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Stay healthy, have fun with it, and embrace all the moments. Because anything can happen - Simone Biles
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In an era where even the least decorated human being can have a highly public profile, the desire for perfection has become rampant. Crafting the perfect wardrobe, the perfect job, the perfect family and the perfect life has become an obsession among many, especially the social media-infused millennial generation. And with quarterly earnings being reported on as if they were a sporting event, businesses leaders, too, feel the need for perfection.
However, in her new book, It’s Not About Perfect: Competing for My Country and Fighting for My Life, Shannon Miller makes a persuasive argument for this being the wrong approach to work and life. Her lessons apply not only to her…
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Girls no more: why elite gymnastics competition for women should start at 18
Athletes – including former Olympians – are now calling for an increase in the minimum age for senior international competition from 16 to 18. By raising the age, we can discourage behaviour that has historically enabled abuse in the sport.
There's a huge misconception about how Olympic gymnasts like Simone Biles get their bodies
There's a huge misconception about how Olympic gymnasts like Simone Biles get their bodies.
Winning at all costs – how abuse in sport has become normalised
In a moving letter on Twitter, top British gymnasts have reported that abuse in their sport is “completely normalised”. These athletes, including current Olympians and senior competitors, are uniting to speak out about the physical and psychological abuse they have experienced and witnessed in their sport.
The New Gymnastics
My object is to submit, for the consideration of the readers of the "Atlantic," a new system of physical training, adapted to both sexes, and to persons of all ages and degrees of strength.
Bend It: The Science of Gymnastics
A slew of high-tech innovations have vaulted gymnastics to the forefront.
Beyond Larry Nassar
The author of Little Girls in Pretty Boxes on gymnastics’ culture of abuse.
Hazards: Gymnastics Grades High in Injuries, Too
It’s not all handsprings, cartwheels and round-offs. It’s also sprains, dislocations and fractures. Gymnastics, a new study finds, can take a heavy toll on its young practitioners’ bodies.
How Does a Gymnast--Or Even a Fitness Walker--Keep From Falling?
The brain constantly strives to reconcile its own internal picture of the world with the incoming sensory flood from eyes, ears and other sensory inputs—a process that lets us run, walk and move about the world.
Not Just Ribbons And Rhinestones: The Truth About Rhythmic Gymnastics
Rhythmic gymnastics. It’s arguably the most beautiful sport in the world. But it’s also one of the most unknown and under-appreciated, stuck in the shadow of its older and more popular cousin, artistic gymnastics – the sport with the bars, vaults, balance beams, and tumbling.
Post-Olympic
“Gymnastics doesn’t last all your life,” Hong said in an interview with the podcast GymCastic. (Disclosure: I occasionally guest host GymCastic podcasts.) They peak by the time they’re 16, and then college is the final stop. Unlike football, baseball and basketball, NCAA women’s gymnastics doesn’t prepare athletes for a professional sports career—there is no such thing as professional gymnastics. It doesn’t prepare them for international-caliber competitions either.
Rio 2016: Why being as flexible as an Olympic gymnast isn’t necessarily a good thing
But it turns out many of the benefits of flexibility and stretching have been overstated. I asked five researchers, physiologists, and trainers who work with elite athletes (including Olympians) to share what they know about flexibility. Here’s what I learned.
The Future of Men’s Gymnastics Is Not Well-Balanced
Women’s gymnastics, even while weathering horrific scandals, has prospered and drawn crowds. The audience to watch men continues to shrink. Why?
The Risks Of Early Gymnastics
Madeleine Brand talks to Michael Sokolove, author of the new book Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports. Sokolove believes pushing young girls to train and compete for sports, including gymnastics, can have serious health effects.
U.S.A. Gymnastics Still Values Medals More Than Girls
The young women who have given heartbreaking accounts of the sexual abuse they endured have done their part, and the media is finally giving the story — perhaps the biggest sex abuse case in sports history — the attention it deserves. But U.S.A. Gymnastics remains stuck in survival mode...
What happens to a gymnast’s body as it ages?
The trials and triumphs of elite sporting don't come without cost - effects on the body can persist even decades after retirement.
Why Extreme Gymnastics Will Dominate the Rio Olympics
Has athleticism eclipsed aesthetic spirit? Dvora Meyers’s book traces the evolution of the sport.
Gymnast Shannon Miller Offers Lessons For The Perfection Generation
The belief that trying is worth it even if you never make it to that final line is what inspired success in both of Miller’s battles. Along the way she learned that imperfection is what reveals character and makes life worth living.
5 Tips to Staying Healthy in Gymnastics
Here are 5 tips to staying healthy in gymnastics to help keep gymnasts flipping on the beam, tumbling on the floor, vaulting through the air, and swinging on the bars.
6 reasons why gymnastics is great for kids
Gymnastics is one of the most comprehensive exercise programs available to children as it incorporates a number of different skills into one sport such as strength, flexibility, speed, balance, coordination, power and discipline.
10 Life Skills Learned From Gymnastics
Being a gymnast has many positive lessons that are taught outside of the sport. Being a gymnast myself for 12 years, it has taught me many life skills and lessons that I will use for the rest of my life. Many of these skills gymnasts learn through the daily grind in the gym. These life lessons will help each gymnasts grow as a person as well as a gymnast.
11 Health Benefits of Gymnastics, According to Science (+10 Tips for Beginners)
Gymnastics is one of the best exercises for training for overall health and wellness. Multiple studies on this subject prove the importance of gymnastics for bone, muscle, and cognitive health. It’s not only about building muscle and improving flexibility, gymnasts make healthy lifestyle choices, are confident, and are able to make smart decisions to become successful adults.
All Gymnasts
This is a place where Gymnastics enthusiasts can hangout, share knowledge, and help one another.
Balance 180
The balanced approach to gymnastics that we provide includes expertise in multiple fields. Our team has specialists in physical therapy, medicine, occupational therapy, adaptive gymnastics, psychology, orthopedics and many more.
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Xtreme Gymnastics
Xtreme Gymnastics is a place where kids are inspired to get fit and learn in an exciting environment. Your kids will thrive through a wide variety of programs to develop the strength and self-esteem they need to achieve success.
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