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‘Healthy human movement exploration through the disciplines of Pilates, Exercise Physiology and Remedial Massage.’

This blog is no long updated and is only kept as an archive, my writing can now be found at the Movement Health and Ex Phys newsletters on Substack. Thanks for reading, Warwick…

Beginnings of Exercise Science and Physical Education..

Posted on June 30, 2018 by Movement Health in Exercise Physiology, Physical Culture

A group of men stretching on the Swedish bars at the Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics

The European Gymnast Physical Culturists played a substantial role in the beginnings of Exercise Science and Physical Education. Swedish Gymnastics and the German Turnen organisations were a foundation from which the scientific discipline of Sport and Exercise Science and the Physical Education profession emerged. In 1813 with government support Pehr Henrik Ling founder of Swedish …read more

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