Yeah, Hi, I'm olympic gold medalist simone biles and I'm debunking some misconceptions you guys have about gymnast, we asked on instagram about misconceptions and assumptions you guys have about gymnast, I broke them down into three categories.

是的，你好，我是奧運會金牌得主西蒙娜-拜爾斯，我正在揭穿你們對體操運動員的一些誤解，我們在instagram上詢問了你們對體操運動員的誤解和假設，我把它們抽成了三類。

Sport lifestyle in the Sikh, so gymnastics is not a sport, I hear this a lot, but I feel like every four years everybody tunes in to watch gymnastics, so it's got to be a sport at least out of all the sports, gymnastics is probably the most competitive right now.

體育生活方式在錫克族，所以體操不是一項運動，我經常聽到這種說法，但我覺得每四年大家都會收看體操比賽，所以它必須是一項運動，至少在所有運動中，體操可能是現在競爭最激烈的。

I trained 32 to 34 hours a week just to compete for about three or four minutes.

我每週訓練32至34個小時，只是為了參加大約3或4分鐘的比賽。

It's all sports combining one, you can't just be fast, you have to have like agility, you have to be able to jump, you have to be able to flip memorized routines, it's kind of all in one Gymnasts usually retire at an early age in gymnasts have a short career.

它是所有體育項目的結合體，你不能只是速度快，你必須有像敏捷性，你必須能夠跳躍，你必須能夠翻轉記憶的程序，它是一種所有在一個體操運動員通常在早期退休的體操運動員有一個短暫的職業生涯。

That's not technically true because we can do it um whenever we go to college and get like N.

這在技術上是不正確的，因為我們只要上了大學就可以做嗯，得到像N。

C.

C.

W.

W.

scholarships.

獎學金。

So I guess we all kind of retire around 22, You have to be rich to get into the sport.

所以我想我們都是在22歲左右退休的，你必須要有錢才能進入這項運動。

Our lessons expensive.

我們的課很貴。

It actually is a very expensive sport and it has to do it.

它實際上是一項非常昂貴的運動，它必須這樣做。

It's also a year long.

這也是一年的時間。

We don't have a season and then we can take a break and you kind of have to train your whole entire life for it.

我們沒有一個賽季，然後我們可以休息一下，你有點必須為它訓練你的整個生命。

So yes it does get to be expensive.

是以，是的，它確實變得很昂貴。

You can't start gymnastics later in life.

你不能在生命的後期開始做體操。

I was six years old almost seven and that's already typically late because usually you start in Mommy and Me classes or as soon as you can walk you can't be afraid of heights as a gymnast, you actually can, but it doesn't affect you in the gym when you're flipping because you don't notice how high you are.

我當時六歲快七歲了，這已經是典型的晚期了，因為通常你從 "媽媽和我 "的課程開始，或者只要你能走路，你就不能像體操運動員那樣恐高，實際上你可以，但在體育館裡翻轉時並不影響你，因為你不會注意到你有多高。

So I feel like that was kind of a myth.

所以我覺得那是一種神話。

No, I'm not really afraid of heights.

不，我不是真的恐高。

I'm just afraid of, if I'm somewhere high, I'm going to jump off, I don't know why I have that fear, I don't want to die.

我只是害怕，如果我在高的地方，我就會跳下去，我不知道為什麼我有這種恐懼，我不想死。

I just want to jump off due to me being a professional athlete, gymnast, I try to stay away from those extreme sports, bungee jumping, skydiving, none of that till your career is over.

我只是想跳下去，由於我是一個職業運動員，體操運動員，我儘量遠離那些極限運動，蹦極，跳傘，在你的職業生涯結束之前，這些都不是。

I've done zip lining um and I was only allowed to do it because you're strapped in.

我做過滑索嗯，我只被允許做這個，因為你被綁在裡面。

You constantly have a wedgie from your uniform.

你的制服上經常有一個楔子。

Yes, I know you can't get wedgies, but usually you just pick them beauties of pains, so where we get over it.

是的，我知道你不能得到楔子，但通常你只是挑選他們的痛苦的美女，所以我們在哪裡得到它。

So G K Ali designs all of my uniforms and I have a little line with them and so I think that's really exciting because I get to design the leos that I compete and training is more mental than physical, I would say it's 50 50 every trick comes naturally and they do not struggle at all.

是以，G-K-Ali設計了我所有的制服，我和他們有一個小系列，所以我認為這真的很令人興奮，因為我可以設計我參加比賽的獅子，訓練更多的是精神上的，而不是身體上的，我會說是50％，每一個技巧都很自然，他們一點都不掙扎。

That's false because on some skills it's taken me like over a year to learn.

這是假的，因為有些技能我花了一年多時間才學會。

So it all doesn't come naturally.

所以這一切並不自然。

There's actually two skills I can think of.

實際上，我可以想到的有兩種技能。

One is a to catch up on bars that took me like a year to learn and another is a double double on floor, which also took me like a year to learn the to catch if I was scared and I used to like fall really crazy and then double double, I would just get lost in the air.

