Gymnastics

Eventually, I lost the motivation to go to the gym or even pick up a basketball. This year everything changed: I began CrossFit. CrossFit is a high-intensity strength and conditioning program that combines Olympic weightlifting, calisthenics, gymnastics, and cardio. Every day, there is a WOD (workout of the day) that consists of a strength exercise and a metabolic conditioning exercise. Classes take place in a “box”: four walls filled with ropes, weights, boxes, bars, and tires. Although I’d…

I can apply to my future opportunities. It also has inspired me to utilize those talents I am passionate about in activities at the high school. Some projects I have worked on for the school and community include: revamping and recreating Jacobs Gymnastics’ website, filming and editing promotional videos for volunteers and participants of Unity Point, the YMCA and Waukee APEX’s Healthy Kids Day, making promotional videos for the APEX program and branding for my family’s horse business and farm.…

first time I put on my ballet shoes, dance has been my source of inspiration, self-expression and pure joy. It is not only everyday practice but a part of who I am and what I want to be. I have studied classical ballet (Van Niekerk Academy) and gymnastics since the age of four, which provided me with a strong technical base while participating in multiple workshops and auditions improved my competence. I successfully auditioned to Tring Park School and for several years studied there ballet,…

heads up and arms extended to help with counterbalance. The ability to maintain balance while remaining in the same position is referred to by Kearns as static balance. Children will also have the opportunity to refine this skill in the form of a gymnastic ball challenge at the end of the obstacle course (Kearns, 2010, p.…

was not until the 1900 Paris games when women started competing in any sort of sport. Coming from topendspoprt.com the first sport played where women could actually participate in was lawn tennis and golf. Then twenty eight years later women’s gymnastics was debuted. During the 1972 Olympics there were only 1,059 women to compete in the games and were outnumbered by the men with…

“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.” (Millman) This quote can be interpreted in many different ways. When applied to Peaceful warrior one can deduce that it could mean when people chase dreams it is not the destination or the goal that beings us the most joy but it is the path that we take to get to that goal that makes us the happiest and that benefits us. When one applies this quote to the theme of “The value of purpose and dreams” it could be determined that it the…

Personal Statement of Melanie Ayllon Three years ago I had to decide where my focus for the next three and a half years would lie. I needed to choose between languages, science, arts or economics and law. I decided to take economics and law as part of a bilingual program (German and English) at my school. My decision was not primarily based on my interest in economics and law, but rather on the opportunity to take half of the syllabus in English. To participate in the bilingual program you could…

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their kids or became teachers because of how fragile they were. Men were allowed to focus on more advance careers that were difficult since their bodies were built for heavy types of work. Sports, in the beginning, were strictly for one gender. Gymnastics was viewed as a very feminine sport and was originally meant for woman; while football, a very masculine sport, was specifically created for…

Cheerleading is among one of the fastest growing women’s sports according to the New York Times post, yet more than half of the American population doesn’t believe that it should be considered a sport. College cheerleading should be considered a Title IX sport because of how many injuries it has caused many young women. Title IX is no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any…