If you’ve ever wondered, worried or googled (maybe that’s why you’re here right now!) what’s normal in regards to puberty for the high-level gymnast, you are not alone. With so many “experts” on the topic out there, it’s hard to know what’s true and what’s old,...
Oh the “gymnast body”, the highly coveted physique supported by unwritten rules in a sport trapped in diet culture. There is no one “gymnast body”. There is a lot of confusion about the gymnast body, especially the growing gymnast body. A lot of career ending mistakes...
Gymnastics is a micro culture of our larger #dietculture. We live in a world that is consumed by thinness and health, and gymnastics is a more concentrated environment of our larger culture. So much of what our culture accepts as “normal eating” is in fact abnormal...
