HISTORICAL PROLEGOMENES TO THE FORMATION OF MODERN GYMNASTICS

Abstract

Recently, the activity and interest of a wide range of young people in various types of mass sports and physical activity for the purpose of recreation and restoration of working capacity, to ensure an effective and relevant level of physical fitness and an adequate state of individual health, has begun to progress. Urbanization and globalization of the processes of development of modern society have led to active searches by humanity for innovative physical culture and health systems that would solve the above-mentioned problems. Gymnastics, which in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Enlightenment era performed general educational functions – the formation of physical and intellectual development, was also affected by such activity; in modern times it acquired the status of a sport and currently continues to develop in the direction of ensuring the health of the current population in various countries of the globe. This scientific article presents the material of the analysis by the author team of scientific and methodological literature on the historical factors of development, formation and further prospects of gymnastics as an Olympic sport and a physical culture and health system. According to scientists of Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment era, gymnastics was a positive aspect of improving physical qualities and motor skills, it contributed to the production of material values of society and transformed the physical and aesthetic nature of man. Gymnastics as an academic discipline educates, develops and forms the sports and physical culture of a future specialist in the field of physical culture and sports. In Ukraine, gymnastics is a priority sport, the national team always wins medals at the Olympic Games. The popularity of modern sports and rhythmic gymnastics, acrobatics, and aerobics among young people lays the foundation for the prospects of their further historical development.