Nowadays, to see a person on a bicycle or while running is not something unusual, although not long ago it was not in trend. In this article you can find out when and where the first messages on a healthy lifestyle appeared.
The fashion for a beautiful body and strength went back to ancient times, namely, from the time of Plato, Socrates, Pythagus, who glorified not only with their great work but also not small achievements in sports. The revival of the fashion for a healthy lifestyle began at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries, and an important factor in this were bodybuilding, bodybuilding and fist fights. In Europe, for example, this image was distributed primarily through circus art, in which the best strongmen of the continent took part, and amazed everyone with their abilities. Moving from city to city, they showed what the human body is capable of. In 1896, the first Olympic Games of our time took place, and the fashion for sports spun with renewed vigor.
America became the homeland of fitness and gyms. After the war, doctors began to sound the alarm: more than half of the children in the 50s had poor physical fitness and could not cope with the standards, and until the 70s the US population began to suffer from obesity and cardiovascular diseases. After the authorities took up the popularization of sports and fitness, the number of people who began to go to the halls increased 4 times.
Although sport in the Soviet Union has always been in demand and assistance from the authorities, at the turn of the 80s and 90s people were not up to fitness. Only since the 2000s has this trend entered the mass consciousness. Along with improving people's well-being, the penetration of Western culture into our lives, it also becomes important for us how we feel.
At the given moment, sport is in the first place for a lot of people, since they realized that a beautiful body does not only attract opposites of a full lock of a healthy mind. Have a nice workout!