Adult Gymnastics in TIME Magazine

… I joined about 20 other people for an all-levels adult gymnastics class at the Chelsea Piers Field House in Brooklyn, New York.

Even though the summer Olympics had already ended, enthusiasm for gymnastics hadn’t died down.

I was lucky to get into the class, as I overheard multiple people saying the waitlist had been filling up fast lately. And apparently, a similar trend is playing out across the country.

“So many classes are waitlist-only right now, and that rarely happened before this past Olympics,” says Gina Paulhus, who keeps a list of adult gymnastics classes on her website. That list has grown dramatically over the years, from 231 gyms offering adult classes in 2015 to 590 this year …

What It’s Like to Take an Adult Gymnastics Class—with Zero Experience