Acrobatic gymnastics

I was not the ideal gymnast. My lanky body dwarfed the other girls in my gymnastics class, and my age created a clear divide – while most girls start gymnastics in pre-school, my first day on a tumbling mat was in second grade. In addition to minimal upper body strength, I was pigeon-toed, with my left leg longer than my right. But despite my disadvantages, I went to every practice I could, and decided that I would become the best gymnast I could be – and I was. For 16 hours a week, year-round, for

Nadia Comaneci is one of the world’s best-known gymnasts and is credited with popularizing the sport of gymnastics around the globe. Nadia began gymnastics in kindergarten with a local team. At age six, she was chosen to attend experimental gymnastics school after she was caught doing turning cartwheels in a schoolyard with her friend. At the age of fifteen, Nadia received a perfect 10 at the Olympic Game In Montreal. In all, she received six more perfect 10s in Montreal, as well as three gold medals

Gymnastics is one of the most demanding and dangerous collegiate sports. Marina and Rodriguez (2014) investigated the physiological demands of women’s competitive gymnastics routines. Post-exercise heart rate, oxygen uptake, and peak blood lactate concentration were studied from eight elite female gymnasts. The gymnasts reached their highest heart rates (183-199 beats/minute), their highest oxygen uptake (33-44 mL/kg), and their highest blood lactate levels (7-9 mmol) following the floor and the

pain throbbing and pulsating in your finger. However, when you are in such extreme pain and it’s getting hard to breathe that’s, when your body goes numb. You never think that the unthinkable is going to happen until it does, you never picture a gymnastics competition ending in an ambulance with someone shaking your head so that you stay conscious. Things change in a heartbeat but it’s not about how hard you fall, it’s about how strongly you stand back up. At the beginning of my high school years

I went back to the gym, where I had trained since I was seven years old. It was bouncing with many kids, bursting with excitement. I was one of those kids many years ago, not to know that one day that their dream is gonna have many twists and turns.That they might feel defeated and feel like they never gonna get back up again. But if they try hard enough they can do the impossible just like I did. A pounding, thrusting pain was coming from my head, while another sharp pain was going through my

It is common practice in college to venture outside of your comfort zone, which is exactly what the Auburn Parkour Club allows you to do. Founded in 2006 by Cody Robinson, the Auburn Parkour Club is an official Auburn affiliated club that trains in the athletic discipline of Parkour. Parkour “is the act of moving from point ‘a’ to point ‘b’ using the obstacles in your path to increase your efficiency” (“World Freerunning Parkour Federation”). We use the environment around us to help us obtain this

about the sport of gymnastics, she stood out as a leader amongst the group of young athletes. I knew then, that gymnastics was the sport for me! I continued my gymnastics career through my high school years until an injury brought my dreams of being a competitive gymnast to a crashing halt. Throughout my adult life I continued my love for the sport as well as teaching children through my at home daycare. In 2012 I decided to risk it all and applied to work for Gold Medal Gymnastics, Amanda Bordens’

going to gymnastics with my friend Annabelle, before the elite tournament. When we got there, we started with stretches in the class. Our teacher Ms. Wilson thought we were ready to do level six gymnastics. Annabelle and we gave it a try. I doubted that we could do it but I had to just believe.Level six one of the hardest levels in our gym. Most girls on this team were 12 and 13 and Annabelle and I were 9. The thing I hated was that we also had to do beam if we were put on level 6 gymnastics. I hated

Is Cheerleading a sport ? Waking up in the morning, with a rush of excitement . Quickly slipping on my uniform, getting hair and makeup done. Feeling the sequins on my bow, and standing tall.Lights shining brightly,crowd going crazy. We all look at each other with a rush of fear, then the music starts.Cheerleading is a sport because of the amount of conditioning, hours of practice and the competitions. . For example Cheer Extreme trains for 10 to 11 hours a week. According to

Gymnastics is unequivocally one of the primary facets of my life, and consequently, becomes the preeminent vehicle for many of the successes and challenges in my life. The most prominent challenge challenge presented by the sport is that of time: I simply don’t have remotely the time that the typical high schooler does, even the prototypical high-achiever. A forty-five minute commute to a three-or-more hour long practice, four days a week, year-round becomes quite the time crunch, and makes it difficult