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Does practicing gymnastics stunt growth in young people?

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Does practicing gymnastics stunt growth in young people?

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Gymnasts are usually short and yes gymnastics is much easier if you are short, because it is easier to rotate and move your body faster. It is also easier to build up a high strength to body weight ratio. Some argue that gymnastics stunts your growth, others argue that it is just the shorter people who excell at the sport and stick with it. However it is proven that high level gymnasts do end up shorter than they should be. But this is not your regular recreational gymnasts or even your regular competitive gymnasts. This is elite gymnasts who train 30-40 hours a week in the sport from a very young age. Doing any activity that much will affect your growth. Kids are taller today than they ever have been before. This is because they are far less active today than in the olden days. The food they eat is not being burned up as much by exersize so more of it is used to grow (but this can make you grow outwards aswell as upwards). Anyone who trains in a sport for over 30 hours a week as a chi

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I was in gymnastics for 9 years and competed in the national level. I think it does stunt your growth like others have said to a small degree. When I quit I was 14 and the same size for 3 years. After I quit however I did end up growing another inch. But I was always small and still am, if you are conserned about being short because of the sport I think you shouldn’t worry about it. I would be more conserned with the hard workouts that marines would die tring to do.

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