HARDEST sports to play

mickeyXX
Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:15:42 +0000

GYMNASTICS IS THE HARDEST SPORT. If not the hardest, it’s in the top 3. People don’t realize how hard this sport actually is until you try it competitively. Gymnasts look little and cute but in reality they’re 10 times stronger than most people. Personally at the age of 8 I was training 24 hours a week, and I’m talking hardcore training. Now I’m an elite gymnast and spend 40+ hours in the gym every week and have to be homeschooled to fit it in. My practices consist of 1 hour warm up (usually suicides, plyo, running…some sort of cardio), 2 hours conditioning, then 1 hour on each event (vault bars beam floor). At the end of practice we do another hour of conditioning mixed with flexibility. It’d hard. I can’t count how many times I’ve cried in the gym usually out of fear. It takes some serious guts to do a back flip on a four inch wide balance beam. One last point is look how many proffesional hockey, baseball football, and basketball players there are in the US. Theres tons, but theres only 6 gymnasts than go to the top (the olympics).