Gymnastics is a combination of strength and flexibility. If you are just starting and are serious about gymnastics it is something you need to learn to work in with your everyday movements as well as hours of preparations to get your body to form before thinking of jumping in and flying around. This is important not to damage your body. Then gradually start with the small moves like somersaults, chartwheels, roundoff, doing them repeatatively in a line. when stating backwards movements to prepare for them you ly on the floor hands above your shoulders lifting your body up while walking you legs inwards. Lets go to the strength part you can't do the harder moves if your not strong enough to hold your weight. Push ups, pull ups, and good leg strengthenin exercise is needed. As you progree with your gymnastics though you will feel like you are flying in the air and not even making contact with the floor. Gymnastics is great to learn and it is used in so many way in dance, swimming, cheerleading you can work gymnastics into almost everything. When I was in gymnastics I never wanted to walk, I would chartwheel down the road. Just remember it is fun so enjoy it, if you don't you might want to try something else. Good Luck with it.

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