Where Did Gymnastics Start?

Gymnastics is a sport that mainly involves the performing of a certain sequences of movements which require a lot of physical strengths, with flexibility and balance. The origin of gymnastics dates back to the time of ancient Greeks. It is a known fact that gymnastics was a well known activity in ancient Greece. The Greeks use to practice gymnastics to improve their skills for the mounting and dismounting of a horse. They also used to practice these skills to become more agile, which would later prove to be useful during the time of war.

In ancient times gymnastics were worked out in by nude men in a gymnasium in Greece, a type of a venue which was meant only for intellectual and physical education.

The event in modern day gymnastics for men are :- High Bar, Parallel Bars, Pommel horse, Floor Exercise, Still Rings and Vault.

Gymnastics began in ancient Greece as a formalized way for athletes  to train their body for participation on many sports.  It was also a social outlet for Greek men who participated in gymnastics in conjunction with other activities, such as massage.  The connection and inter-relation of the body and mind (pyscho-soma) was an important Greek philosphers such as Plato, who promoted gymnastics as an art-form such as sculture, music and dance.  Gymnastics is still an ideal way of developing the body-mind connection to enhance fitness, health and well-being.