The Pommel Horse Pro: A Day in the Life of a Championship Gymnast

Me included, but here’s one. People are calling you Clark Kent of the pommel horse. This one says, this Ken’s job is horse. Yeah. So, are you asleep here? What were you doing? You’re exhausted? What’s happening? Yeah, so after a really long day like that, where I’m waiting around five hours to finally compete and represent. Yeah, because we get there earlier and then warm up and then march out and compete. So it was like five hours or so. So finally, when it got to horse, I needed to calm down. So all I’m doing there is I’m tilting my head back and doing my breathing exercises and visualizing a lot, like 100 times. So you’re seeing, because you, what are you used to? You get to the competition, you go, what do you have, like a couple hours to rehearse or get to know the area or 45 minutes? What do you normally, like, not a little bit? Yeah, so like, typical, so usually you have a draw at a competition of what event you’re starting on. So like, we got really lucky for day one. Our draw was, pommel horse was first. So it’s a great example because I literally got to warm up pommel horse last in the back gym and then immediately compete it. So that meant that that competition in total was about an hour long for me versus ending on pommel horse where we warm it up and then you go out and compete it and it’s about a five-hour day instead. So you went and you go, okay, I’m in the zone. And then you go, you close your eyes, you visualize yourself… Swirling, yeah. …swirling, yeah. And flipping and I go, oh, my gosh. And then you just went and you just nailed it and then it became a sensation. And now you have the medals. And have you taken them off since? Don’t take them off. I have been taking them off, but, you know, I don’t want to. Is your girlfriend like, get over it, dude? We get it. You won. She’s like, you’re going to bed. It’s the shower, please.