KEEPIHG FIT AND DOING SPORTS .
I you want to feel fit you’d better go in for one kind of sport or
another. I should admit that everyone must do all he can to be healthy.
Good health is better than the best medicine. «You have a sound mind in a
sound body» as the old Latin saying goes. The English proverb «Sickness in
the body brings sickness to the mind» expresses a similar idea but from
different point of view. 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. Then some
aerobics for myself. It puts me into the fine moods. In summer I go
swimming as there is a beautiful river with pure water where my Granny
lives. In winter, it’s rather long at our place, I should say, I prefer
skiing (There is nothing like the sight of a winter forest - a real fairy-
tale). I like to ride the bike and toboganning in winter. Mum says that I’m
to old to do it, why not after all? I shouldn’t call myself a sports fan.
Of course , I like to watch sports competitions on TV . Fortunately , they
show different ones - football , basketball . I like tennis tournaments
very much . I think , it’s a very intelligent kind of sport for clever
thinking people . Also I admire skiing championships , biathlon , swimming
. But what I like most is basketball . The best games are viewed on TV. I
came to know that modern basketball appeared in 1891 in the USA. The
originator, John Naismith was a coach at the college. He invented the
baskets and the rules of the game. Since then basketball has be become very
popular and is spread all over the world. It is the sport of strong tall
men, the sport of giants.
Doing sports a man become strong, healthy and gay. He begins to take
care of his health.
«Good health is better than wealth», you know. It’s true, I should say.
In our school we have a nice gym. Sports and games are popular among
pupils. A lot of children train at special sport schools.
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