One of the functions of sports to individuals. The function of physical exercise is mainly reflected in the following aspects: Physical exercise can promote the health of individuals by promoting the healthy development of the eight systems of the human body, namely, the motor system, nervous system, circulatory system, respiratory system, digestive system, endocrine system, immune system and urinary system.
2. Healthy psychological function
Physical education plays a role in healthy psychology by developing people's cognitive ability, perfecting people's personality and temperament, and enhancing people's will quality.
3. Interpersonal function
Participating in sports activities, especially some collective sports activities that can only be completed through cooperation, can increase interpersonal communication, break self-isolation, make people gain self-confidence, and thus change participants' views on life and their own personality and behavior.
4. Leisure and entertainment functions
Leisure and entertainment are free, voluntary and pleasant activities in people's leisure time. As a physical activity to develop people's "self-nature", sports play an irreplaceable personal and social function in leisure and entertainment.
5. Aesthetic function of life
Beauty is the expression of human vitality. Sports can greatly stimulate and promote the beauty of human life. The core of "the beauty of life" is "caring for yourself", emphasizing self-concern, dealing with others and paying attention to physical experience. Sports stimulate and hone the beauty of human biological life and spiritual life through various sports forms, and enhance human vitality.
Extended data
According to historical data such as cultural relics and buildings, China began to carry out sports as early as around 2000 BC. Gymnastics was a very popular sport in ancient China. From the monument built for Pharaoh, we can see that swimming, fishing and other sports have developed in ancient Egypt thousands of years ago and established the rules of sports.
Other sports in Egypt include javelin throwing, high jump and wrestling. The sports in ancient Persia include Iranian traditional martial arts and heroic sports, which are closely related to fighting skills. Sports that also originated in ancient Persia include polo and javelin competitions.
There have been a large number of sports since ancient Greece, and the development of military culture and sports in ancient Greece influenced each other. A prominent manifestation of the profound influence of sports on the ancient Greeks is that they founded the Olympic Games, which was held every four years in a small village called Olympia in the Peloponnesus.
Since the ancient Olympic Games, the organization and related rules of sports have been continuously strengthened. Industrialization has given residents in developed and developing countries more leisure time to participate in and watch ornamental sports. The number of people participating in sports has increased and communication has become more common.
With the strengthening of mass media and global contact, this trend is more obvious. The specialization of sports has become the mainstream and sports have become more popular. Sports fans chase professional athletes through radio, television and internet, and they also participate in amateur sports to get exercise and entertainment.
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