Before you head out to your favorite sweat shop and impress the people with your push ups and barbell repetitions, you might want to know how the gym's history began.
The
gym actually was started by the ancient Greeks, the only civilized people in the ancient Mediterranean to develop a strict regimen for physical fitness.
Health and well-being was inculcated to the youth as early as four, and when they were old enough, they were enrolled by their parents to a place the Greeks call "gymnasium," literally "a place to be naked." Young men performed their exercise in the nude.
Fast forward to the 19th Century, and the first indoor gym was built in Germany with promotion from a certain Adolph Spiess who pushed for
youth gymnastics (now for modesty's sake, the children wear comfortable clothes).
Modern gyms today operate like health clubs, offering a wide array of exercise machineries and sometimes spas (usually goes with an expensive membership fee).
