Amazon Quiz (October 4): This sport evolved from exercises used by which ancient culture?
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Answer: Greece
Gymnastics is a form of exercise that calls for coordination, balance, strength, flexibility, agility, and endurance. The arm, leg, shoulder, back, chest, and abdominal muscular groups all develop as a result of gymnastics movements. Gymnastics developed from circus performance skills and from exercises practised by the ancient Greeks that included horse mounting and dismounting techniques.
The verb gymnazo, which means to “train naked,” “train in gymnastic exercise,” or simply “to train, to exercise,” is related to the Greek adjective gymnos, from whence the word gymnastics is derived. Due to the fact that ancient athletes trained and competed naked, the verb had this connotation.
The origins of gymnastics may be traced to ancient Greece, specifically to Sparta and Athens. Philostratus’ work Gymnastics describes this exercise for that era. Later, the gym was used to train soldiers for battle.
The word gymnastics comes from the related Greek verb gumnáz, which means “to train naked or nude,” because young men who practised gymnastics did so without clothing. Physical fitness was a quality that both men and women were held in high regard in ancient Greece. Gymnastics didn’t become more structured and utilised to prepare soldiers for battle until the Romans seized Greece in 146 BC.
Athens coupled this more physical training with the intellectual education on the basis of Philostratus’ assertion that gymnastics is a sort of wisdom similar to philosophy, poetry, music, geometry, and astronomy.
The discipline of educating the body and the mind were combined at the Palestra, a physical education training facility, allowing for a type of gymnastics that was more stylistic and individual and which left behind the form that concentrated on strictness, discipline, the emphasis on beating records, and focus on strength.
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