History of Athletics - his movements were the basic exercises

History of Athletics - his movements were the basic exercises.

The Athletics derives from the Greek "Athlos" which means fighting.
Athletics is understood as the practice of a set of physical exercises based on natural gestures of man march
running, jumping and throwing and can be found along its origins to the human race.
Facing the environment, fluctuating between hostility and kindness, primitive man ran, jumped and threw,
reacting instinctively so that his movements were the basic exercises of what is now the Athletics.

It can be said that, in the regions of West Asia which were the basis of flowering crops Mesopotânicas, and
Egypt and Crete, if practiced a rudimentary Athletics.
The archaeological inscriptions in the tombs of Tarquinia and Chius (in ancient Etruria region of Italy) allowed, to
historians deduce that those who built, practiced a form of what is now the javelin and disc;
figures well preserved paint the dumbbells, ie jumping in distance carrying a weight in his hands.

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