Raising a teenager is hard in itself, let alone trying to raise one in a #dietculture infused sport like gymnastics. For parents and coaches who understand the great risk and high prevalence of disordered eating in the sport, walking on egg shells and trying not to...
As a former gymnast, I love gymnastics with all my heart, but I developed some really strange behaviors and habits with food + my body during the sport. It took a long time to unlearn these. Ultimately, these struggles ended my gymnastics career. Your (or your...
Gymnastics is an aesthetic sport, defined as “concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty”. This can be problematic as our appreciation for body diversity within the sport of gymnastics is not quite where it should be, but things have improved. The truth is,...
