ACTIVITIES: TTFN Gymnastics
As you may know, TTFN means “ta ta for now.” I’m very sad because I’m having to give up gymnastics while I’m pregnant. They say that you can’t do something that’s so high impact like that. So I’m really bummed about that. Don’t get me wrong, I’d gladly give it up for the safety of my child, but it also made me feel really good getting out and exercising like that. I just hope I can get back into it quickly enough after the baby is born.
ACTIVITIES: Gymnastics, Women’s All-Around [spoiler]
I am SO excited about the women’s all-around gymnastics! Ky and I watched it live last night, and, you can ask him, I was literally screaming when Nastia stuck all of her floor tumblings practically perfectly. And when they declared her the winner of the all-around, I was jumping up and down! They said, what, only two or three other American women have ever won the all-around before? Mary Lou Retton, Carly Patterson, maybe one other girl, and now Nasita Liukin!
On a personal gymnastics note, I went to gymnastics yesterday morning, and I had more fun and probably improved more yesterday than I had for the last two months. It helped that I was there for three and a half hours, but the guy that was the fill-in instructor was awesome! Usually, I only go on Saturdays, but I think I’m going to at least go on Thursday if not Thursday and Saturday. On Saturday, the normal instructor got a different job, so she couldn’t teach on Saturdays anymore. That bummed me out. Then they sent in this other girl whom I had seen before but she had never taught. So I thought it might be okay.
Well, unfortunately, she didn’t really instruct all that much. She just had us do some warm-ups and then sent us off to do our own stuff and didn’t really instruct or give pointers that much. That’s fine, but I’d rather someone who is really into it and wants to teach. She didn’t seem too thrilled about it.
And the normal guy, during the weekday, is really cool. He instructs very well. I will still go on some of the Saturdays, but I prefer to go during the week now. Plus, the weekday classes are an hour and a half whereas the weekend class is an hour long.
Anyway, I have started working out more now, and I so far have lost about five pounds in the last week. Help me to keep it going!
ACTIVITITES: Stupid Backheadsprings…
Well, I’m still doing backheadsprings. I think I just need to beef up my arms so that they can actually stand the weight of my whole body jumping onto them.
And I really want a leotard. I looked up some really, really pretty ones online, but I’m so broke right now that there’s no way I can afford one. Same with grips. I really want som grips so that I can start working on the bars. I remember doing kips when I was younger. I was really good at them too. But that’s about all I could do. When I can afford to get grips, I can practice my kips again. The only sad thing is that I have to take off my rings to do bars. I don’t like not wearing my rings.
If anybody wants to donate money toward my cause, you’re more than welcome to! 
ACTIVITIES: No Gymnastics Today
Okay I’m really kind of happy and kind of sad about today. Mostly happy because of the way things turned out. Ky came home and woke me up around 9am today. He said that he was sorry that we couldn’t afford gymnastics. It’s always on Saturday at 8am. It was already 9am. I was really bummed. I had forgotten to go. In all fairness, I don’t know if I would have anyway because I went to bed so late. I had to work.
But I texted Kris later and asked her if she went or not because she’s been going with me for a few weeks, and she said that they didn’t have any today because of the holiday! Yay! I was really quite happy about that. Not only did they not have it, but this was the first week I didn’t even make an attempt to go. Since I started the class, I haven’t missed a single week until now. But I’m glad that it was closed.
ACTIVITIES: First Day of Gymnastics in 14 Years
I had so much fun yesterday! Oh my gosh! I can’t believe that I actually did some of the stuff that I did. I haven’t done any of that for such a long time.
Okay, so I started watching these gymnastics clips on YouTube, and it got me reminiscing about when I was in gymnastics as a child. I had so much fun back then. So, I looked up places that I could do adult gymnastics in Colorado. Turns out, there’s a place that’s only fifteen minutes away from me! How awesome is that?
So I went for the first time yesterday. It was really hard but so much fun. First, we warmed up a little by doing some easy stretching. Then she had us so some harder stuff like backbends and the like, which I can’t really do for the life of me right now. Then we did some exercises by pushing these big mats across the floor and back. That almost made me throw up, I’m so out of shape. Sad, right? But I kept it down, chilled out, got a drink of water, and got back to it. Then we got to the fun stuff: the vault.
I’m really glad that this was the first thing that we got to do. I love the vault. I never did stuff that was too hard, but I do remember having a lot of fun on it. And I had even more fun this time, I think! We had two vaults right next to each other facing opposite directions. One was basically just a springboard and some mats. The other had a springboard and mats but it also had an actual vault as well. I’m so not used to this vault, too. The vaults they use now are way bigger and bulkier than the ones I was used to. The vaults I’m used to were basically just like the pommelhorse without the handles. The new ones are strange. But anyway, I managed to do a front handspring on the vault and successfully land on my feet. I was so happy!
If you live in Colorado and are even a little bit interested in doing adult gymnastics (or if you’re a teenager or a kid reading this), go to www.5280gymnastics.com and you will have a blast. I can promise you that! But don’t think you won’t be sore. I can barely move today!
PS – It’s totally worth it.
