Unusual sports last

• Unusual sport last

The last century in full can be called health and fitness century: the first time in human history, we have thought of maintaining good physical shape. Now, when every neighborhood has its own fitness club, we are already hard to understand what tricks people had to go, just to keep yourself in shape.

Wheel health

While some exercises of the past seem to us somewhat strange, health wheel was just plain dangerous. By the mid-1930s every American housewife dreamed of such a wheel, the design of which is reminiscent of that in many ways, as can be seen in the house of the hamster.

medicine ball

Printed heavy balls are often used by athletes to strengthen the muscles of the shoulder girdle, but few people know that he was invented for women. This is how the lovely ladies were asked to keep the shape and waist.

Boxing kangaroo with

Believe it or not, but this box has quite a long and glorious history. In the late 1900s, Australia exported only at the time their property: the kangaroo. Spectator sport lasted until the mid-1920s.

Children sport

People for a long time could not figure out how to raise children. To the modern health care and education, we were very thorny path. Here, for example, as I suggested to preserve the harmony of the child Madame Laurie Alvin, who became famous as an unrivaled expert in this field. Countless children had been turned upside down - without any visible results.

Exercises for housewives

Slenderness was not always a desirable quality of girls. Until 1910 were in fashion big women, blood and milk. And only by 1925-mu was formed more or less a modern vision of the ideal figure: waist, hips, small breasts. Girls without exception enthusiastic Pilates and popular so far.

Sport everywhere

Pioneers of fitness required no gyms. On this typical photos of that time American wrestler Joe Savoldi, trains at the back of the plane. Attention of other passengers did not bother athlete: the main result.

House of sweat

Steam chambers considered the easiest way to lose weight. In such devices, more like some kind of torture design, poor girl spent long hours trying to achieve the perfect figure. Years passed before doctors managed to impress that dumped the weight returns with the first glasses of the same water.