RoseyPosey352
Gymnast
- Apr 28, 2019
- 3
- 5
*just a little warning this is going to be long sorry*
I am 16 and I am currently a sophomore. I have done gymnastics since I was 2 in the mommy and me class (14 years!). Lately gymnastics has been getting harder for me because I have been wanting to quit.
I am a level 5 gymnast who would be moving up to level 7 (we are going to compete one meet of 6 so we can move up at my gym). I am not even close to moving up but did good in level five that it doesn’t make sense to me to stay in 5. I don’t want to move up and I have no motivation to learn any new skills. It feels like I am giving myself mental blocks on skills before I even train them! I dread going to practice so much and I think about it even at school all day. I have states in a couple days but I am hardly even looking forward to it
But quitting would be hard physically because of the exercise and also because I don’t do anything else outside of school really. I am on the varsity gymnastics team and do enjoy that more than club gymnastics, but I don’t want to lose my skills and not be able to compete for school. I also have Osgood Schlatters in my knees which makes it difficult every practice.
I have been having trouble getting my homework done and I am losing a lot of sleep, staying up until midnight many days of the week doing it. The homework isn’t going to get any less or easier next year and I am worried that practice takes away time that I need for doing homework.
My heart just isn’t in gymnastics anymore but I feel like if I quit the 14 years was all for nothing. It makes me upset that the sport that I used to love so much doesn’t give me the same feeling anymore. I would miss my teammates so much, too. But right now it feels like I am doing gymnastics for every other reason, not that I enjoy the sport itself. Is now a good time to quit?
(Ps sorry this was so long and thank you if you read it all)
I am 16 and I am currently a sophomore. I have done gymnastics since I was 2 in the mommy and me class (14 years!). Lately gymnastics has been getting harder for me because I have been wanting to quit.
I am a level 5 gymnast who would be moving up to level 7 (we are going to compete one meet of 6 so we can move up at my gym). I am not even close to moving up but did good in level five that it doesn’t make sense to me to stay in 5. I don’t want to move up and I have no motivation to learn any new skills. It feels like I am giving myself mental blocks on skills before I even train them! I dread going to practice so much and I think about it even at school all day. I have states in a couple days but I am hardly even looking forward to it
But quitting would be hard physically because of the exercise and also because I don’t do anything else outside of school really. I am on the varsity gymnastics team and do enjoy that more than club gymnastics, but I don’t want to lose my skills and not be able to compete for school. I also have Osgood Schlatters in my knees which makes it difficult every practice.
I have been having trouble getting my homework done and I am losing a lot of sleep, staying up until midnight many days of the week doing it. The homework isn’t going to get any less or easier next year and I am worried that practice takes away time that I need for doing homework.
My heart just isn’t in gymnastics anymore but I feel like if I quit the 14 years was all for nothing. It makes me upset that the sport that I used to love so much doesn’t give me the same feeling anymore. I would miss my teammates so much, too. But right now it feels like I am doing gymnastics for every other reason, not that I enjoy the sport itself. Is now a good time to quit?
(Ps sorry this was so long and thank you if you read it all)