| （1.School of Architecture and Urban Planning，Beijing Architecture University，Beijing 100044，China；2.School of Management，Beijing Sport University，Beijing 100084，China；3.Department of History，Fudan University，Shanghai 200433，China) Abstract: The authors collated the course of development of western fitness culture, probed into the expression forms and affecting factors of fitness culture in western society at different historical stages, and on such a basis summed up 3 clues to the historical evolution of western fitness culture: ancient Greek competitive fitness culture that attached to competitive sports, German gymnastic fitness culture that based on education as the form, and mod-ern bodybuilding fitness culture that based on “figure beauty” and “healthy life” as purposes. The 3 clues to the his-torical evolution of western fitness culture were closely related to the social and historical scenarios at that time; the study of its expression forms and affecting factors is conducive to providing historical reference for the healthy de-velopment of the booming national fitness undertaking and fitness culture in China
Key words: sports history；fitness culture；ancient Greek sport；German gymnastics；body buildin |
