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Gymnastics is a sport characterized by the performance of sequences of movements and which must be put into practice among other things, flexibility, agility and force.
Regarding the origins of this sport and contrary to what we all suppose, the Greeks were not the first cultists in the matter, but long before, the Chinese and the Indians were the first to know and use the mechanotherapy.

The civilization China known as Brahma was the first to impose the performance of muscular exercises accompanied by inspirations of air deep to strengthen the muscles of the body in order to eliminate cramps, rheumatism and deviations in the spine. The Indians also knew how to use a similar mechanism to which they gave the name of shamposing.

But hey, in addition to these first attempts, without a doubt, the Greeks were other great champions of gymnastics but with different purposes. For example, the Dorian race used gymnastics for warlike purposes and the Athenians sought to achieve through it, harmony and grace of the body and spirit. However, once in the

Middle Ages, the discipline, began to lose more followers than it gained, until modernity, where it regained it.

Nowadays, this Athenian custom of cultivating the body and gymnastics is resumed. has become something everyday for everyone, already transcending professional athletes and the limits of the school where many of us used to practice it. Sports institutes and gyms are a recurring and common postcard in most countries.

Modern gymnastics regulated through the International Gymnastics Federation is composed of six disciplines: general, artistic, aerobic, acrobatic, rhythmic and trampoline.

Gymnastics is one of the many Olympic disciplines, being the rhythmic and the artistic the best known for its recurring competence in the Olympic Games. Meanwhile, the modality of trampoline is the newest and last to join the Olympics, since Sydney 2000.

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