Free Post- Gym Story

For the past 2 weeks my gym (the place I do gymnastics at) made us start working out on Saturday's, which basically means no social life. We start gym at nine in the morning and end at three in the afternoon. For the first maybe hour to hour in a half we do conditioning and strength work, including arms, legs, stomach, back, cardio, etc. Then after conditioning we stretch for a good ten to fifteen minutes. Next we start working on our events. Levels seven through ten start on beam, then bars, then floor and vault is last. In between events we get a fifteen to twenty minutes lunch break at eleven thirty.

After lunch we then go do ballet, which is horrible. Let me explain, gymnasts trying to do ballet without looking ackward in some way is impossible. We look similar to elephants trying to ice skate. Ballet is just so unnatural for my teammates and I its ridiculous. Our coaches make us practice ballet because it will make our dance (leaps, jumps, turns, etc.) in our floor and beam routines look ten times better. Usually after ballet everyone is really tired so we just try to push through the last couple of hours of workout as much as possible, together.