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11 Signs You Were A Gymnast

"It's not called Gym-nice-tics"

Tayler Kochan

Feb 27, 2017

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I started gymnastics at the age of one in my moms gymnastics facility. I continued in gymnastics till about my junior year of high school. I was just okay at gymnastics, never great. Each day I definitely had my ups and downs in the sport of gymnastics. I remember in my senior year of high school, I tried to do tumbling again, and I just remember everything being SO SORE. My mom always says "If you don't use it, you loose it", and that is so true. Since not being in gymnastics, I have actually enjoyed teaching gymnastics more. Over the summer, I help teach with my mom at her gym. I can honestly never get away from gymnastics, and I would never want to. I've been apart of gymnastics since I was one years old, and at the age of nineteen, I occasionally help teach gymnastics, go to the different out of town gymnastics meets with my mom, and I always watch gymnastics on TV. Gymnastics will never leave me, and I'm okay with that.

Here's 11 signs that show you were involved in gymnastics at some point in your life...

1.When you tell people you did gymnastics, and they immediately ask you if you can do a flip..

Lol nope..

2.You sit on the floor in really weird positions that most people can’t even do. And, you don’t even realize it.

3.People always ask if you have seen “Stick It”

Ohhh yes I have. It's one of my favorite movies!

4.You still have most of your leotards

I have leotards still from gymnastics and dance….

5.Despite how much you disliked it sometimes, if you have a son or daughter, he or she will definitely do gymnastics.

6.You think about how fit (sort of lol) you used to be and get nostalgic for the good old days. And then, you continue sitting on the couch eating potato chips.

This gif describes my current life situation lol

7.Every time gymnastics is on TV, you watch it religiously.

8.When someone tells you cheerleading is like gymnastics, you question why you’re talking to this person at all.

I used to be a cheerleader back in the day, and the only similarity between cheerleading and gymnastics is the tumbling. Otherwise, they are two TOTALLY DIFFERENT things.

9.You often find yourself pointing your toes without realizing it.

I sometimes even find myself pointing my toes while I’m asleep…it is crazy.

10.When you try to explain a skill to a non-gymnast friend, they stare blankly at you until you end up pulling out your computer to find it on YouTube, because it is just too impossible to describe.

Any skill that Simone Biles does is impossible to describe, let's be honest.

11.If you go into a gymnastics facility, you feel like you have to touch EVERYTHING.

Look at all of the equipment.... how can you not want to swing on the bars, walk on the beam, or jump on the trampoline?

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11 Signs You Were A Gymnast

"It's not called Gym-nice-tics"

1.When you tell people you did gymnastics, and they immediately ask you if you can do a flip..

2.You sit on the floor in really weird positions that most people can’t even do. And, you don’t even realize it.

3.People always ask if you have seen “Stick It”

4.You still have most of your leotards

5.Despite how much you disliked it sometimes, if you have a son or daughter, he or she will definitely do gymnastics.

6.You think about how fit (sort of lol) you used to be and get nostalgic for the good old days. And then, you continue sitting on the couch eating potato chips.

7.Every time gymnastics is on TV, you watch it religiously.

8.When someone tells you cheerleading is like gymnastics, you question why you’re talking to this person at all.

9.You often find yourself pointing your toes without realizing it.

10.When you try to explain a skill to a non-gymnast friend, they stare blankly at you until you end up pulling out your computer to find it on YouTube, because it is just too impossible to describe.

11.If you go into a gymnastics facility, you feel like you have to touch EVERYTHING.

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4. Tomorrow actually comes. The inevitable and overpowering sense of procrastination is too strong to overcome.

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