When did sport and health come into existence?

[veronica]

i interested to konw whe issues concerning sport , health and nutrition became important. Also when did people start exercising, jogging etc.

[Invincible Summer]

I don't know anthropologically when humans began consciously exercising, etc, but I could imagine that our ancestors were like "Hey I can throw the spear ___ far... how bout you?" and so on.

And becoming stronger was important to survival. However, i think conscious exercise like going to "work out" probably started during the Industrial Revolution when people weren't doing as much backbreaking, muscle-building manual labour.

[mossy noonmann]

http://www.revleft.com/vb/../images/icons/icon1.gif When did sport and health come into existence?


not sure, probably about the same time as the rest of the stuff on the boards


Also when did people start exercising, jogging etc.

when nike (or doctors or daytime tele etc) realised they could make loads of cash

[ComradeOm]

Probably with the emergence of agricultural societies and a class that could afford to spend time becoming athletes. Certainly its ancient, see the original Olympics and all that, but would have been irrelevant/alien to most common people

As for the idea of fitness as something that everyone should worry about or work to achieve, I'd probably date that to the emergence of the gymnastics movement in 19th C Germany/Austria

[timbaly]

not sure, probably about the same time as the rest of the stuff on the boards

Definitely not true. It was certainly after 2005.

[Sentinel]

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It's still an interesting topic to discuss though