一個是花了一年時間才學會的單槓接力，另一個是地板上的雙人接力，這也花了我一年時間才學會，如果我害怕，我就會瘋狂地摔倒，然後雙人接力，我就會在空中迷失。

So it took me a long time for my air awareness on that skill lifestyle.

所以我花了很長時間才對這種技能生活方式有了空氣意識。

They are not very nice and super competitive in all aspects of life.

他們不是很好，在生活的各個方面都有超強的競爭力。

I'm actually not very competitive at all in the gym or like in a competition, my goal is never to win, it just Kind of happens.

實際上，我在健身房或比賽中根本沒有什麼競爭力，我的目標從來都不是要贏，它只是一種發生。

But I also feel like whenever you're at the top everybody like praise on your downfall, which is really strange to me.

但我也覺得，每當你處於巔峰時，每個人都喜歡稱讚你的墮落，這對我來說真的很奇怪。

My sister did gymnastics until she was about like 17, she was level nine gymnast training Littleton, she was really good, she quit because of the pressure and everybody compared her to me and she used to win a lot of the competitions to, and then people thought that wasn't fair and she was just tired of people talking about it whenever she went to competitions, like her sister always, when she always wins, that's not fair.

我姐姐做體操一直到17歲左右，她是九級體操訓練Littleton，她真的很好，她退出了，因為壓力太大，每個人都把她和我相比，她曾經贏得很多比賽到，然後人們認為這不公平，她只是厭倦了每次她去參加比賽時人們的談論，比如她姐姐總是，當她總是贏，這不公平。

So she quit.

所以她辭職了。

They're intimidating to men.

他們對男人很有威懾力。

I feel like at a young age, yes, because I feel like our muscles develop way quicker than other kids our age, especially like in middle school you don't see boys beefing up to 16, 18 till they hit puberty, but even before girls hit puberty, we gain muscles.

我覺得在年輕的時候，是的，因為我覺得我們的肌肉發育比其他同齡孩子要快得多，特別是像在中學的時候，你不會看到男孩在進入青春期之前，會有16、18歲的肌肉，但甚至在女孩進入青春期之前，我們的肌肉就會增加。

So we're typically stronger than the men in our age group.

是以，我們通常比我們這個年齡組的男性更強壯。

So yes, so before I started dating my boyfriend, he didn't know who I was.

所以是的，所以在我開始和我的男朋友約會之前，他不知道我是誰。

Yes, it actually was.

是的，它實際上是。

No, we don't have to talk about it, it's fine.

不，我們不必談論它，這很好。

He's competitive at games and in life in general, but I'm not, but whenever I beat him, I make it known that I beat him because it just gets on his nerves.

他在遊戲和一般生活中都很有競爭力，但我不是，但每當我擊敗他時，我都會讓他知道我擊敗了他，因為這隻會讓他感到緊張。

Um can I be not nice sometimes, but probably if I'm tired and hungry, but that's just everybody.

嗯，我有時會不善言辭，但如果我累了，餓了，可能就會這樣，但這只是每個人的情況。

But I feel like people also think gymnasts are really mean because most of the time were so serious that you really don't see our personality all work.

但我覺得人們也認為體操運動員真的很刻薄，因為大部分時間都很嚴肅，你真的看不到我們的個性都在工作。

No play.

不玩了。

Yes and no, I guess we can play after work.

是的，也不是，我想我們可以在下班後玩。

I've learned that I have to feel myself outside of the gym to whether that's hanging out with family, friends, going shopping or doing whatever.

我已經知道，我必須在健身房之外感受自己，不管是與家人、朋友一起玩，還是去購物或做任何事情。

I still have to be happy at the end of the day with or without gymnastics.

不管有沒有體操，我在一天結束時仍然要感到高興。

My mom always made it a note to do family vacation.

我媽媽總是把做家庭度假作為一個注意事項。

So they would take me and my sister out of practice anyways and we would go.

所以他們會把我和我妹妹從訓練中帶出來，我們就去了。

One of my favorite places to go on vacation is believed the food, the water, the people, everything.

我最喜歡去度假的地方之一，相信食物、水、人，所有的一切。

Whenever I do things I'm not supposed to when I post them, I get in trouble.

每當我在發帖時做一些不應該做的事情，我就會遇到麻煩。

One time we went to believe that I was doing double flips off this platform and I got in trouble for that.

有一次我們去相信，我在這個平臺上做了兩個空翻，我是以遇到了麻煩。

But the internet thought it was cool.

但互聯網認為這很酷。

I like to nap.

我喜歡打盹。

I feel like at this age that's like fun for me, they have to wake up at four a.m. Every day.

我覺得在這個年齡段，這對我來說好像很有趣，他們每天都要在凌晨四點起床。

I don't wake up at four am I wake up at like 6 15 just because we start practice at seven and if I had to wake up before, I wouldn't go to the gym, they grew up only going to gymnastics gym and didn't have time to socialize slash date.

