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Gym,
a shortened form of gymnasium, refers to facilities intended
for indoor sports or exercise. Gyms are sometimes referred
to as health clubs.Today the term gymnasium is used in
the sense of a sports facility.
Gyms today are multi-use facilities, offering a range
of sporting and physical activities, alongside such things
as massages, and other things usually attributed to a
health spa.
Gymnasium is also the german
term for high school, or secondary school.
In a health club, also called fitness studio or exercise
center, one finds various equipment for the purpose of
physical exercise.
Often there are also courses for aerobics or the like
offered. It is not unusual that a sauna or wellness areas
are present.
For a fee the visitor can
use the equipment, the service and courses of the health
club.Health clubs offer a collective
and often entertaining and informal form of working out
and/or bodybuilding beyond the structure of the classic
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Wellness is generally used
to mean a healthy balance of the mind-body and spirit that results
in an overall feeling of well-being. It has been used in the context
of alternative medicine since Halbert Dunn began using the phrase
high level wellness in the fifties, based on a series of lectures
at a Unitarian Universalist Church in Arlington, Virginia, in
the United States. The modern concept of wellness did not, however,
become popular until the 1970's.
The term has been defined
by the Singapore-based National Wellness Association as an active
process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a more
successful existence. This is consistent with a shift in focus
away from illness in viewing human health, typical of contexts
where the term wellness is used. In other words, wellness is a
view of health that emphasizes the state of the entire being and
its ongoing development.
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