill. Tumbling is a very physical activity. Many of the people that I have worked with over the years come in out of shape and unwilling to commit to the athleticism of our sport. If you cannot become more athletic, you will find your skills limited at some point. This has nothing to do with weight or body image, as is popularly reported in the media, it is simple physics. If you are not strong enough to perform a skill, it will not happen. If you are not flexible enough to withstand injury, you will get injured. This is a sport. Treat it like one.
2. Mental – Tumbling is a very mental activity. You need to know how to perform each skill, and for many people, you need to know why as well. Every athlete has a different set of “need to know” items about each skill. As an athlete, you need to figure out what those items are, and learn them. Everyone has a different way of learning. Tumbling is no different than history, or math. If your tumbling instructor is not coaching you the way that you learn, then your chances of success are limited. If you are a coach, and you are unable to adapt your coaching techniques, then you will find your coaching success similarly limited.
3. Emotional – Many of you have probably heard me say “You cannot tumble with emotions.” Emotions are our biggest enemy when learning a skill. If you are feeling the emotional pressure of tryouts, or if your coach is pressuring you to perform the skill (have you ever heard the phrase “I don’t know why she can’t do the skill”) – it will be next to impossible to learn new skills.

Stay tuned! We will be examining each of the three aspects in depth.
If you have any questions about tumbling, do not hesitate to ask – scott@epscheer.com