Skinny Pressure in Sports

I claim no rights to the materials used.--All credits go to the artist- see below-Not many people realize the pressure to be thin in sports exists. Many athletes develop eating disorders that often go on recognized or are ignored. This is just to help increase the awareness. I'm not saying its wrong or right. I just want more people to understand what we do to perform well and be accepted. This is my first video so don't be to harsh. I didn't really know what I was doing.
I do not claim any rights to this songs used in this video. All credit goes to the artists. Jewl-Hands

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• eating
• disorder
• sports
• athletes
• anorexia
• bulimia
• ana
• mia
• tennis
• runners
• dancers
• female
• athlete
• triad

[gymshiv]

weird, there was barely any gymnasts in here, gymnastics is like the sport with the highest amount of eeting disorders even at non-elite levels, and yet there was only one picture of them in here, of a not particularly skinny gymnast. Ever heard of Parkettes, Christy Henrich, Kristen maloney Yelena Mukhina?

kind of ignorant really to put in basketball and not gymnastics... >:(

[krislee922]

I'm sorry you find this video ignorant. You can go watch the millions of other videos that don't include any other sports and focus only on gymnastics. I really tried to just make a point and make people aware that this happens... in all sports!

[krislee922]

Thanks for the comments!! :)

[Mandiegracie]

I'm a senior in hs this year. I've been running since freshman year. I was really skinny my sophmore year of xc. I was really fast and was the best on the team. Then I gained weight & stopped getting faster. Now I'm struggling cause I think I have an ed cause I skip eating a lot. Once you start it is so hard to go back to eating...you're right, all you can do is pray to God for help cause he's your strength. Good luck runforfun. I'm cheering for ya. Hopefully both of us can remember why we run=)

[unevercalled]

@Mandiegracie how are you doing these days? has your eating gone back to normal?

[lunarfoxie]

My gymnastics coaches tell me to eat more... :/

[siarrahbabey14]

Odorrianch, I was an athlete and I got an eating disorder. I new I had to eat but I saw a pic that made me look fat so I lost weight fast. I didn't care what people said about me and my waight

[siarrahbabey14]

I was literally about to cry in this! I became anorexic because I ran so much and ate so little. I am better now and can slow run no matter how fast I want to go:( and yes u could have called me a beginning athlete.

[EmzilyD]

@gymshiv Actually eating disorders are most common in jockeys and there are no pictures of them either

[grrlsports]

These women look fit and strong...our society is so skewed in it's ideas re weight.... Skinny and strong is normal and good. None of thesevwomen look unhealthy.

[TurboPhantom411]

@gymshiv Yelena Mukhina died because of paralysis not an eating disorder... Still terrible though.

[idorianch]

faakee.. good athletes that love sports know that they have to eat a lot, they burn everything anyways, so why stop eating?.. they get better at their sport when they have good muscles and a good neuronal response.. which you cant get starving.

[KyleeDeLuca]

I'm an iceskater and there is definatly pressure to be thin cause you have to look good in the dresses cause their skin tight and if you're fat...well you just look like shit if you're a fat iceskater in those dresses. You HAVE to be thin. And your coaches )or at least mine) aren't afraid to tell you that you need to slim down.

[TheRhythmicFan]

this video doesnt even make sense! please take it off of youtube! none of it is true! i know sports that you need to be Fit *not skinny* to be in and none of these qualify! i only see like 4 girls in this that are "skinny"