Gymnastics while practicing physical exercise came from Prehistory. It was systematized in the beginnings of the Contemporary Age.

His reappearance in the Modern Era had been, as at first, bound up with art. The gymnastic form that arrived in Europe began with the trampoline. At the time of the Renaissance the main artists worshiped the human body and its forms. Thus, the practice of gymnastics in schools became constant, and each day more the modality gained space among men.

However, its official emergence only came about in 1811, when Professor Friedrich Ludwig John founded in Berlin, Germany, the first club dedicated solely to the practice of gymnastics.

In addition, this educator still created specific rules, different devices and a system of physical exercises called "The Art Gimnic", still today considered matrix in practiced artistic gymnastics.

The swimsuit at the beginning of swimming was different from today, and people did not wear swimming goggles. So from the beginning until today both swimming technique and equipment have changed.

The athletes who stand out in swimming today are Bruno Fratu, Cesar Cielo, Daniel Orzechowski and Daynara de Paula. Swimming was in the beginning a means of survival of the human being, who in primitive times needed to escape from larger animals or hunt their feeding in rivers or lakes.Today this sport can be seen as a recreation method and a sport. In addition, to the technique of swimming can be used to save people from drowning.Firstly, swimming is one of the sports used in the Olympics, but beyond this competition swimming is a sport used in many other events, such as Pan-Pacific, Commonwealth Games, European Water Sports Championships, Asian Games, South American and Caribbean Games, among others.