Being able to see is always helpful
Keep your hair out of your face and tie back long hair. Hair can obstruct your vision, get caught on gear, or be pulled by abilities like back extension rolls.
safety in fashion
Do not wear earrings, necklaces, or other dangling jewelry. They can get caught in your leotard or gym clothes, equipment, mats, or carpet. Earrings ripped out of your ear – that has to hurt. Rings can scratch bars and pinch fingers.
No valuable jewels
Don’t wear valuable jewelry in the gym, especially in a loose foam pit. You may never find it or you may only find it by pulling each piece of foam out of the hole. Take it from the little girl that she lost her mother’s diamond earring and she spent three whole days digging through the well and the dust and dirt at the bottom of the well to find it. She never found the back.
tight is correct
If you wear socks to class, make sure they fit snugly. You don’t want them to fall into the hole and get lost. And you don’t want them to stack up and create a poor foundation in skills or landings.
What not to wear
Don’t wear hair ties with hard objects, like plastic balls, on them. Skills like back extension twists or falls can put painful pressure on them in the head. There is no place in the gym for dangerous hair decorations, no matter how decorative or elegant they are.
this is not ballet
Don’t wear slippery nylons, such as those commonly seen in ballet classes. They are not appropriate or safe in a gymnastics gym. They can cause you to slip on both the beam and the bars. By the way, if you wear tights to keep warm on the floor or on the vault, gymnasts wear them on the outside of their leotards, not the inside like ballerinas. This allows you to quickly and easily remove them for events where they are not appropriate.
Don’t be a bag lady (gy)
Do not wear loose t-shirts or sweatshirts. Your vision may be obstructed if your shirt goes over your head when you are on your stomach. This can make it difficult and unsafe to turn or operate the device. Loose clothing can also catch on spotters and equipment or wrap around your spotter’s hands.
Not studs in the gym
Don’t wear workout clothes to the gym with belts, metal studs, or buttons. Uneven bars are especially likely to get scratched by these. They can also scratch your instructor or maybe even you.
no heavy metals
Using metal objects such as belt buckles can damage gymnastics equipment, especially uneven bars, which could lead to splinters in the hands of you or other gymnasts. Rips are bad enough. Don’t aggravate hand problems.
contact time?
If you wear glasses, you need to make sure they are safe and secure. Wear a strap with your glasses if they are too loose or tend to slip off. Not only can they fall off and maybe break, but they can also partially detach and poke you in the eye. You need to find some kind of solution for your glasses situation if you can’t see well enough to jump or see your coach clearly enough and contact lenses certainly fit the bill. If you want leads anyway, here’s a legitimate reason to ask for them.
Nail it
Keep your fingernails and toenails neatly trimmed and well cared for. The rough, jagged edges of toenails and fingernails can get caught in the exercise mat on the floor and cause a painful tear. There is no place in the gym and gym for extremely long nails. Hey, it could break or even scratch your trainer.