Programs

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Calgary & Area

How Our Programs Work

CAPTivate Gymnastics does not own a gymnastics facility. We rent space from a "host gym" for each of our programs. Each program runs out of the same host gym, on the same day, at the same time, every week, with the same coach(es) and the same teammates.

All of our programs (except "Intermediate+ Acro" and "Advanced Artistic") are appropriate for all skill levels, from brand new beginners to experienced gymnasts, all coached by knowledgeable, encouraging coaches, resulting in a full-body, functional, and fun workout. Our coaches are specifically trained on how to coach a wide variety of skill levels all at once, and many of our programs include coaches training as athletes who are happy to provide feedback as well.

We offer make-up classes! For any class that you have to miss, you simply fill out our Make-Up Class Form (at least 8 hours in advance) and you can choose to attend another gymnastics class anytime until the end of the session. For example, if you have to miss your regular Thursday class in Week 2, you can train on a Tuesday AND a Thursday in Week 6, so that you still get to do a full session of classes. We are proud to be the only adult gymnastics program with make-up classes anywhere in Canada!

Consider training two or three times a week! You will progress much faster doing gymnastics more than once a week. Athletes doing more than one program per session get big discounts!

Program Styles

Artistic Gymnastics

Artistic Gymnastics includes training on bars, balance beam, vault, and floor. Depending on the facility, this program may also include rings, parallel bars, pommel horse, trampolines and tumble tracks. This program is the full package for cardio, strength training, agility, balance, and functional fitness.

Advanced Artistic requires familiarity with back handsprings on floor, front handsprings on vault with a springboard, and kips on bars.

Advanced MAG & WAG focus specifically on the apparatuses traditionally trained in Men's and Women's Artistic Gymnastics. For men, that would be vault, floor, rings, parallel bars, high bar, and pommel horse/mushroom. For women, that would be vault, floor, uneven bars and beam.

Trampoline & Tumbling

Acro & Tumbling

Acro & Tumbling includes partner and group acrobatics, acroyoga, and standing acro, as well as tumbling skills like handstands, walkovers, handsprings, aerials, and flips.

Intermediate+ Acro includes partner and group acrobatics, acroyoga and standing acro. No tumbling skills. This program is intended for people with 1+ years of acro experience.

World Gymnaestrada Prep Teams are also Acro & Tumbling programs, but with alignment from city to city, working towards specific long-term goals. See the lengthier description below.

Performance Teams are also Acro & Tumbling programs, but with participants working towards a choreographed group routine, to be performed non-competitively at a showcase with an audience.

Trampoline & Tumbling programs include trampoline, mini-tramp, tumble track, and sprung floor. They focus on skills such as shape jumps, handstands, cartwheels, handsprings, flips, and twisting, as well as trampoline-specific skills such as front/back/seat drops, etc.

World Gymnaestrada Prep Team

Preparing for World Gymnaestrada in Lisbon, Portugal, July 2027

World Gymnaestrada is an enormous international gymnastics festival that happens every four years. The next one is in Lisbon, Portugal in July 2027. There will be 18,000+ participants from over 60 countries! By numbers, it's bigger than the Olympics! The average participant age is 35, with people of all ages performing, from ages 2 to 93 years old.

In preparation to represent Canada in 2027, CAPTivate is running several World Gymnaestrada Prep Teams, in Calgary, Edmonton and Yellowknife, all training simultaneously on Sunday evenings. We will be working together but separately on acrobatics and tumbling skills that will be incorporated into the next CAPTivate World Gymnaestrada routine. We will not be working on any routine choreography. This Prep Team is for ALL skill levels, experience levels, and ages.

The cost of the prep team is the same as our regular programs, with the same registration and payment schedule. In addition, participants will have the option to get a head start on paying for the 2-year Sept 2025 - July 2027 World Gymnaestrada Team (approx. $6500 split into smaller payments over 2 years). We will also begin our team fundraising this year and we will have team-building social events too.

Joining the Prep Team is not a commitment to joining the 2-year Worlds Team afterwards. It is a chance for you to work with your future coaches, meet your future teammates, see your training facility, and learn more about the process. Similarly, you do not need to join the Prep Team to join the 2-year Worlds team in Sept 2025. The 2-week Trial Period policy and the make-up class policy apply to the Worlds Prep Team.

Please reach out if you want more information about our World Gymnaestrada 2027 team. It's going to be SO MUCH FUN!

“CAPTivate creates a culture of inclusivity and growth. Coaches and athletes alike are encouraging and supportive of each other, regardless of skill or fitness level. It's refreshing to see a group of people so invested in each others' growth and development as athletes.”