Sports are broadly categorized into competitive sports, recreational sports, popular sports, and medical sports.
1. Competitive sports
Also known as "athletics". It refers to the scientific and systematic training and competition to overcome opponents, to achieve excellence in athletic performance, and to maximize individual and collective potential in terms of physical, physiological, psychological, and athletic ability.
It includes two forms of athletic training and athletic competition. It is characterized by: the full mobilization and development of athletes' physical, intellectual and psychological potential; intense confrontation and competition; participants have sufficient physical strength and superb skills; follow the uniform rules of competition, international and recognized achievements.
Competitive sports as practiced in today's world are a product of social history. In ancient Greek times, more than 700 B.C., there were races, throws and wrestling programs. There have been hundreds of developments to date.
Popular sports include track and field, gymnastics, basketball, volleyball, soccer, table tennis, badminton, weightlifting, swimming and cycling. Countries and regions also have their own special ethnic traditional programs such as Chinese martial arts, Sepak Takraw and Kabaddi in Southeast Asia.
2. Recreational Sports
It refers to a type of physical activity whose purpose is to entertain the mind and body during the rest of the day or at a specific time. It is characterized as amateur, recreational and entertainment. The content usually includes ball games, active games, traveling, chess and traditional national sports.
Based on the organization of the activity, it can be divided into individual, family and collective; based on the conditions of the activity, can be divided into indoor and outdoor; based on the competition, it can be divided into competition competition and non-competition competition; commercial and non-commercial; based on the mode of participation in the activity can be divided into ornamental activities and sports activities. To carry out leisure sports activities is conducive to physical and mental health, stimulate sentiment and cultivate noble character.
3, mass sports
Also known as "social sports", "mass sports". In order to entertain the body and mind, enhance physical fitness, prevention and treatment of disease and training of sports reserves, widely carried out in the community sports activities in general.
4, medical sports
refers to the use of sports to treat certain diseases and injuries, restore and improve the body's function of medical methods. Generally not limited by time, place, equipment conditions.
Medical gymnastics, jogging, walking, cycling, qigong, tai chi and special exercise equipment (such as tensioners, automatic running platform, etc.), as well as sunbathing, air baths, water baths, etc. are often used as a treatment. It should vary from person to person, consistently, step by step, and through medication or surgical treatment and psychological counseling.?
Expanded Information
Functions of Sports
1. Sports have the functions of physical fitness and recreation, in addition to education, politics and economy.
Sports is a complex socio-cultural phenomenon, with physical activity as the basic means to enhance physical fitness, improve health and its cultivation of a variety of psychological qualities of people for the purpose.
2. Sports also help to cultivate people's courageous and tenacious character, the quality of self-transcendence, the will to meet challenges and the ability to take risks, as well as the sense of competition, the spirit of cooperation and the concept of fairness.
Some sports activities and sports events play an indispensable role in enriching people's cultural life, promoting the spirit of collectivism and patriotism, and enhancing the centripetal force and cohesion of the country and the nation.
3, fitness long-distance running can improve the respiratory system and cardiovascular system function Scientific practice has confirmed that the longer rhythmic deep breathing, can make the human body to breathe a lot of oxygen, oxygen absorption if more than the usual 7-8 times, can inhibit the growth and reproduction of human cancer cells.
Secondly, the long-distance running exercise also improves the oxygen supply state of the heart muscle, accelerates the metabolism of the heart muscle, and at the same time, it also makes the heart muscle fibers become thicker, and the heart contraction force is enhanced, so as to improve the heart's working ability.
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