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This article includes narrative excerpts compiled from fieldnotes the author collected observing six Australian women'selite artistic gymnasts and their two coaches. Using creativenonfiction and auto-ethnography, the stories' plots describethe gymnasts' daily training realities and include personalreflections on the author's gymnastics experiences and reactionsto what she saw during the observations. The stories illustratehow, despite differing levels of authority, the coaches', gymnasts',and parts of her own identity and behaviors are shaped by adominant gymnastics model. This ideal coerces the coaches andgymnasts to regulate their selves and behaviors according toits dominant characteristics. Although potentially beneficialand satisfactory, the training model's discourses and practicescan have debilitating effects.