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Win one of five copies CHALKED UP: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams by Jennifer Sey
Win one of five copies CHALKED UP: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams by Jennifer Sey
Former national gymnastics champion Jennifer Sey takes us into the heart of the world of gymnastics in her new book CHALKED UP: Inside Elite Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams [William Morrow; May 1, 2008; $25.95]. As she retraces her life, from her first gymnastics class at 6 years-old to the pinnacle of her career as the 1986 Unites States national champion, Sey deftly illustrates how the line between healthy ambition and the obsessive quest for perfection can quickly become blurred.
Sey writes honestly about her own life long dream of competing at the world level, and how eating disorders, injuries, coaching abuses, parental hopes and neglect destroy young gymnasts-and nearly destroyed her. With her weight and physical appearance under a tightly monitored microscope, Sey recounts her constant battle with anorexia and her addiction to laxatives. Under a constant barrage of pressure from her maniacal coaches and over zealous albeit well-meaning parents, Sey's struggles extended beyond the gym, as well. She became increasingly alienated from the classmates' who rarely saw her. Her family life bore the grunt of her rigorous schedule as well-her parents torn apart by physical distance and her younger brother's wants and needs thrown to the backburner. Sey was willing to sacrifice anything and everything to reach the top-but once she got there she was finally forced to face her own demons.
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- CHALKED UP: Inside Elite Gymnastics’ Merciless Coaching, Overzealous Parents, Eating Disorders, and Elusive Olympic Dreams by Jennifer Sey
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