Indoor gymnastics

In the 19th century, indoor gymnastics was the term used to describe regular physical exercises , provided they can be performed in living rooms without a lot of equipment . It can be performed partly as pure therapeutic gymnastics and partly because of a general lack of exercise .

The gym usually consisted of calisthenics while standing or lying down, and the weight - and staff exercises u. Ä.

Of the devices that can be used for indoor gymnastics, the so-called Bacon apparatus was considered to be the most versatile , which could serve partly as a pair of swing rings for slope and support, partly as a horizontal bar .

literature

• Arnd Krüger : history of movement therapy. In: Preventive Medicine. Springer Loseblatt Collection, Heidelberg 1999, 07.06, pp. 1–22.
• Friedrich Robert Nitzsche: The healing of disturbances in blood circulation and blood mixing through rational indoor gymnastics. 2nd edition Dresden, 1870.
• Moritz Schreber : Medical indoor gymnastics or presentation and application of the immediate ... therapeutic gymnastics movements. 28th edition. Leipzig, 1902.