Performance Criteria in Aerobic Gymnastics – Impact on the Sportive Training

The aerobic gymnastics, the newest sporting branch included by the International Gymnastics Federation in the official competitions, represents one of the sporting subjects where Romania constantly obtained good results at international level, due to some valuable technicians who continuously innovated the content of the coaching sessions, as well as to some exceptional gymnasts, able to valorize their biomotric potential and their ability to show technical accuracy in execution.In the last years, as in other sporting branches, also aerobic gymnastics incurred changes in regulation with significant impacts on the content and dynamics of the exercises, as well as on the functional stress level caused by such exercises, all those transposing in coaching methods and contents addressing especially the targeted performance criteria.Practice proved that in the last years, out of the three performance criteria, the Romanian sportsmen obtain high grades for Difficulty and Execution elements and low grades for Artistic element, which integrates the music and musicality, aerobic content, general content, use of space and artistic sub-criteria.In such context, we aim to optimize the artistic coaching by using a wide range of bodily and musical techniques applied under functional stress conditions as closer to the actual competing functional stress conditions as possible.