Can Guys Do Gymnastics

Gymnastics is many things, but one of the things that it most certainly is not is just for girls. … But not only are there plenty of boys and men in gymnastics, but some of them are even acknowledged to be some of the strongest athletes of all.

Do straight guys do gymnastics?

Most male gymnasts are straight, so are most male figure skaters, and divers, and dancers, and other sports you can think of. I’m guessing you ask this because gymnastics is often lumped together with figure skating, which in pop culture is seen as a sport for gay men.

Do male gymnasts lift?

“We didn’t lift weights at all back then,” he says. Today, male gymnasts are pumping iron (Dalton weight trains about twice a week) in the gym we’re more familiar with—one that doesn’t have parallel bars and balance beams but instead is filled with barbells, dumbbells, and kettlebells.