Photo session of rhythmic gymnasts up to ten years old. Only the most beautiful gymnasts! a lot of photos. Shin Soo Jin. The Republic of Korea

Children at the age of 11 need proper physical development, since prolonged sitting at a school desk and increased fatigue can negatively affect their posture and muscle tone. You need to exercise to improve blood circulation and reduce stress levels. Let's talk about what sports are useful for 11-year-old children in more detail.

Studies have shown that children who are physically active do better in school. Playing sports has a positive effect not only on academic performance, but also on improving the health of the child.

Gymnastics for children 11 years old

Gymnastics is a great way to relieve tension, develop dexterity and correct posture. Gymnastics classes are especially relevant for girls aged 11: they develop plasticity and help to form a beautiful figure. During classes, children perform gymnastic and acrobatic elements and stretching. Typically, gymnastics lasts about 60 minutes, so children have time for other hobbies.
Gymnastic exercises look like this:

Charging for children 11 years old

Exercise is an essential part of every child’s daily routine. Exercises are performed for children 11 years old for the purpose of general strengthening of the body and for weight loss. You can do it at home, about 30 minutes every day. You need to choose good music, tune in to the positive and do exercises with your child.
Exercises for children 11 years old will help develop endurance, flexibility in the child and correct excess weight problems, if any.
The set of classes can be arbitrary and include:

• jumping and stretching;
• walking in place;
• lunges and push-ups;
• squats, exercises with small dumbbells.

During classes, exercise equipment can also be used, for example, a bicycle or walking exercise machine. But it’s best to do the exercises together and without using additional equipment - this way you’ll get a great boost of energy and a good mood for the whole day.

What clubs and sections are there for girls and boys aged 11?

Where to send a child: a boy or a girl at 11 years old? Which clubs and sections are most suitable for children at this age?
You need to know that different age groups of children have their own standards for physical activity. For schoolchildren aged 11, the norm is 20,000 steps per day, that is, children should move about 6 hours every day. Lack of mobility can lead to negative consequences: it poses a real threat to your child’s health.
So which sport should you choose? Remember, it all depends on what your child wants, on his desires and aspirations. If you want to enroll him in a club just for general development, choose swimming, gymnastics, rock climbing, or kettlebell lifting. If your child is determined to achieve success in sports, you can sign him up for bobsleigh, biathlon, or powerlifting. You also need to focus on the child’s temperament, level of physical development, flexibility and reaction speed.

Remember that if you have any chronic diseases, you can sign up for a sports section only after consulting a doctor. Some sports aggravate the course of a particular disease. So, swimming can worsen sinusitis, and winter sports can worsen allergies to cold or asthma.

When choosing sports sections, be guided by the wishes of your child and common sense. Be sure to develop your child, and he will not have problems with mental and physical health.

On the last Saturday of October, All-Russian Gymnastics Day is celebrated. This year it fell on October 25th. In honor of the holiday, we decided to remember the most beautiful Russian gymnasts.

YANA BATYRSHINA

Honored Master of Sports of Russia, represents rhythmic gymnastics in individual exercises. The girl started doing gymnastics at the age of 5, and already at 12 she passed the most difficult selection for the national team of the Uzbek SSR. After the collapse of the USSR, the family moved to Russia, and Yana competed for our country at competitions.

Batyrshina left big sports at the age of 19, and a year later she became the head coach of the Brazilian rhythmic gymnastics team. In general, during her sports career the girl won 180 medals and more than 40 cups. In addition, Yana worked on television, where she hosted sports programs. In her personal life, the gymnast is also doing well - Yana is married to the famous producer Timur Weinstein, with whom she gave birth to two daughters.

ALINA KABAEVA

Alina, now 31 years old, remains one of the sexiest and most desirable female athletes. Just like Yana Batyrshina, Alina was born in Tashkent. She began taking her first steps in sports at the age of 3.5, and at the age of 12, Kabaeva and her mother moved to Moscow to train with Irina Viner.

At the age of 12, Kabaeva and her mother moved to Moscow to train with Irina Viner.

She has played for the Russian national team since 1996 and won many awards. She stopped sporting activities in 2007. Having completed her sports career, Alina did not give up social life; at one time she often appeared on television and posed for magazines. In 2007 she became a State Duma deputy, and seven years later she left this post. Kabaeva’s personal life was actively discussed in the media, in particular, there were rumors about her affair with President Putin. True, there was no confirmation of this information.

Three songs are dedicated to Alina: “Play on Words” - “Alina Kabaeva”, Murat Nasyrova - “Don’t Cry, My Alina!” and Maxim Buznikin - “Alina is half of my destiny.”

EVGENIYA KANAEVA

The mother of this native of Omsk was a master of sports in rhythmic gymnastics, but it was her grandmother who brought the girl into the sport. At the age of 12, Evgenia was invited to a training camp in Moscow as part of a group of young gymnasts. After her first serious performance, Kanaeva was noticed and invited to train at the Olympic reserve school. She, like many successful Russian gymnasts, was taken under her wing by Irina Viner. During her sports career, Zhenya almost always won gold, and Laysan Utyasheva once said about her: “Kanaeva is Chashchina and Kabaeva combined.”

