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Gymnastics is a complex sport that emphasizes physical fitness through exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and endurance. The sport was significantly developed by Per Henrik Ling, who founded the Royal Gymnastics Central Institute in 1813 and created a system of exercises for medical benefits. A typical gymnastics program includes phases of warm-up, flexibility, strength, skills, dance, and agility to enhance performance and prevent injuries.

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Gymnastics is a complex sport that emphasizes physical fitness through exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and endurance. The sport was significantly developed by Per Henrik Ling, who founded the Royal Gymnastics Central Institute in 1813 and created a system of exercises for medical benefits. A typical gymnastics program includes phases of warm-up, flexibility, strength, skills, dance, and agility to enhance performance and prevent injuries.

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1. What is gymnastics?

Gymnastics is a sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility,
agility, coordination, and endurance which is very complex sport. It is the discipline that seeks to
develop, strengthen and give flexibility to body through physical exercise routines. The term gymnastics,
derived from a Greek word meaning “to exercise naked”.

In the sport of gymnastics, the important thing here is physical fitness as for obese or
overweight it is difficult for them to balance although they have strength and coordination or maybe
endurance however, they’re lack of flexibility and agility. That’s why proper physical exercise is very
necessary and included in the gymnastics. almost all the gymnastics I see are skinny even though they
lack of strength but they can control their body and balance easily because of their weight.

“To exercise naked”, so that’s why the gymnast’s sportswear is fitted and not only for in case to
be worn out or tear their clothes or sportswear but also it represents of the word “Gymnastics”.

2. Who are the persons behind the development of gymnastics? What are their
contributions?
The prime developer of natural gymnastics was Per Henrik Ling. In 1813 Ling founded a teacher-
training center, the Royal Gymnastics Central Institute, in Stockholm. Ling devised and taught a system
of gymnastic exercises designed to produce medical benefits for the athlete.

3. What are the phases of gymnastic program?


Warm up, flexibility strength, skills, dance and agility. Warm up to avoid injuries, flexibility to
moved freely, stretch and widely without having bone injury, skills and dance to perform great, agility to
perform fast as you can.

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