Courage to Soar

Author: Simone Biles
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 0310759528
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
In Courage to Soar, the official autobiography from four-time Olympic gold-winning and record-setting American gymnast Simone Biles, Simone shares how her faith, family, passion, and perseverance has made her one of the top athletes and gymnasts in the world—and how you too can overcome challenges in your life. Simone Biles’ entrance into the world of gymnastics may have started on a field trip in her hometown of Spring, Texas, but her God-given talent, along with drive to succeed no matter the obstacle, are what brought her to the national spotlight during the Olympic Games and have catapulted her ever since—including 25 World Championship medals. But there is more to Simone than her accomplishments. In this book Simone shares: how she has relied on her faith and family to stay focused and positive the ways she’s continued competing at the highest level and having fun doing what she loves a behind-the-scenes looks at gymnastics events, including the Olympics the events and challenges that carried her from an early childhood in foster care to a coveted spot on the U.S. Olympic team Along the way, Simone shares the details of her inspiring personal story—one filled with daily acts of courage that led her, and can lead you, to even the most unlikely of dreams Special eBook bonus content contains 3 extra chapters of behind-the-scenes look into Simone’s life Courage to Soar: presents a positive role model for young girls, whether athletes or not is an ideal gift for birthdays, holidays, or to celebrate important achievements is perfect for school assignments and reports is an inspirational story for fans of gymnastics or any sport contains an eight-page, full-color photo insert

Flying High

Author: Michelle Meadows
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250819946
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23

Book Description
A lyrical picture book biography of Simone Biles, gymnastics champion and Olympic superstar. Before she was a record-breaking gymnast competing on the world stage, Simone Biles spent time in foster care as a young child. Nimble and boundlessly energetic, she cherished every playground and each new backyard. When she was six years old, Simone's family took shape in a different way. Her grandparents Ron and Nellie Biles adopted Simone and her sister Adria. Ron and Nellie became their parents. Simone was also introduced to gymnastics that same year, launching a lifelong passion fueled by remarkable talent, sacrifice, and the undying support of her family. From her athletic early childhood to the height of her success as an Olympic champion, Flying High is the story of the world's greatest gymnast from author Michelle Meadows and illustrator Ebony Glenn.

Gymnastics Meet Journal

Author: Deborah Sevilla
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781976303395
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
The NEW 8x10 version of the best selling Gymnastics Meet Journal. This is a new kind of scorebook that helps the gymnast reflect on more than just scores. Like our original scorebook and journal series, the Meet Journal has an About Me, About My Team & About My Season sections. The gymnast has a place to record meet scores, highlights & goals PLUS a "journal" page for each meet, with prompts to reflect on attitude, sportsmanship and more. NEW to this book is an area in the back to save information about meets; such as location, hotels & restaurants. 8 x 10 affords more room to write! Dream Believe Achieve Athletics offers many options for artistic gymnastics: Inside and out! Outside: Blue, Purple, Pink designs are available and custom covers available for all books.Inside: Our scorebook contains competition scorebook pages and score charts. The Gymnast Journal contains only the journal prompt pages; perfect for both meets and practices. The Gymnastics Scorebook & Journal features scorebook pages & about me sections. The Gymnastics Meet Journal contains the about me pages, scorebook pages, journal prompt pages and score charts. Other sport-specific guides, workbooks, scorebooks, and journals are available.

The Miracle of Health

Author: Uche Odiatu
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470157755
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
"…The Miracle of Health is for everyone who wants to live better and longer." —Dr. John Ratey, MD, author of Spark, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Everyone has heard the "hows" and the "whys" when it comes to health and fitness, so why don't we all look and feel the way we truly desire? Good question! Our answer: Because knowledge alone does not inspire change. In The Miracle of Health, we will show you how to uncover your own private, powerful reasons to take action. You will learn the secrets to lifelong health, and how to start looking and feeling better immediately! The Miracle of Health applies the psychology of success to fitness. Learn how to create joy on your journey to fitness, find meditation in movement, and see for yourself how one positive choice for greater health will create a ripple effect across every area of your life! Simple strategies will show you how you really can end your struggle with weight, low self-esteem, lack of energy, and poor health: start by choosing just one action step. Our book is packed with sound nutritional strategies that show how you can enjoy eating out and traveling without the usual guilt and worry about weight gain. New topics like mindful eating, de-junking your house, and our Top Foods Nutrition Plan will give you all the tools you need for lifelong success—but more importantly, after reading The Miracle of Health, you will WANT to take action today!

