1, the fitness function of sports
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.
Second, the social function
1, educational function
The educational function of physical education is embodied by the promotion and development of physical education to people's body and mind, so as to promote the realization of educational goals.
The educational function of physical education is mainly reflected in the following aspects: physical exercise can promote the formation of good living habits; Promote people's socialization by providing social norms education and trying social roles; Only by promoting the formation of personality, restricting the development of personality and cultivating enterprising spirit can sports play a role in promoting the formation and development of personality.
2. Political function
As a social, cultural and educational activity with wide influence in the world, physical education has a close relationship with politics in today's society and has a unique function in safeguarding the interests of the ruling class and handling international and ethnic relations.
Mainly reflected in: sports can enhance the prestige of the country and the nation, sports can serve the country's diplomacy, and sports can also enhance national unity.
3. Economic function
The role of sports in promoting economic development. The connection between sports and economy began with the development of modern market economy.
The economic function of sports is mainly reflected in the following aspects: sports can improve the quality of workers and promote the development of productive forces; Sports can promote consumption and expand economic growth point.
4. Cultural function
As a practical activity, the cultural value of sports represented by the Olympic Games lies in people's own value, that is, people's comprehensive, free and harmonious development, which is the harmonious unity of individual personality and social personality.
Extended data:
In ancient Greece, games, wrestling and gymnastics were once listed as educational contents. 17 ~ 18 century, hunting, swimming, mountain climbing, running and jumping were also added to western education, but there was no unified name. At the end of 18, German J.C.F Gutz Jordan Mutch once classified and integrated these activities, which were collectively called "gymnastics".
/kloc-in the 9th century, on the one hand, a new gymnastics system was formed in Germany, which was widely spread in Europe and America; On the other hand, many new sports have emerged one after another. In the school, more and more sports beyond the original scope of gymnastics have been gradually developed, and a new concept of "physical education is education through physical activities" has been established.
Therefore, for quite a period of time, the words "gymnastics" and "sports" coexisted, mixed with each other and quite confused. It was not until the beginning of the 20th century that they gradually became known as "sports" internationally.
China has a long history of sports, but "sports" is a foreign word. It first appeared in the early and late 20th century. At that time, a large number of Japanese students went to China to study, 190 1 to 1906. There are also many middle school sports. After returning home, they introduced the word "sports" to China.
In China, the word "sports" first appeared in 1904. When it comes to the comprehensive education of children in kindergartens in Hubei, it says, "Keep healthy and vigorous, and develop sports bases." 1905 also mentioned in "Teaching Introduction of Hunan Mengyang College": "Sports Kung Fu and gymnastics develop on the surface, while music and songs develop inside."
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