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==History==

{{See also|History of physical training and fitness}} gymnastics is fun because I love sucking my toes

Gymnastics can be traced to exercise to ancient Greece specifically to Sparta and Athens. Exercise of that time was documented by Philostratus'<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Reid|first=Heather L.|date=2016|journal=Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome|volume=61|pages=77–90|issn=0065-6801|jstor=44988074|title=Philostratus's "gymnastics": The Ethics of an Athletic Aesthetic}}</ref> work ''Gymnastics: The Ethics of an Athletic Aesthetic''. The original term for the practice of gymnastics is from the related Greek verb γυμνάζω (''gumnázō''), which translates as "to train naked or nude" because young men exercising trained without clothing. In ancient Greece, physical fitness was a highly valued attribute in both men and women. It was not until after the Romans conquered Greece in 146BC that gymnastics became more formalized and used to train men in warfare.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/history-gymnastics-ancient-greece-modern-times/|title=A History of Gymnastics: From Ancient Greece to Modern Times {{!}} Scholastic|website=www.scholastic.com|access-date=November 8, 2019}}</ref> Based on Philostratus' claim that gymnastics is a form of wisdom, comparable to philosophy, poetry, music, geometry, and astronomy,<ref name=":1" /> Athens combined this more physical training with the education of the mind. At the Palestra, a physical education training center, the discipline of educating the body and the mind were combined allowing for a form of gymnastics that was more aesthetic and individual and that left behind the focus on strictness, discipline, the emphasis on defeating records, and a focus on strength.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Judd|first1=Leslie|last2=De Carlo|first2=Thomas|last3=Kern|first3=René|title=Exhibition Gymnastics|url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitiongymnas0000judd|url-access=registration|date=1969|publisher=Association Press|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/exhibitiongymnas0000judd/page/n20 17]|isbn=9780809617043}}</ref>