Gymnastics articles

Sport requires strict discipline. Girls who decided to commit themselves to Rhythmic Gymnastics also should know their limits. They have little time for entertainment and a special diet that excludes the most part of dainties popular among children and teens.

Rhythmic Gymnastics is a kind of sport that requires complex coordination. Children dreaming to become professional rhythmic gymnasts and skillful gymnasts should perfectly control their bodies and know specific features of their musculoskeletal system internally, so to speak. 

Stage make up is an important factor which defines the successful performance of a young gymnast. You can emphasize certain face features with the help of correct make-up, complementing the entire image of a sportsman. 

Defeat, failure, lack of success is basic things anyone could suffer from. Situations which provoke such sufferings can arise in any activity during the lifetime. That’s why attitude to the lack of success is an important characteristic of personality, which defines human behavior in different situations. Attitude towards defeat is being shaped in the process of suffering from a significant defeat.

Over the last decade there’s been a growing tendency to use doping in sport– illicit medical, natural or synthetical drugs, which rises physical power of a sportsman and, thus, improves his/her sport results. In most cases sportsmen consciously take these steps trying to receive prizes, set world records and achieve worldwide fame. 

Rhythmic Gymnastics has been traditionally considered to be women sport. However, it’s broadened its borders recently by welcoming representatives of the strong half of the mankind into the fold.

Sooner or later rhythmic gymnast (as any sportsman) asks herself: “What comes next?” This is the time when gymnast should make a choice.

Today rhythmic gymnastics is not only super complicated jumps, turns, flexibility elements, but it’s also gorgeous play of colors on the leotards. In other words, now gymnasts perform not in “swimming suits”, but in leotards which look like mini-dress of figure-skaters. Such famous gymnasts as Irina Deriugina and Aleksandra Timoshenko could only dream of such outfit. Let’s have a closer look at the history of rhythmic gymnastics costume.