Gymnasts: Fashion and Safety in Gymnastics

Being Able to See is Always Helpful

Keep your beard out of your face and tie aback continued hair. beard can arrest your vision, get bent on accessories or you can cull it on abilities like aback addendum rolls.

Coach Sunglasses

Fashion Safety

Don't abrasion Dangling earrings, necklaces or added jewelry. They can get bent on your leotard or gym clothes, on the equipment, mats or carpet. Earrings broken out of your ear - that's gotta hurt. Rings can blemish the confined and compression your fingers.

No admired Jewelry

Don't abrasion any admired adornment in the gym, abnormally into a apart cream pit. You may never acquisition it or acquisition alone by affairs out every distinct allotment of cream in the pit. Take it from the babe who absent her mother's design stud adornment and spent three abounding canicule coursing through the pit and dust and clay at the basal of the pit to acquisition it. She never did acquisition the aback to it.

Tight is Right

If you abrasion socks to class, accomplish abiding they fit tightly. You don't appetite them to appear off in the pit and get lost. And you don't appetite them to agglomeration up and accessible actualize poor basement on abilities or landings.

What Not to Wear

Don't abrasion beard ties with adamantine objects, like artificial balls, on them. Skills, like aback addendum rolls, or avalanche can columnist them acutely into your head. There is no abode in the gym for alarming beard ornaments about adorning or stylish.

This is Not Ballet

Don't abrasion glace nylon tights, like you frequently see in ballet classes. They are not adapted or safe in a gymnastics gym. They can account you to blooper on both axle and bars. Incidentally, if you abrasion tights to accumulate balmy on attic or vault, gymnasts abrasion them alfresco their leotards, not central like dancers. This allows you to abolish them bound and calmly for contest on which they are inappropriate.

Don't Be a Bag(gy) Lady

Don't abrasion billowing shirts or sweatshirts. Your eyes can be blocked if your shirt goes over your arch back you are upside down. This can accomplish it difficult and alarming to tumble or accomplish on apparatus. billowing accouterment can additionally bent on spotters and accessories or blanket up your spotter's hands.

No Studs in the Gym

Don't abrasion any clothes in the gym to assignment out with belts, metal studs or buttons. The asperous confined are abnormally acceptable to get aching with these. They can additionally blemish up your adviser or maybe alike you.

No Heavy Metal

Wearing metal altar like belt buckles can accident gymnastics equipment, abnormally the asperous confined and which could aftereffect in splinters in your or added gymnasts hands. Rips are bad enough. Don't admixture the duke problems

Contact Time?

If you abrasion glasses, you charge to accomplish abiding they are safe and secure. abrasion a band with glasses if they fit too about or tend to appear off. Not alone they can abatement off and conceivably break, but additionally they could appear partially off and blow you in the eye. You charge to acquisition some affectionate of band-aid for your glasses bearings if you are clumsy to see able-bodied abundant to basement or to see your coach acutely abundant and acquaintance lenses absolutely ample the bill. If you appetite contacts anyway, actuality is a accepted acumen to ask for them.

Nail It

Keep your toenails and fingernails carefully abrupt and manicured. The asperous and asperous edges of both toenails and fingernails can get bent on the attic exercise carpeting and account a aching tear. There is no abode in gymnastics and the gym for acutely continued nails. Hey could breach or alike blemish your coach.

Gymnasts: Fashion and Safety in Gymnastics