Primitive era: to live, to exercise
It’s not far from it. It’s 10,000 years before BC. At that time, people’s minds often echoed such a voice: “Run, run away from danger and live.†Under the harsh natural conditions of the time, "healing up the body" is a key factor for human beings to stay alive and stay alive.
Human body functions evolved rapidly during that period. In addition to simple "running", they also learned to walk slowly, balance, jump, advance, rock climbing, lifting, carrying, throwing, chasing and confronting, all in order to better adapt. Life in the wild, even in the early days of dance, is also seen as being created when there is enough food and no threat to the beast.
Primitive humans do not have any fitness programs, and their bodies are built entirely in the daily life by relying on the instinct of survival.
Neolithic Age: Agriculture Brings Change
Between 10,000 and 8000 BC, humans entered the Neolithic Age and began to learn to cultivate, which is often regarded as the first dawn in the history of human civilization.
People who know how to cultivate are no longer exhausted, but start to build homes in fixed locations. The activities of human activities have changed from hunting and grazing to repetitive daily agricultural labor. The previous run jumps and squats are useless. In a relatively closed agricultural environment, all kinds of actions have become simpler and safer than before - climbing ladders and climbing trees are completely different.
Ancient Empire: Exercise to defend the country
During the long period of collapse of the Roman Empire from 4000 BC to 476 AD, the progress of human civilization was accompanied by constant wars, from ancient Babylon to ancient Egypt, ancient Persia, and later to ancient Greece and Rome. The boys have been undergoing militarized training since they were very young. Why come? Preparation for war.
At that time, the purpose of military training was clear: marching on various terrains, jumping, carrying weights, unarmed struggles, and some weapons training. After the civilized east wind blows into human history, physical exercise is still very popular – the earliest sports meeting in history was in ancient Egypt, the earliest Olympic Games. The earliest sports were also unexpectedly derived from actual war and survival needs – running, high jump, throwing (disc or javelin), wrestling.
In addition to militarized training, ancient Greeks and ancient Romans were also very keen on the power and beauty displayed by the human body. Both wisdom and body shape were the ultimate goal they pursued. It is from this point on, that body shaping has become a transcendence of war needs. A higher pursuit.
Early fitness venue
Medieval: Basic abandonment of physical exercise
From the fifth century to the fifteenth century, the dark medieval period, the feudal separatism brought frequent wars, and the church rule was very strict. It controlled the cultural education in Western Europe. They not only adopted different degrees of asceticism in practice, but also I believe that there is a savior who is willing to exchange believers for eternal life after death at the expense of life. At this time, the flesh is regarded as an insignificant torso that suffers from pain, and there is no way to exercise the body. Except for a small number of nobles and mercenaries who exercised for the war, most people can only keep fit through agricultural labor.
Renaissance: Start again
The Renaissance (1400-1600) broke the dark shackles of the Middle Ages, and human exploration of the body began again, and this time it included multiple aspects of human body structure and function, human anatomy and sports.
Vitalino, a famous humanist educator in Italy, built the school's "Happy House" in 1420. It not only attaches importance to moral education, but also attaches importance to physical exercise, linking sports with intellectual education, and believes that a healthy body is the basic condition for the development of students' intelligence.
In 1569, the Italian medical scientist H. Mercurialis published the book Gymnastics. The book introduces the purpose and classification of ancient Greek sports, and describes the ancient Greek running, jumping, throwing, ball, dance and other sports, and discusses the medical effects of various Greek sports and the methods of re-launching these sports. This book has far-reaching implications for future generations.
After the industrial revolution: Europe and the United States are not the same
The occurrence of the industrial revolution made the traditional handicraft industry replaced by the machine industry. The seemingly simple changes have profoundly affected all aspects of human life and development. The wide application of the machine has greatly reduced the amount of human activity, and it has been the human exercise of the body. Maintaining the health and strength of the body in order to cope with the threat of war that may occur at any time has become the consensus of the whole people.
The rise of modern fitness
The concept of “fitness†has been promoted and popularized. Thanks to the Frenchman Edmond Desbonnet, who has written many articles related to fitness, with pictures of male and female athletes, and the concept of fitness Promoted throughout Europe. He himself also gained a lot in this process. During his heyday, he had more than 200 fitness centers in Europe. Going to the gym became a fashionable choice for the European upper class. Many famous bodybuilders in the early days benefited from the concept of De Niro.
In contrast, the American continent, Bernarr Macfadden became the leader in the field of fitness, not only invented the earliest chest-clamp, but also founded "Sports", one of the world's first bodybuilding magazines, and in 1903 First in the first round of the bodybuilding competition, Charles Atlas, the figure of the bodybuilding industry, was hand-picked. By 1935, McFadden's publishing empire had 35 million readers, and he himself became a millionaire.
It can be said that De Niro and McFadden have opened the curtain of the vigorous development of the fitness industry for human beings. Since then, it has become the consensus of everyone to maintain a good body through sports. Today, the fitness center and various fitness equipment can be seen everywhere. There are countless fitness magazines, books, DVDs, and even mobile apps that share the same purpose—how to get the most out of shape in the shortest amount of time.
In the past century, for the sake of the body, humans spend money like water - vibration belt, fitness teaching father Lalane teaching video, Jane Fonda's aerobics, Bo Fei home fitness equipment, thigh bodybuilder , belly wheel, taekwondo, pilates, spinning, P90X training videos, Wii fitness games, etc., and so on, there is always one for you.
Contemporary fitness culture: What have we lost?
While the fitness culture is popular, we need to stop and reflect: What have we got and lost in this long process?
The advantage is: exercise is almost the consensus of all human beings. We know our body better, pay more attention to our health, and act positively in action than any period in human history. I believe that you can find a place in the community where you live. The gym is not difficult.
But at the same time, the excessive dependence on fitness makes us far from nature at any time in history. Although the current medical level and fitness industry are unprecedentedly developed, a recent World Health Organization survey shows that the average life expectancy of Americans is now smaller than in 1993.
One of the most important reasons is that with the advancement of technology and the convenience of life, human beings no longer have strong physical motivations as in the past, and everyone is very tolerant of “fatâ€, one because of poor self-management. The people who are out of shape will not receive too much blame from society in the contemporary era.
One of the more important reasons is that most people, whether they are "fitness" or "slimming", are really pursuing "looking shape". Going to the gym has become a trivial "routine business" rather than really investing in sports. And the joy of exercising. Faced with hundreds of fitness methods, we are completely lost.
The future: find the heart
We can all foresee that the rapid development of technology will bring new vitality to the fitness industry. For example, smart wearable devices can monitor and record various data of the human body at any time. You can clearly see the display on the mobile terminal. Go to your own various data analysis charts and use high-tech means to master and manage your physical condition.
This is certainly not a bad thing, but is this really the right direction? Does reliance on technology not make us more and more lazy and more and more disregarding the true meaning of fitness? Perhaps what is more worthy of our work is to return to nature and return to the initial heart of human exercise.
"The birds that grow up in the cage can never understand flying." In the gym, we also began to ignore the real needs of the body. Although we live in a “foragingâ€, we can only use our fingers (called take-out), as long as we stay in the indoor gym to build a perfect body of contemporary society, but this does not mean the change of human biological instinct. After all, retrospective of the history of human fitness, in the long process of thousands of years, our sports and fitness are out of instinct for survival. It is only in the past 100 years that we have begun to explore more targeted fitness programs because of the rapid advancement of technology and society.
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