Sport is one of the few things that make people healthy. The general belief is that a person who goes in for sports can’t be weak and ill. Physically inactive people get old earlier than those, who find time for sport activity. And of course good health is better than good medicine.
Sport is probably as old as the humanity itself. It was raising with the development of a human society. In ancient times men competed with each other in strength and deftness to decide who was the worthiest. Nowadays sport is being widely popularized all over the world and in our country in particular.
Thus, children are taught to love sport since early childhood. In kindergartens a child takes his first sporting steps. He learns to run, jump and dance. In schools and colleges sport is a compulsory subject. Many young people attend sport sections. Some of them dream to become professional sportsmen, others would like to stay amateurs.
As for me, I’m fond of aerobics. First of all aerobics helps to keep myself fit. It also attracts me because it resembles dancing and is carried with the accompaniment of music. Besides, twice a week I go to the swimming pool. Such sport activity helps me feel cheerful, active and full of energy.
My Attitude to Sports and Games
In my opinion sports is one of the things that helps to keep people fit and healthy. Physically inactive people get older earlier than those who have a lot of exercises.
Being in good health means having both body and mind in good working order, free from disease and pain.
I like the Latin proverb that says «A sound mind is in a sound body.» If you want to be physically and mentally healthy – go in for sports.
Sports is very popular in our family. Practically all the year round my father and I do our usual morning exercises on the stadium which is close to our house. Only if the weather is really nasty we do them at home. When my Dad was young he was a good basket ball player and played for his institute. He has never given up playing and now he has his training twice a week. Sometimes he takes me with him and I play with his team-mates.
My Mum and my elder brother are good swimmers and they go to the swimming-pool every Sunday in winter and use every chance to swim in the river when it is warm.
My favourite sport is tennis. I have been playing it since I was nine. I belong to a youth tennis club and often take part in different tennis tournaments. I don’t always win them but every time I lose a game I learn something from my mistakes. I believe that sports help to build character. Besides tennis I am good at other sports games and our school Physical Training teacher often asks me to play for our volleyball, football and basketball teams. I never refuse because I enjoy playing.
All our family likes to watch sports programmes on TV. We support «Dynamo» Kyiv football team and never miss important matches. We are also hockey fans and really get upset when our favourite team loses. But we never have pessimistic feelings because we believe that winning is not the main thing in sports.
Extreme Sports
Speed, excitement, danger. You can find all these in the different extreme sports that have become popular last 10 years. Take bungee jumping. You jump off a bridge and you fall and fall, and then, just before you hit the ground or water, an elastic rope pulls you back. In skysurfing you jump out of aeroplane and use a board to “surf” the air, doing gymnastics in mid-air! And extreme sports on land can be just as dangerous.
Winter sports have always an element of danger. For example snowboarding, which has all the excitement of surfing but on snow, is more dangerous even than skiing. Probably the most dangerous of all the new winter sports is snow rafting. You sit in a rubber boat and sail down a mountain at great speed – and you can’t control the boat!
Of course, water sports have always been fun. Ice diving, for those people who are absolutely crazy. You put on diving equipment and dive under a frozen lake. And, if that’s not enough, you try to walk upside down on the ice! I feel cold just thinking about it!
A lot of people are not fit nowadays. It’s a big problem today. If you want to feel fit you’d better go in for one kind of sport or another. I think that everyone must do all he can to be healthy. Good health is better than the best medicine. All kinds of physical exercises are very useful to make our bodies strong and to keep ourselves fit and healthy.
To tell the truth I don’t do sports regularly and it is not an essential part of my daily life. In the morning I do some exercises just to awake. In summer I go swimming as there is a beautiful lake with pure water where my Granny lives. In winter I swim in the swimming pool. I like to ride the bike. I shouldn’t call myself a sports fan. Of course, I like to watch sports competitions on TV, like hockey or football. But most of all I admire extreme kinds of sport. I think they are really cool.
