How do they expect gymnasts to lose weight every month? Most gymnasts aren't overweight, and even if they were, they could not continue to lose indefinitely. I have heard of gyms requiring athletes to stay within a certain range (which is not okay either). Bizarre...
It is totally up to you, but just remember that they are going to take at least a month to break in and they might be painful at first. When I first got grips about 2 months ago, I hated them because they dug into my wrists when I did anything with straight arms. I only just started doing good...
At my meet today, I did a good bar routine except that I had too much momentum on my kip and ended up falling over the bar... Didn't actually fall off but it looked kind of weird lol
Her voice itself isn't that bad in my opinion, though it is kind of annoying (it may not be fully mature as she is pretty young). It isn't much worse than other pop stars', anyway. The video wasn't even that bad, though it definitely wasn't very good. It was the lyrics. They were so...
I'm around her age and I get frustrated and cry sometimes, I think part of it is a hormone thing... However, I've never heard of anyone being so extreme about a teammate merely performing the skill; I agree with those who say maybe she should see a mental health professional.
I know it is hard...
Sounds like the level 7s at my gym. It makes me so mad, because their coach is actually a very nice guy and even though he never made me feel stressed out or pressured when I worked with him, I always thought he must be a bad coach because his gymnasts were so bad at gymnastics. Now I see that...
I gave up on underwear because I could never get it to fit right under my leo. Generally for practice I wear shorts and no underwear; my leos are velvet and pretty soft inside. For competition, I ordered underwear from I think 10.0, but it was the wrong color so I sent it back and ordered...
My gym competes about 1 meet per month. Most are more than an hour away. If there were more meets that were closer, I guess we might compete more than once a month.
My friend's mom told me she talked to the PT again about this. Her opinion remains the same, although I think it may have been implied that exercises could be done safely with some modifications. I don't know what these would be.
I have a loft bed and a papasan (sp?) chair, but other than that my room isn't that cool lol. The walls are light green except for one wall, which has flowery wallpaper (it was that way when we moved in). I have 3 posters of astronomical objects up by my bed. On my door are a bunch of stickers I...
If you are not planning to go into science, physics won't be necessary, but I recommend looking to see what other science options may be available to you; some schools offer classes in nutrition, neurology, etc. If faced with the choice between AP English and British Lit I would choose AP– but...
Once my cycle started coming to an end about 2 days prior to a big meet.
Tampon didn't work out and I had to wear a pad the whole time. I didn't do so well :p
Then another time I rolled my ankle walking back to my team after my beam routine! I had just rolled it pretty badly a few weeks back...
Once I sprained my ankle 2 days before a meet, unfortunately no refund. I think it has to be a couple weeks in advance, depending on the meet. They might be more generous if it's a serious injury.
Every couple of months or so, the gym plans a big outing for the entire team (all levels). These have included a halloween amusement park trip and a trip to the great escape water park. But I haven't gone because the price was too high (plus I hate amusement park type places anyway). I feel kind...
@dunno that's what I always heard, but we had a month of no meets and I guess my coach misjudged how long they would take to get used to-- she said herself she doesn't remember not using grips.
"You should be wearing wrist bands around your wrists under the grips, if you are not that would explain why the grips are moving so much and digging into you, because they should not be doing that, make sure you do them up tighly, if you can't have your coach or a team mate do them up...
My coach ordered grips for the entire level 5 team about 2-3 weeks ago. We were supposed to be used to them by the time the next meet rolled around, but we only have about 4 more practices and I seriously cannot do a good bar routine with them. Plus, now when I take them off, my bar routine is...