American - Athlete | January 19, 1992 -
I don't want to be all power and muscle.
Shawn Johnson
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I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.
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I usually work out 4 hours a day during the week and 5 to 6 hours on Saturday, with Sundays off.
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A typical practice consists of practicing every event for about an hour. A lot of people assume I have private coaching, but I work out with 13 other girls at the gym!
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I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.
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When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.
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Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going.
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I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!
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I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!
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I have a chaperone everywhere I go - my mom.
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Gymnastics is so complex.
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Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.
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