Ethnic fitness exercise is divided into unarmed fitness exercise and what fitness exercise

Ethnic gymnastics is divided into unarmed gymnastics and light equipment gymnastics.

Ethnic fitness exercise is by the nationalities in daily life, labor, fitness in the customary movements compiled into the fitness exercise. Due to the different ethnic groups have different geographical distribution and cultural characteristics, movement and rhythm of some soothing and gentle and some majestic, with a strong local flavor and national character. The Eighth National Minority Games is also the first time this form of gymnastics included in the competition performance program.

From the number of participants, unarmed aerobics has 22 teams of more than 200 athletes from different provinces of the country competed in this program. From the competition, the movement choreography of the participating teams can be roughly divided into two parts. Part of the gymnastics as the main body. One part is based on ethnic dance as the main body.

Ethnic fitness gymnastics is a new type of sports and fitness program produced in the process of new social and historical development, it is widely loved ethnic dance and fitness gymnastics movements into one, not only inherited the excellent elements of ethnic dance, to develop the modernity of the ethnic dance, but also to make the national culture and sports and fitness into one.

It not only combines the choreography principles, means and movement routes of modern sports aerobics, but also retains the essence of ethnic dance elements and ethnic materials.

It is different from general aerobics, which is rooted in ethnicity. In addition to the general characteristics of aerobics, it is required to create on the basis of ethnic characteristics in terms of clothing, movement choreography, music selection, etc.

It is also different from ethnic dance, because the main purpose of ethnic aerobics is to let the general public to achieve the effect of physical fitness and to carry out the inheritance and protection of the traditional culture of ethnic minorities, rather than purely artistic. Inheritance protection, rather than a purely artistic form of expression, so the national fitness gymnastics belongs to the category of traditional ethnic sports, is one of the derivatives of China's traditional sports of ethnic minorities.