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Bangkok 2005

Gymnastics
List of Disciplines
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Gymnastics

Gymnastics

Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility and coordination.

Artistic Gymnastics typically involves the women's events of uneven parallel bars, balance beam, floor exercise, and vault.

Men's events include high bar, parallel bars, still rings, floor exercise, vault, and pommel horse. Other forms of gymnastics are rhythmic gymnastics, various trampolining sports, and aerobic and acrobatic gymnastics.

Gymnastics was first incorporated into the Asian Games in 1978.

List of disciplines

  • Aerobic

Aerobic means "with oxygen", and refers to the use of oxygen in the body's metabolic or process. Aerobics is a repetitive, rhythmical exercise involving large muscle groups. Aerobic exercise increases the body's demands for oxygen and adds to the workload of the heart and lungs, strengthening the cardiovascular system and helping to develop endurance.

Many types of exercise are aerobic, and by definition are performed at moderate levels of intensity for extended periods of time. Aerobics was first incorporated into the Asian Indoor Games in 2005.

List of events

  • mixed

    1. PAIR

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