我不在凌晨四點起床，我在6點15分起床，只是因為我們在七點開始練習，如果我必須在之前起床，我就不會去健身房，他們長大後只去體操館，沒有時間去社交斜線約會。

I actually went to Public school up until 8th grade, which some people never go to public school or some people do public school their whole entire career.

實際上，我在公立學校一直讀到8年級，有些人從來沒有上過公立學校，有些人在整個職業生涯中都在上公立學校。

But yeah, once you get to a certain level and you start training more hours, you don't really have time to socialize.

但是，是的，一旦你達到一定的水準，你開始訓練更多的時間，你就真的沒有時間去社交了。

Therefore probably don't know any guys, so you probably don't date and I didn't.

是以可能不認識什麼人，所以你可能沒有約會，我也沒有。

So all of my friends actually came from gymnastics or at least around that world.

所以我所有的朋友實際上都來自體操，或者至少是在那個世界上。

This one tendency to be depressed as a result of their young age and pressure to compete.

這一個傾向是由於他們年輕和競爭的壓力而導致的抑鬱。

I was never depressed as a kid.

我小時候從來沒有抑鬱過。

I was actually very happy because I feel like you don't really get pressure to compete well till you get older, but it also depends on your parents and your coaches and my parents just always let me have fun um, and be myself in and out of the gym.

我實際上非常高興，因為我覺得在你長大之前，你並沒有真正得到競爭的壓力，但這也取決於你的父母和你的教練，我的父母只是一直讓我玩得開心嗯，在體育館內外做自己。

So as I got older you have to take mental days or whatever, but I've probably only taken like to ever, so not really for me, I go to therapy and I think it should be talked about a lot more because it's not something to be ashamed or afraid of, Everybody has something different that works for them and that's what I just found works for me, physique, they have body image issues, I feel like that's not a misconception about gymnasts, I feel like that's everybody in general, everybody struggles with body image issues, wanting to look different, thinking you're not skinny.

是以，隨著我年齡的增長，你必須採取心理日或其他什麼，但我可能只採取過像，所以對我來說不是真的，我去治療，我認為它應該被談論得更多，因為它不是什麼羞恥或害怕的事情。每個人都有不同的東西對他們有用，這就是我剛剛發現的對我有用的東西，體格，他們有身體形象問題，我覺得這不是對體操運動員的誤解，我覺得這是每一個人的普遍現象，每個人都在與身體形象問題作鬥爭，想要看起來與眾不同，認為自己不瘦。

Um I feel like that's everybody in life, you have to have a certain body type to be a gymnast back in the day.

嗯，我覺得這就是生活中的每個人，你必須有一定的體型才能成為當年的體操運動員。

Everybody had a more like slim body and was really flexible and skinny, but now you can be a little bit shorter and more powerful like me, so I definitely think it's evolved, so I think that's false as well.

每個人都有一個更像苗條的身體，真的很靈活，很瘦，但現在你可以像我一樣有點矮，更有力量，所以我絕對認為它已經進化了，所以我認為這也是假的。

You have to be skinny, petite to do gymnastics.

你必須是瘦小的，嬌小的才能做體操。

I feel like whatever your body type is, you just have to be in shape to do gymnastics, they can never grow above a certain height.

我覺得無論你的體型如何，你只要身材好就可以做體操，他們永遠不可能長到一定高度以上。

Some gymnasts are like 5658 which is really tall.

有些體操運動員像5658，這真的很高。

For gymnasts, not for a normal person, but for a gymnast, if you walk into the gym, the tallest person on the team is probably 54 Think it's different now.

對於體操運動員來說，不是普通人，而是體操運動員，如果你走進體育館，隊裡最高的人可能是54歲 想想現在就不同了。

Everybody thought bar swingers were a little bit taller leaner, and then if you're like a tumbler, you're a little bit shorter and thicker.

每個人都認為酒吧裡的搖擺人都是高一點的瘦子，然後如果你是像搖擺人那樣的人，你就會有一點矮，一點厚。

But now it's been proven that you can kind of have both body types and do all of it, so it doesn't really make a difference anymore.

但現在已經證明，你可以同時擁有兩種體型並做所有的事情，所以這其實已經沒有什麼區別了。

But let me tell you, you gained £3 is a little harder to swing on the bars.

但讓我告訴你，你獲得的3英鎊在單槓上有點難擺。

They're very flexible.

他們非常靈活。

No, not all gymnasts are flexible.

不，不是所有體操運動員都很靈活。

Me and Ali Raisman were actually not that flexible for gymnasts because our muscles kind of overlap that, but were flexible enough to do what we have to do.

我和阿里-雷斯曼實際上對體操運動員來說不是那麼靈活，因為我們的肌肉有點重疊，但足夠靈活，可以做我們必須做的事情。

I'm olympic gold medalist.

我是奧運會金牌得主。