4 Simple Ways to Eat Healthy as a Gymnast

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Eat Healthy as a Gymnast

Killer training and practice are not the only things that help a gymnast’s body and performance. One factor that also determines a gymnast’s success is a healthy and proper diet.  Good nutrition will help athletes focus, endurance, and body control. A healthy diet can also help prevent some injuries like stress fractures. Not only does a proper diet help performance, … Read More

10 Life Lessons I Learned from Gymnastics

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As I look back on my gymnastics career, I realize that I gained much more than just trophies and ribbons. For a long time, gymnastics was my life. I lived and breathed gymnastics on a daily basis, and I wouldn’t change any of it if I had the chance. As an adult looking back on my adolescent and teenage gymnastics … Read More

5 Tips to Stay Healthy in Gymnastics

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Stay Healthy in Gymnastics

To stay healthy in gymnastics is indisputably important regarding this sport that is basically dealing with flexibility, balance, and control. Such a wrong movement, position, and some other factors may lead to certain injury or any issue that surely affects the athletes’ overall performances. To help every gymnast achieves their goals, these are some key tips to keep gymnasts’ body … Read More

This One Exercise Will Improve Your Jumps And Tumbling By 20%

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Photo credit: Sean Hansford, ISA National Gymnastics Finals 20th Feb 2011 This article was originally written by Coach Sahil M. from TumblingCoach.com and is Republished (and revised towards gymnasts) under permission, granted to allgymnasts.com on Aug 7th, 2015. Let’s face it, every gymnast under the sun – no matter how good he or she already is, wants higher jumps along … Read More

5 Unusual Ways To Overcome Mental Block in Tumbling

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This article was originally written by Coach Sahil M. from TumblingCoach.com and is Republished under permission, granted to allgymnasts.com on Aug 7th, 2015. Let’s face it, mental blocks are very real and something you may have to deal with at some point in your tumbling career. Personally, I hope you never get them and tumble fearlessly forever. However, after coaching … Read More

A Salute to Gymnasts Who Never Stand on the Podium

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Unless you spend a great deal of time in a gym, you don’t understand everything that goes into creating gymnast. Gymnastics is more than four routines, high scores, and podiums. In fact, if an athlete wants to get shiny new bling and their chance to salute the audience from the podium, they need to put in work, and lots of … Read More