In 2012, the young gymnast completed her sports career, a year later she married hockey player Igor Musatov, and a year later she became a mother. What Evgenia is doing now is not known for certain. Most likely, he is fulfilling his dreams: learning to draw, play the piano, mastering foreign languages ​​and computers, and also raising his son.

LAYSAN UTYASHEVA

At first, the parents wanted to send Laysan to ballet, but by chance, while in line at the store, gymnastics coach Nadezhda Kasyanova noticed the girl, noting the extraordinary flexibility of her joints. Since then, the girl has been doing gymnastics. At the age of 12, Laysan moved to Moscow, and two years later she received the title of Master of Sports. The gymnast won many awards, but in April 2006 she was forced to end her sports career.

After finishing her career, Laysan became a sports commentator and TV presenter, and also starred in several TV series. Now Utyasheva lives happily married to Comedy Club resident Pavel Volya, raises her son Robert and hosts a TV show on the TNT channel “Dancing”.

IRINA CHASCHINA

The girl started doing gymnastics at the age of 6, and already at 12 she joined the Russian national team. While still a junior, Irina took first place at the CIS Spartakiad and won the Russian championship among girls two times in a row. At the age of 17, Irina was noticed by Irina Viner, who began to raise the gymnast to become an Olympic champion. Together with Alina Kabaeva, Chashchina became a star in rhythmic gymnastics, her name thundered throughout the world. But in 2001, a doping scandal occurred, the gymnast lost her awards and was disqualified from the sport for two years.

Together with Alina Kabaeva, Chashchina became a star in rhythmic gymnastics, her name thundered throughout the world.

Having completed her sports career, Chashchina began to develop other projects. The gymnast took part in several creative projects (“Circus with the Stars” and “Dancing on Ice”), wrote a book, opened her own rhythmic gymnastics school and has appeared more than once for the Russian version of Maxim magazine.

It is worth noting that Chashchina is not free - in 2011 she married Dmitry Medvedev’s friend, businessman Yevgeny Arkhipov. The couple does not have children yet.

MARGARITA MAMUN

Margarita is only 18 years old, but she has already managed to shock the world of sports with her achievements in gymnastics. At the age of seven, together with her sister, Rita began attending a gymnastics section, and at the age of eleven she began to consciously prepare for a career as a gymnast. Mamun achieved her first great success in 2011, when she became the Russian champion in exercises with clubs, ball and hoop, and in 2013 she consolidated her results. Interestingly, because of her origin, Irina Viner calls Rita the “Bengal Tiger”. (She is half Russian, half Bengali. Her father is from Bangladesh). Many compare the girl with Evgenia Kanaeva, only Mamun herself does not see any similarity, except for her love of gymnastics.

KAROLINA SEVASTYANOVA

At the age of 5, her mother brought Caroline to a rhythmic gymnastics school. In the first month of classes, children were assessed and promising ones were selected. The girl did not pass the selection process and was not accepted into the school. But Carolina didn’t forget about gymnastics and decided to become a gymnast at all costs. Later, the girl ended up in a sports center, where they took everyone, and after a while she ran into Irina Viner. Since then, Carolina has competed in the Russian national team. But after the 2012 Olympic Games, she decided to end her sports career (at the age of 17).

By the way, Sevastyanova was recognized as the most beautiful athlete of the CIS countries at the Games in London. At one time, there were rumors on the Internet about Caroline’s affair with the famous hockey player Alexander Ovechkin. The only confirmation of this gossip is joint photographs of Caroline and Alexander on vacation in St. Tropez.

ULYANA DONSKOVA

The victory gave the gymnast strength, and she began to train even harder.

Like Carolina, Ulyana began doing gymnastics at the age of 5. The first few years of training brought virtually no results, but Ulyana did not back down. The efforts were not in vain, and in 2000 the girl won the regional championship in the first category. The victory gave the gymnast strength, and she began to train even harder.

The gymnast became the world champion for the first time on September 12, 2009 at the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Japan. Ulyana will never forget this date! After winning the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the girl and her friend Karolina Sevastyanova ended their sports career. What Donskaya is doing now is not known for certain.

YANA LUKONINA

Little is known about this Russian gymnast. We only know that Yana was born in Ryazan and has been playing for the Russian national team since 2006. Compared to her colleagues, Lukonina does not have many awards. The injury is to blame for everything, because of which Yana had to quit sports and take up coaching.

However, Yana gets great pleasure from coaching: “I like working as a coach, working with children is a pleasure. Of course, responsibility is felt. In addition to gymnastics, they can ask some everyday questions and ask for advice. Of course, I try to help them.".

DARIA DMITRIEVA

Another gymnast who has already completed her sports career. Daria began training in gymnastics at the age of 8 under the guidance of the Honored Coach of the USSR Olga Buyanova. At the Russian rhythmic gymnastics championship, held in 2009, Dmitrieva received as many as three medals. That was incredible!

Daria ended her sports career in September 2013 due to an ankle injury.

