Interesting facts from the history of the sport
Sport And Fitness / / December 19, 2019
Have you ever wondered exactly when people started to play sports especially in order to keep fit? We are looking for the answer to this question, making a little history.
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In France, in the cave of Lascaux, cave paintings of the Paleolithic era, which represented something like a sprint and fight (about 17 300 years ago) have been found. Rock paintings of Neolithic times in Bayankhongor Province, Mongolia, depict the likeness of struggle surrounded by the crowd, but on the rock Figures of the same era, found in a cave near Wadi Sura plateau of Gilf el-Kebir, Libya, displayed evidence of swimming and shooting archery.
All of these events and activities were characteristic of the distant past, but we are more interested in, and when started the ubiquity of training?
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The industrial revolution has done its job - there are more sedentary jobs. The need for increased movement. In 1774, Johann Bernhard Basedow (Johann Bernard Basedow) opened in Germany filantropinum - Closed educational institution, which paid great attention to sports: wrestling, running, fencing, horseback riding. Even the uniforms for the pupils was sewn from a special light fabric. As a result, this model sports activities so much that began to appear similar institutions eventually physical training became more systematized and included in education program.
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Twenty years later, he developed the basic principles of gymnastics, and in 1800 was It issued a special tutorial that will become a standard reference for physical education in the English language world.
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With regard to the promotion of sports among women, then in 1823 Catharina Beecher (Catharine Beecher), one of the pioneers of fitness in the US, I opened the Hartford Female Seminary - the first educational institution for women, in which there were courses in physical education within the curriculum education.
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In 1824, Massachusetts has its first large sports hall in the open air, which held the first training school program in the USA Gymnastics.
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Sport as a mass activity came into the life of our society in the end of XIX century.
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At the beginning of the XX century Georges Hébert (Georges Hebert) developed and began to spread the so-called natural method of physical training consisting of exercises of the military-applied nature.
Almost at the same time, the French professor Desbonne Edmond (Edmond Desbonnet) turned out to promote physical culture to the masses through the press in sports magazines. To this end, actively use the photo as a way to attract male and female attention. He opened a network of sports clubs, which have become a solid foundation for the development of fitness in Europe. However, these fitness centers were quite expensive and meant for the wealthy. After the First World War, access to these institutions received and the working class.
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Running is one of the most popular sports at the moment, is widespread only in the 1960s, thanks to the famous Australian coach Arthur Lydiard (Arthur Lydiard), who popularized jogging and brought a lot of evidence of its positive impact on health and life.
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Fitness in the form in which we know it today, appeared a little later than the beginning of the popularization of running, - in the early 70-ies of XX century.
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In Russia, the term "physical culture" has been recognized in all the higher authorities after the 1917 revolution. In 1918 in Moscow there was a first Institute of Physical Culture.
During all this time, it was invented and tried a great number of sports techniques, diets and special exercise equipment. The emergence of new "old" trend continues to this day, and we try, choose, passionately defending what we liked, and then easily plunge headlong into yet another fashionable sport for.
Finally - a great video showing the evolution of women's training in the last 100 years. Enjoy watching!