Who made up gymnastics?

Gymnastics also included discus throwing and hand to hand fighting. It wasn’t so much a sport as it was a fitness training program. Eventually some forms of gymnastics were incorporated in the Olympics. The practice was continued by the Romans. The routines became more oriented towards preparing the individual for training as a soldier. read more

The resurgence of recreational sports occurred in the early 1800s courtesy of Johann Gutsmith and Frederich Jahn, who created devices to be used in gymnastics. Since Jahn created most of these apparatuses, he is often credited as the creator of modern gymnastics. read more

In Sparta, among the activities introduced into the training program was the Agoge or exhibition gymnastics made up of gymnastic elements in the form of the Pyrrhic-a dance in a military style-performed for state dignitaries in the final year of a student's training. read more