On August 11, the Day of the Athlete is celebrated in our country.
Now this word – physical education – is forgotten as soon as they graduate from school. Fitness, crossfit and other zumba with shaping have long supplanted ordinary physical training from our vocabulary. Probably for the best. Previously, they were engaged in sports only for health, but now they have learned to build and grind their own body – there is nothing wrong with the decorative function of physical activity. On the contrary, there is only more beauty.
However, our mothers understood all the benefits of sports for beauty when the western star Jane Fonda appeared. She brought aerobics into our lives, the first tight bodysuits made of shiny synthetics, long knee-highs and other seductive paraphernalia that Soviet women had no idea about before.
Christie Brinkley, one of the stars of aerobics
And before that? Before that, sports were also full. It was not for nothing that the USSR Olympic team collected all conceivable and inconceivable medals. Just remember how many outdoor games there were! Classics, rubber bands, improvised yard competitions in rope, bouncers, rounders, towns. It was considered an honor to participate in the lightning. The schoolchildren went on hikes with the whole class – yes, no one was embarrassed by spending the night in nature. But then there were no cell phones, you just had to let the children go – and somehow magically not worry.
Skiing in physical education lessons, the TRP norms, which are now trying to revive, tour rallies, even the word “marathon” did not scare anyone. They were chasing not after a beautiful body, but after the result: those same “faster, higher, stronger.” It was fashionable to be like the runner Galina Vinogradova or the athlete Alexander Chudina. We went to the mountains without newfangled equipment, ran and did boxing, not wondering if you were wearing the right sneakers. Well, at least sneakers in general, not tattered sneakers.
The editorial staff of healthy-food-near-me.com collected a retro photo of those times in order to remember this – what it was like, sport in our Soviet past. Scroll through the photo gallery in the direction of the arrow to the right – let’s remember this together!