Women and the Olympic Dream

Author: Maria Kaj
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476648743
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
On an April morning in 1896, unemployed single mother Stamata Revithi ran the 40 kilometers from Marathon to Athens, finishing in 5 hours 30 minutes. Barred from the first Olympic marathon, she was determined to prove herself. Through more than a century of Olympic Games history, women athletes--who were held back from swimming because long skirts were required, limited to running single-lap races because of fallacies about fragility, or forced to endure invasive gender exams--competed in spite of endless challenges. From Athens 1896 to Tokyo 2020, this history of women's participation in the Olympic Games centers on athletes who overcame entrenched inequity to gain inclusion.

Gold Medal Summer

Author: Donna Freitas
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545483794
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
A gymnastics novel to flip for! Joey Jordan loves gymnastics: the thrill of performing a backflip on the beam, the cheers of the audience when she sticks a landing. But even with all her talent and style, she's never quite made it to that gold medal stand.Now big changes shake up Joey's life in and out of the gym. Joey wants to break out some daring new beam and floor routines--but she'll have to defy her strict coach to do it. Her best friend, Alex, is thinking about quitting gymnastics for good. And an old friend named Tanner just moved back to town, and he's suddenly gotten very, very cute. Can Joey handle all the challenges coming her way, and make her gold medal summer happen at last? Drawing on her real-life experience as a competitive gymnast, acclaimed novelist Donna Freitas delivers both a terrific gymnastics story and a classic novel about stretching some limits, bending the rules, and finding your balance.

The End of the Perfect 10

Author: Dvora Meyers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501101595
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
An exciting and insightful account of the controversial world of gymnastics, the recent changes of the scoring system, and why those changes will drive American gymnasts to the top of the sport in the twenty-first century.

Gymnastics Scorebook

Author: Deborah Sevilla
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781505380774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102

Book Description
Dream Believe Achieve Athletics' Gymnastics Scorebook is a must have for competitive gymnasts of all ages. After many hours of hard work, training, practicing skills and technique at the gym, every gymnast finally performs for judges, and then in a flash, it's over. The season is a whirlwind. But what did it take to get there and what needs to be done in preparation for the next competition? This gymnastics scorebook is the perfect way to record scores for up to 20 meets and 2 seasons. There are pages to track scores by event and personal bests. Highly motivated gymnasts can look back on their accomplishments for inspiration and record their goals for the next meet. An ideal gift for competitive gymnasts -- a wonderful way to track their progress over time. Women's Artistic Gymnastics Scorebooks, Journals Men's Artistic Gymnastics Scorebooks & Journals Rhythmic Gymnastics Acrobatic Gymnastics Parent's Guide Competitive Gymnastics Gymnastics Workbook Coach Editions Women's & Men's Artistic Gymnastics Competitive Dance Journal Softball Scorebook & Journal Baseball Scorebook & Journal Martial Art Belt Book & Journal Competitive Martial Arts Journal available on Amazon.com www.DBAATHLETICS.com

Chalked Up

Author: Jennifer Sey
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061351466
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
The true story of the 1986 U.S. National Gymnastics champion whose lifelong dream was to compete in the Olympics, until anorexia, injuries, and coaching abuses nearly destroyed her Fanciful dreams of gold medals and Nadia Comaneci led Jennifer Sey to become a gymnast at the age of six. She was a natural at the sport, and her early success propelled her family to sacrifice everything to help her become, by age eleven, one of America’s elite,competing at prestigious events worldwide alongside such future gymnastics’ luminaries as Mary Lou Retton. But as she set her sights higher and higher—the senior national team, the World Championships, the 1988 Olympics—Sey began to change, putting her needs, her health, and her well-being aside in the name of winning. And the adults in her life refused to notice her downward spiral. In Chalked Up Sey reveals the tarnish behind her gold medals. A powerful portrait of intensity and drive, eating disorders and stage parents, abusive coaches and manipulative businessmen, denial and the seduction of success, it is the story of a young girl whose dreams would become eclipsed by the adults around her. As she recounts her experiences, Sey sheds light on the destructiveness of our winning-is-everything culture where underage and underweight girls are celebrated and on the need for balance in children’s lives.

Winning Every Day

Author: Shannon Miller
Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780553097764
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Gymnast Shannon Miller writes about her dreams and achieving these dreams.