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Cheer · Strength & Conditioning · Ages 13-15

Cheer Strength & Conditioning Practice Plan for 13 to 15 Year Olds

At 13 to 15, the engine completes COMPETITIVELY: full routine-length intervals (the two-minute-plus rounds: the mat's truth), jump and landing STRENGTH at depth (the flights' and glue's accounts funded hard), core at COMPETITION lengths, and recovery's discipline (the season sustainable: sleep, fueling, the week's structure).

This is a 75-minute session. General strength's guided recommendation arrives with the window, the gym's stunting-strength programs stay sovereign where they exist, and the competitive sentence lands: mats are engines' exams: the routine's last eight-count publishes every evening's deposits, loudly, in sparkle.

Practice Plan

Music Workout: The Mat's Engine

Routine-length rounds, the accounts at depth, and recovery as discipline. The last eight-count publishes tonight's deposits eventually.


Warmup · 10 minutes

Competitive Ramp

Duration10 minEquipmentmusic

Full spirit ramp: bounces, animals, squats, gardens, rituals, motions easy. The mat's engine warms performing.

Coaching Cue

Cue: "Ramp performing. Mats read warmups too."


Block 1: The Mat's Intervals · 25 minutes

Routine-Length Rounds

Duration25 minEquipmentmusic, timer

The truth's shape: 2-minute continuous rounds (bounces, motion sequences, jumps, climbers: the routine's full chaos, faces ON), 90 seconds rest, three rounds, work counted, faces graded with the falloff. Then the second-routine test: after full recovery (three minutes), ONE more round: competition days run routines twice; the engine rehearses the second.

Coaching Cue

Cue: "Two minutes of everything, face alive. The second routine is the season."


Block 2: The Accounts at Depth · 25 minutes

Flight and Glue Strength

Duration13 minEquipmentcarpet

The funding's depth: squats (deep, twelve), split squats (six per side: the lunge's progression), seat-drop lifts (ten), squat-jumps and lateral bounds stuck (four each), chanted, two rounds. The jump file's heights and the landings' silence both fund here, hard.

Coaching Cue

Cue: "Deep, split, lifted, stuck. The accounts fund hard now."

Core at Competition Length

Duration12 minEquipmentcarpet

The press's completion: hollow holds (thirty-plus), hollow rocks, side planks (twenty-five per side), bird-dogs, V-up progressions (the compression joining: five honest), two rounds. Routines rotate and fold constantly; the bank lends at length.

Coaching Cue

Cue: "Press at routine length. The folds borrow deep."


Finish · 15 minutes

Recovery Discipline and the Ledger

Duration15 minEquipmentcarpet, the log

The professional close: easy movement down, legs-up-the-wall (two conducted minutes), the week recited (team practices sovereign, home sessions slotted, sleep as training, fueling as fuel: restriction never), the ledger (intervals' counts and faces, accounts' numbers) filed, and the team cheer's solo edition, loud anyway. The engine closes sustainable.

Coaching Cue

Cue: "Recover on purpose, recite the week, cheer regardless. Sustainable is competitive."


What to watch today: the face's survival in round three and the second routine. Cheer's engine is graded in projection (the sport's cruelest and fairest test: sparkle surviving the burn), and the faces-on intervals build exactly it. When the face dies before the legs, the engine's work is projection's conditioning: alive at two minutes is the whole competitive difference.

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Common questions

What makes cheer's conditioning unique among sports?

Projection's load: routines demand full output WITH performed joy (the face alive through the burn), and the engine trains both together (faces-on intervals, sparkle's grading). The combination is the sport's exam: fit-but-dead-eyed fails mats that alive-and-honest passes.

How does the second-routine test serve competition?

Competition days run routines multiple times (warmups, performances, finals), and the recovered-then-once-more round rehearses the day's real shape: the engine that shows up twice. Its count against round one is the season's honest forecast, logged weekly.

Where does stunting strength fit?

At the gym's programs entirely: stunt-specific strength (bases' loads, flyers' body control) is progressed by coaches inside the sport's safety culture, never homemade. The home engine funds the universal accounts (jumps, landings, core, stamina); the gym's sovereign world builds its own.

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