Daria ended her sports career in September 2013 due to an ankle injury. It was very difficult for both Dmitrieva and her coach to make such a decision. But health is most important. Currently, the girl works as a coach at a rhythmic gymnastics club, passing on her experience to the younger generation.

Introducing a professional photographer, a master of sports photography, specializing in photographing rhythmic gymnastics, whose workfrom the world's largest competitionswe often (with attribution, of course) use it in our publications. Meet, Tom Theobald (Tom Theobald ) . This is what he writes about himself on his website.

I was born and live most of the year in San Diego , California, USA. I travel and take photographs olympic sports worldwide .
Since 1980, I have mainly been photographing world-class sports and, first of all, rhythmic gymnastics. Sometimes - figure skating and tennis (Grand Slam matches) Early I was influenced by such masters of photography as Rusi Gilbert from San Diego (taught me press photos), Neil Leifer, Alan Burrows and Eileen Langsley.
Rus taught me the basics in 1980. On the first day working with me, he said: “Show your face... people want to see face".
Since 1999 I have been using digital cameras (mostly Nikon at the moment).

It is impossible to listen to news about gymnastics on the radio, and reading dry lines in a newspaper or on a website is unbearably sad. Especially for those who have at least once watched the competition live. After all, gymnastics needs to be watched, it needs to be seen. And be sure to see the faces of the athletes. Tom Theobald helps you see gymnastics in its brightest and most unexpected manifestations. Here are a few of his favorites, as Tom himself admits: photos. It is not difficult to notice, by the way, that the photographer sympathizes with our gymnast Anna Bessonova. There are so many of her images in his collection :) But I won’t distract you. Enjoy!

(Left to right) Our Anna Bessonova, Alina Kabaeva and Irina Chashchina (both from Russia) celebrate their victory at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens

Anna Bessonova and Natalya Godunko froze at the end of their demonstration performance. Deryugina Cup, Kyiv, 2003

(Left to right) Simona Pauca and Ekaterina Szabo from Romania shared gold at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Let us remember that Soviet athletes did not take part in that Olympics due to the boycott of the games by the countries of the socialist camp. Romania became an exception and sent its athletes to the USA

Anna Bessonova in the World Cup final, Japan, 2006

Inna Zhukova from Belarus performs an exercise with a hoop at the Athens Olympics, 2004

Alina Kabaeva at the Olympics in Athens, 2004

Almudena Cid from Spain on the carpet with a ribbon at the Sydney Olympics, 2000

Anahi Sosa of Argentina makes waves at her home in Cordoba, Argentina in September 2006

Anna Bessonova at the Olympics in Athens, 2004

Anna Bessonova at the gala performance at the 2009 World Championships, Japan

Anna Bessonova at the gala performance at the Mobiltel Cup 2002 in Sofia, Bulgaria

Anna Bessonova at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing

Anna Bessonova at Euskalgym International in Durango, Spain in November 2008

Anna Bessonova at a gala performance at the European Championships in 2004 in Kyiv

Anna Bessonova at the Beijing Olympics, 2008

Anna Bessonova prepares for a gala performance at the Deryugina Cup in Kyiv, 2003

Elena Vitrichenko at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney

Evgenia Kanaeva from Russia at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing

Evgenia Kanaeva at a gala performance at the World Cup Portimao, Portugal in April 2008

Anna Bessonova, Natalya Godunko and Tamara Erofeeva. Gala performance. Deryugina Cup. Kyiv. 2003

Galina Beloglazova (USSR) at the awards ceremony in 1986 at the Goodwill Games in Moscow

Galina Beloglazova performs an exercise with clubs at the Goodwill Games in Moscow in 1986

Hungarian group members are preparing to perform at the World Cup Budapest in March 2009

Inga Tavdishvili (Georgia) performs with the ball at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney

Inna Zhukova (Belarus) at the 2003 World Championships, Budapest, Hungary

Inna Zhukova with a ribbon at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing

Irina Chashchina (Russia) at the 2004 Olympics in Athens

Medalists (from left to right) Alina Kabaeva and Yulia Barsukova (Russia) with Yulia Raskina from Belarus at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney

Medalists (from left to right) Anna Bessonova, Evgenia Kanavea, Inna Zhukova on the podium at the Beijing Olympics, 2008

Medalists (from left to right) Irina Chashchina - silver, Alina Kabaeva - gold, Anna Bessonova - bronze greet fans at the 2004 Olympics in Athens

Medalists (from left to right) Yulia Raskina (silver), Yulia Barsukova (gold) and Alina Kabaeva (bronze) at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney

Mojca Rode of Slovenia cheers on Alina Kabaeva as she signs autographs at the 2008 European Championships in Turin, Italy

Bessonova and Godunko, Deryugina Cup, 2003, Kyiv

Tamara Erofeeva (Ukraine), gala performance. 1998, Goodwill Games, New York

Yulia Barsukova with the ball at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney

Yulia Raskina finished performing with the ball at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney

Yulia Raskina performs with a jump rope at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney

Photos were reviewed by Mikhail REUTSKY