Why are gymnasts so short?

Gymnastics generally needs to do a lot of stretching exercises, which is supposed to promote height growth, but it should be controlled within a reasonable range. However, we all know that gymnasts have great training intensity, and stretching beyond normal growth will limit height growth.

Compared with European and American gymnasts, the overall height level of China gymnasts is really short, which is a law that China gymnastics has explored for so many years. Being short and pithy is conducive to making all kinds of difficult movements, such as uneven bars. Height determines the center of gravity of athletes and has a great influence on their performance. So short athletes spin in the air, with little air resistance, faster movement, agility and beauty. The training of the gymnastics team is quite hard. Premature and excessive strength training of children is harmful to the development of bones and joints, especially the development of epiphysis at joints, which will affect the development of height.

Gymnasts generally need to control their weight and diet from an early age. For children in the growth and development period, controlling appetite will undoubtedly lead to malnutrition, usually leading to insufficient body fat, which will lead to delayed development. It is found that the skeletal development of female professional gymnasts is 65438 0.7 years later than that of normal peers, and the body fat and subcutaneous fat are obviously reduced, and the age of menarche is delayed by 2 ~ 3 years. Long-term low calorie intake can easily lead to menstrual disorder, amenorrhea and developmental retardation in female athletes.

When choosing a coach, they tend to choose younger children for training. The technical characteristics of gymnastics in China are dexterity and changeability. Athletes need to be as light as a swallow to perform difficult somersaults and stunts. If the athlete is short and his body center of gravity will be relatively low, then the landing action will be more stable and the advantage will be more obvious, thus obtaining a higher ranking. Therefore, in the initial selection of athletes, the coach will pay special attention to congenital conditions, predict the future height of children, screen out children who can grow taller in the future, and choose children who predict relatively short height.