Recreational Sports & Fitness Day
Recreational Sports & Fitness Day is observed next on Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 (79 days from today).
The habit of regular physical exercise not only helps us relax our minds, improve memory, reduce stress and sleep better, but it is also a positive therapy that works against depression, anxiety, and depression. ADHD and many other mental illnesses. Every year, February 22 is Recreational Sports And Fitness Day, organized to call attention to national and individual attention to the benefits of fitness programs, recreational sports to health and well-being gods of all ages when participating.
Science and practice have proven that exercise is the most effective and positive method in improving health and enhancing physical fitness.
The health function of sports is through scientific and reasonable movement activities, through biological and medical mechanisms to improve and enhance the efficiency of metabolism. The ability to synthesize and decompose nutrients in the body, improve health and strengthen physical strength, make the body and the practitioner themselves have effective development.
Although the social regimes, political conceptions, forms of religion, beliefs and perceptions of countries in the world are not the same, they all attach great importance to the effects of physical training and sport in education. The educational function of sports is mainly displayed in two ways area:
Effects of physical training and sport in society: Because physical training and sports are active, competitive, artistic, polite and cosmopolitan, they can evoke and stimulate patriotism, pride and national unity. This is the meaning of sport in society.
Educational effects of physical training and sport in schools: To realize the goal of our country's education and training career is to create new people who are fully developed in virtue, intelligence, body, beauty and labor movement, sport is an indispensable part. Physical training and sports help improve physical, educate the spirit of solidarity, moral and psychological qualities... for students.
For a long time, people have realized and taken advantage of the recreational function of sport as a tool for entertainment after hours of hard work, on the other hand, sports are used as spirit food.
Ex: Fishing sport, sports games, forms of sports performances
Since ancient times, in the struggle for survival and protection of the interests of tribes, tribes, and nations, sports have become indispensable parts of physical training and combat skills for soldiers. In order to win wars, soldiers must be trained in skills such as running, jumping, swimming, etc. Since then, the military service function of physical training and sports were born.
In modern society, with the development of weapons and the requirements for the enhancement of the army, it is required that soldiers must have good physical and mental strength, so the conduct of comprehensive training in terms of physical and motor skills such as running, jumping, swimming... become very important issues that sport has special significance in meeting the above needs.
Sports and economics have a reciprocal relationship, there have been many economists who believe that improved labor and production is an important criterion of socio-economic development. Especially when assessing production value, human qualities are the most important micro-criteria. Among the types of human qualities, physical qualities play a very important role.
Therefore, countries around the world have paid great attention to the effects of sports on the physical development of workers, taking jobs to reduce the incidence of diseases as a goal to promote labor force production of society. This represents the initial economic function of gymnastics, sports.
High performance sports and economic sectors, trade, tourism... have a very close relationship. A sports competition held at a certain location will entail a series of services and economic sectors such as tourism, commerce, information, and development services.
Along with art and culture, sport plays a very important role in laying the foundation for political relations between countries. It is expressed through the conduct of friendly sports competitions to serve as a premise for diplomatic missions to work and cooperate.
In international competitions, when a country's athlete wins a championship, that country's flag is raised highest and that country's national anthem is played, glory and political significance. This value can only be obtained when the athletes compete with all their might for the national colors and colors.
History of Recreational Sports and Fitness Day
The first Recreational Sports and Fitness Day was held on February 22, 1950.
Observing Recreational Sports and Fitness Day
To celebrate Recreational Sports and Fitness Day, join the recreational and sports activities around you. Organize sports competitions to get the benefits they bring. Share your Recreational Sports and Fitness Day with the hashtag #RecreationalSportsAndFitnessDay.
Observed
Recreational Sports & Fitness Day has been observed annually on February 22nd.Dates
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
Thursday, February 22nd, 2024
Saturday, February 22nd, 2025
Sunday, February 22nd, 2026
Monday, February 22nd, 2027
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