A well known professional baseball player Babe Ruth once said, “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don 't play together, the club won 't be worth a dime.” This quote relates to cheerleading because individuals have to work together to achieve their goals and success. Everybody has their own individual talent, but when they are brought together and use teamwork to create something incredible. Cheerleading is a sport that calls for having good spirit, teamwork and a good work ethic. Most people hear the word cheerleading and think of it as just a hobby or something easy to do in your free time, but there are many things most people don 't know
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Practice may not take place if there is no coach present. If all rules are not followed during a cheer season, there can turn out to have some serious consequences. Each and every cheerleader needs to be aware of all the health risks they are at. “Cheerleading is considered “high-risk” for components of the female athlete triad, may attract females proficient in gymnastics, a sport noted for a higher-than-average number of eating disorders. (H. Thompson)” Most females think that cheerleaders have to be skinny because of the revealing uniforms they have to wear and may not be confident in them. Cheerleaders in their highschool years will exhibit dissatisfaction with their body and develop an eating disorder. A cheerleader needs to be physically fit to have good endurance to perform a great routine. Cheerleaders do not have to be skinny. These health risks also can be affected by injury. An average number of injuries in cheerleaders per year is 28.8%. Injuries occur all the time during sports. Most injuries are caused by improper skills and lack of a good attitude. Nicole Waters states in an article called What Goes Up Must Come Down, “Injury prevention can be achieved by proper warm up, balance and strengthening exercises.” This means that if a team stays focused and follow the rules as individuals and as a team while participating in a sport, less injuries will occur. Teammates need to stay committed and …show more content…
“Cheerleading is a staple of American schools and colleges, it has received little attention in scholarly research (H. Thompson).” Like most sports cheerleading is known to have multiple summer camps, practice regularly and compete in competitions. Cheerleading can be very time consuming especially in competition. Commitment is a big deal in the competition world because training can take many hours a week. Routines for a competition can range from sixty seconds to about two minutes and thirty seconds. Learning and training just for a sixty second routine could take hours of practice. Just training for a cheer squad in general can add up to many hours a week. “All Star” is a name used for cheer teams in competition that are not associated with a school. All individuals have to be strong in all areas of cheer to be accepted on a competition team. Those areas can include having skills for tumbling, stunting, jumps and motions. Competitions are taken very seriously in the cheer
Practice may not take place if there is no coach present. If all rules are not followed during a cheer season, there can turn out to have some serious consequences. Each and every cheerleader needs to be aware of all the health risks they are at. “Cheerleading is considered “high-risk” for components of the female athlete triad, may attract females proficient in gymnastics, a sport noted for a higher-than-average number of eating disorders. (H. Thompson)” Most females think that cheerleaders have to be skinny because of the revealing uniforms they have to wear and may not be confident in them. Cheerleaders in their highschool years will exhibit dissatisfaction with their body and develop an eating disorder. A cheerleader needs to be physically fit to have good endurance to perform a great routine. Cheerleaders do not have to be skinny. These health risks also can be affected by injury. An average number of injuries in cheerleaders per year is 28.8%. Injuries occur all the time during sports. Most injuries are caused by improper skills and lack of a good attitude. Nicole Waters states in an article called What Goes Up Must Come Down, “Injury prevention can be achieved by proper warm up, balance and strengthening exercises.” This means that if a team stays focused and follow the rules as individuals and as a team while participating in a sport, less injuries will occur. Teammates need to stay committed and …show more content…
“Cheerleading is a staple of American schools and colleges, it has received little attention in scholarly research (H. Thompson).” Like most sports cheerleading is known to have multiple summer camps, practice regularly and compete in competitions. Cheerleading can be very time consuming especially in competition. Commitment is a big deal in the competition world because training can take many hours a week. Routines for a competition can range from sixty seconds to about two minutes and thirty seconds. Learning and training just for a sixty second routine could take hours of practice. Just training for a cheer squad in general can add up to many hours a week. “All Star” is a name used for cheer teams in competition that are not associated with a school. All individuals have to be strong in all areas of cheer to be accepted on a competition team. Those areas can include having skills for tumbling, stunting, jumps and motions. Competitions are taken very seriously in the cheer