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· 17 Apr 2022

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Physical education

#educacin When we talk about physical education, we refer to a pedagogical discipline that covers the human body from various physical perspectives, aspiring to a comprehensive education regarding the human body that contributes to care and health, but also to sports training and against sedentary life.

Just as in the various educational bodies the individual is mentally and socially trained, they are taught trades, techniques, knowledge, and physical education aspires to educate them in the use of their own body, whether recreational and athletic, or simple health and survival, strengthening bones and muscles in crucial stages of human development.

Modern physical education was born as such in the early 19th century, in the academies of Switzerland and Germany, with various sports, largely inherited from the physical disciplines that the ancient aristocracy, usually linked to military trades, practiced all his life, such as fencing and horseback riding.

Added to this were more popular sports disciplines, and then speed sports, which often combined the body with mechanical tools, such as bicycles. But it would not be until the twentieth century that the first institutions for teacher training in physical education would be opened.