you know you're a gymnast when...

[gymnast98]

So there might be more threads on this but it's always a funny subject for us gymnasts and thought this might be fun. So post any " you know you're a gymnast when'"," gymnast habits/problems" ect. quotes! I'll start with a few...

• our vocabulary includes rips, wedgies, sweat, determination, and guts!
• you use your swingset to practice your bar routine.
• you sit in a straddle when you are watching TV.
• you have blisters on your hands for life.
• you have become attached to your grips.
• you can't remember a time when your hands were soft & uncallused
• you always have the sudden urge to do handstands-everywhere...
• when you see a curb it turns into a beam

So have fun and laugh

 

[d0nut_l0ver]

YKYAGW...

The first thing you look for in a playground is the bar
You go to the playground just to practice your moves
You prefer to walk around your house on your hands
You beg your parents to turn a room into your "gym room"
The first thing you do after you get a skill is post on the Chalk Bucket xD
You mistake flour for chalk! {It's happened...xD}

 

[SuperGirlmlm]

When I was little, I'd take a stick of chalk from the bucket in my garage and rub it all over my hands and swing on the bar at the playground.
I don't know how many times I was yelled at in elementary school for doing BHS's in the grass, and doing a layout thing on the swings, and doing my routine on the bar, and using the border of the playground for my beam routine.
When I'm taking a written test in gym, and we are told to "get comfortable" I always subconsciously get into my splits. It's just so natural, and when I look up, everyone's staring at me.
In the rare occasion that I have time to hang out with my non-gym friends, I'll just be walking through the park and I'll start doing my routine. Then, I'll hear, "she's doing it again"
Whenever I'm walking by a soccer field, I'll find the white lines and do my routine on them.

 

[jdbliese]

YKYAGW:

You're on your hands as much as your feet
You use more chalk than soap
You point your toes... all the time
The gym is your life and everything else is just spare time
You see an NFL player do a flip and you're completely unimpressed
You daydream in school and it's always about a routine
You're easily the strongest kid in P.E.
You can't get a job because you're at the gym too much
Kids at school complain about hour and a half practice and you laugh, hard.
Giants aren't jolly and green
The girls-compulsory routine music is literally the death of you
Everyone always asks you "WHOA! How do you do that!?" And the only answer you can give is, "Uh, I don't know. I just... Do."

 

[SuperGirlmlm]

YKYAGW:

You're on your hands as much as your feet
You use more chalk than soap
You point your toes... all the time
The gym is your life and everything else is just spare time
You see an NFL player do a flip and you're completely unimpressed
You daydream in school and it's always about a routine
You're easily the strongest kid in P.E.
You can't get a job because you're at the gym too much
Kids at school complain about hour and a half practice and you laugh, hard.
Giants aren't jolly and green
The girls-compulsory routine music is literally the death of you
Everyone always asks you "WHOA! How do you do that!?" And the only answer you can give is, "Uh, I don't know. I just... Do."

I couldn't have said it any better.

 

[gymunicorn]

I always daydream about practice in school... really bad habit... lol

 

[SuperGirlmlm]

YKYAGW:

You're on your hands as much as your feet
You use more chalk than soap
You point your toes... all the time
The gym is your life and everything else is just spare time
You see an NFL player do a flip and you're completely unimpressed
You daydream in school and it's always about a routine
You're easily the strongest kid in P.E.
You can't get a job because you're at the gym too much
Kids at school complain about hour and a half practice and you laugh, hard.
Giants aren't jolly and green
The girls-compulsory routine music is literally the death of you
Everyone always asks you "WHOA! How do you do that!?" And the only answer you can give is, "Uh, I don't know. I just... Do."

*McKayla's unimpressed face*
McKayla isn't impressed with NFl flips!!

 

[Gooshie]

First of all- I love all of these above- I am laughing a lot right now at how true they are!

YKYAGW:

Your Physcial Therapist is always on you for pointing your toes

You are on a first name bases with you Physical Therapist and Orthopedics

Your family laughs at how you sit on the couch because you are sitting in a complete pretzel

Your friends are raving about a routine and your response is- she should have pointed her toes