Archive for the ‘In the Gym’ Category

Athletes 101: How to effectively coach athletes who have ADHD

November 17th, 2011 | Featured, In the Gym, Your Athletes | Dcalodney | Comments Off

In much of the literature regarding research on ADHD, it’s fairly easy to take the words “school,” “classroom” and “workplace” and replace them with “cheerleading practice.” Parents experienced with ADHD recognize that children with excessive energy need to have it channeled in a positive, supervised environment.

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Making Over Your Gym

September 15th, 2011 | In the Gym | CBN Staff | Comments Off

Tweet CBN Aug/Sept 2011 Prepping your gym for the new season By Brianne Carlon   Just as an athlete must continuously improve her skill, gym owners must continually improve their space, and each new season brings new opportunities to do so. “People like to see constant improvement both with their child’s skills and with the [...]

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The Biz: Part-Time Team, Full-Time Spirit

May 3rd, 2011 | All Star Cheerleading, In the Gym | CBN Staff | Comments Off

Tweet The benefits of offering half- and quarter-year squads at your gym By: JoAnna Haugen There’s a misconception that in order to be successful, all-star teams must be year-long endeavors, and, as a consequence, nearly all gyms offer only full-time teams. However, a handful of gyms have discovered that the secret to success doesn’t [ital: [...]

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Open House: Comet All-Stars

May 3rd, 2011 | In the Gym | CBN Staff | Comments Off

Tweet Comet All-Stars Show Us Why This NJ Gym Shines By Morgan McMurrin If you have a dream, you can make it come true. Just ask Vincent and Jo-Anne Sangiovanni, owners of Comet All-Stars in East Brunswick, NJ. Their motto’s always been, “If you can believe it, you can achieve it!”  They never second-guessed opening [...]

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Service with a Smile

May 3rd, 2011 | In the Gym | CBN Staff | Comments Off

Tweet Keep your gym’s customer service offerings in good form. “People don’t randomly pick cheerleading programs. They came to us based on reputation or recommendation. That stands alone as a compliment and needs to be handled in that manner.” —Jason Janke, program director, Cheerz Cheerleading Gym, Bountiful, UT “If our clients have a clear understanding about what they [...]

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Coaches Roundtable: Part IV

May 3rd, 2011 | In the Gym | CBN Staff | Comments Off

Tweet This article is the fourth installment of a roundtable discussion we had with 14 coaches and gym owners at the JAM U Coaches Conference in June 2010. In this segment, we talk about the division of the workload at the gym. Fourteen coaches from eight North American gyms discuss the inner workings of their [...]

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Recruitment Games

January 18th, 2011 | All Star Cheerleading, Featured, In the Gym | CBN Staff | Comments Off

The struggle to keep athletes in your gym

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Coaches Roundtable

January 18th, 2011 | All Star Cheerleading, In the Gym | CBN Staff | Comments Off

Part III: Fourteen coaches from eight North American gyms discuss how they make their lower-level teams feel just as important as the Level 5 squads.

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Leasing vs. Owning Your Gym

January 18th, 2011 | All Star Cheerleading, Business Smarts, In the Gym | CBN Staff | Comments Off

Central Jersey Allstars and Calvert All Stars Cheer & Dance discuss owning vs. leasing their gyms.

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Athletes 101: The Textaholic

January 18th, 2011 | All Star Cheerleading, In the Gym | CBN Staff | Comments Off

How to get them off their phones and on the mat

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