Why Cheerleading Is A Sport
Do you believe doing flips, jumps and shouting is a sport? Cheerleading is a sport. Seventy-two percent of people believe it is and twenty-eight percent believe it is not a sport, according to Debate.org. I am one of those people who not only believe cheer is a sport, but know it is a sport. Although there was a court ruling years ago that declared it to not be a sport, there is no reason why cheer should not be considered a sport. It meets all of the requirements of being a sport and it involves a lot of hard work and dedication! First off, do you know the actual definition of a sport? If not, this is what it is, “an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or
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This means you use your arms a lot. The main muscles you use are your pectoralis major and minor muscles in your chest, your deltoid muscles in your shoulders, and your latissimus Dorsa muscles in your back. You use these muscles when doing a single arm-swing motion in a jump, when you lift a flyer in the air and put them in a pyramid and also when you tumble. Some stretches the cheerleaders do to strengthen these muscles include doing pushups and chest stretch. This helps them become a little more flexible and ready to lift people. In fact, have you ever realized cheerleading is kind of like football? They have different names for different motions, drills, and cheers just like football players have names for different actions or ways they are going to grab the ball back and things of that matter. They are very similar in more ways than just that. If you consider football a sport, you should consider cheer a sport too. Even if it is true that the federal court declared cheer to not be a sport back in 2010, according to http://www.livestrong.com/article/435894-reasons-why-cheerleading-is-a-sport/, there are plenty of reasons it is. 2010 was six years ago. Lots of things have changed since then. Cheer has become more competitive and more work. Most people believe cheer isn't a sport because they only see the cheerleaders on the sidelines of a game. They haven't seen them in the competitions. I might even agree with you that sideline cheer isn't much of a sport, but that's because it's just practice for
This means you use your arms a lot. The main muscles you use are your pectoralis major and minor muscles in your chest, your deltoid muscles in your shoulders, and your latissimus Dorsa muscles in your back. You use these muscles when doing a single arm-swing motion in a jump, when you lift a flyer in the air and put them in a pyramid and also when you tumble. Some stretches the cheerleaders do to strengthen these muscles include doing pushups and chest stretch. This helps them become a little more flexible and ready to lift people. In fact, have you ever realized cheerleading is kind of like football? They have different names for different motions, drills, and cheers just like football players have names for different actions or ways they are going to grab the ball back and things of that matter. They are very similar in more ways than just that. If you consider football a sport, you should consider cheer a sport too. Even if it is true that the federal court declared cheer to not be a sport back in 2010, according to http://www.livestrong.com/article/435894-reasons-why-cheerleading-is-a-sport/, there are plenty of reasons it is. 2010 was six years ago. Lots of things have changed since then. Cheer has become more competitive and more work. Most people believe cheer isn't a sport because they only see the cheerleaders on the sidelines of a game. They haven't seen them in the competitions. I might even agree with you that sideline cheer isn't much of a sport, but that's because it's just practice for