10 things that our favorite gymnasts MIGHT be doing this Holiday Season!

After I published the Thanksgiving Edition of this post, many of you asked for a Christmas or "Holiday Season" version. Here are 10 things that our favorite Gymnasts MIGHT be doing this Holiday Season!

(Brigid McCarthy)

10. Mexican national team members decorate their gyms with their 2011 Podium Training Leos. 

9. Aly Raisman develops carb and fat free latkes, made entirely of air.  

8. Shawn Johnson gives Jordyn Wieber the cursed "World Champion" fruitcake that Khorkina gave her 4 years ago. Marta suggests that she regift it to Komova. 

7. We finally discover something with more glitter than the Rockefeller Christmas Tree: A Parkette's hair. 

6. Mary Lee Tracy recommends leaving celery out for Santa to encourage "Clean Eating"

5. Nastia Liukin surprises St. Nick when she leaves her 7 inch platform heels out for him to leave treats in. 

4. For some reason, your Christmas Hamm begins assaulting the green bean casserole and cranberry sauce. 

3. Bela Karolyi dresses up for a "Breakfast with Santa" event for children under 12. No one is surprised when Yao Jinnan shows up. 

2. An anonymous donor sends Al Trautwig, Elfi Schlegel and Tim Daggett the Gymnastics for Dummies book for Christmas. Chapters include: "How wide is the balance beam?!", "Nastia Liukin has Russian Parents" and "Losing sight of the beam is hard!!" 

1. The US National Team bonds by decorating gingerbread men. Unfortunately, it seems that all the cookies ended up breaking prior to the big decoration day. 

(Property of National Geographic, Candy Caldwell)

A Day in the Life of National Team Member Elizabeth Price

(Property of USAG)

National Team member Elizabeth Price placed 4th on Bars and 5th on Vault at this year's Visa National Championships. As a second time National Team Member, "Ebee" as her friends call her, has to potential to make a splash on the international scene in 2012. Here's an exclusive look at a day in the life of a Parkette Gymnast. 


7:00 AM- "A usual day for me starts with waking up at 7:00am to get dressed, pack[ing] my lunch, and depending on whether or not I’m hungry, eating breakfast. My Dad takes me to the gym around 7:30am before heading to work. It takes about 20 minutes to drive there without much traffic."


8:30 AM-12:30 PM - "Practice at my gym, Parkettes, starts at 8:30am, and since I get there early, I just hangout and wait. We run, stretch, condition and do basics for an hour before going to our first event. We do three events for one hour each until 12:30."


12:30-1:20 PM - "At 12:30 we go on a lunch break in our dance room, where we eat, rest and do schoolwork until 1:20."

1:20-3:30/4:00 PM - "After break we do a short warm up for 10 minutes before going to our fourth event, which lasts an hour. After our last event we go back to bars and beam for about a half hour each, sometimes longer."

3:30/4:00-4:30 PM - "Now that we’ve finished all our events, we condition and stretch for about a half hour before saying bye and leaving."

(Property of Jessica Frankl)

4:30-5:00 PM - "My mom picks me up in the evening since she’s already off work and my dad still has an hour or so before he’s ready to come home. When I get home, I get a small snack, change into more comfortable clothing and get ready to start my schoolwork."

5:00-8:00/9:00 PM - "Being homeschooled allows me to move faster through my schoolwork, so instead of learning for six hours like I would if I went to school, it only takes three or four hours. That’s what I’m doing at 5:00pm. I do school for a couple of hours with eating dinner between until I’m done."

8:00/9:00-10:00 PM- "After I finish my schoolwork, I take a shower and hang out watching TV, going on Facebook or reading until 10:00 or 10:30pm, when I go to bed."