On Wednesday, I went to my first cheerleading practice of season 9. The funny thing is, everyone wants to know how much of a break I get between each season. Well, not very much. Once I got back from Worlds on May 5th, we didn’t have any more team practices so I went in for “open gyms.” This is when the gym is open to all athletes and you get to stunt, tumble, jump, or condition. So, I went in once a week until tryouts happened on May 25th. And then I had two weeks off. But, I went to other gyms during those two weeks to continue training.

So really, I never stopped.

But on Wednesday, it felt like the first day of school:

Bow in, my cheerleading backpack was filled with all the necessaries, and a coffee to get my muscles feeling alive. I was about to meet my new team. And it is one jacked team. But first, I did my 45 minute private tumbling class.


I got to the gym and it has a fresh new feel. The gym got all new flooring this year which makes it super bouncy, fresh, and ready to be worked. Here’s a peek at how the renovations went down: 


The old floor was ripped out: 

The new floor was put into place:  

And most importantly, the WORLDS banners were added to the collection:

At the end of my tumbling session I did As Many Reps As Possible (AMRAP) of the following in 8 minutes: 

As I said before, I’m on the International Open All-Girl Level 6 Zodiac team. What is the zodiac? Every team in our gym is named after the solar system. We have stratosphere, cosmos, mini dippers, etc. This way it is easier to distinguish what all the teams are instead of saying I’m on “level 4.” So naturally, our team made ourselves a theme song skip to 1:07 to hear it: