It is guidance of gymnastics along with the music.
It is the exercise that continues more than 80 years in Japan.
Radio calisthenics is a movement for the purpose of promotion and retention of health and physical strength improvement of the people.
The foundation of Japanese Radio calisthenics is a program that was broadcast as an advertisement of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in 1925 in the United States.
After that, it has spread all over Japan.
Radio calisthenics is broadcast along with the light music of the piano.
This exercise is possible to move a well-balanced whole body, it is the ideal program very much.
In recent years, the usefulness of Radio calisthenics has attracted attention again.
It will also effective for problems of people who live the modern.
The problem is,lack of exercise, obesity, physical fitness decline, lifestyle-related diseases...
This is the Radio calisthenics.
All Japanese know Radio calisthenics.
Because, Japanese children to participate in the meeting of Radio calisthenics.
The meeting is done in the summer vacation period.
Early morning, the children gathered in the park, they dance the Radio calisthenics.
Exercise is over, they press the stamp on the card that they bring.
This card is proof that they had a healthy life regularly during the summer vacation.
Card filled with stamp is their pride.
Because of this event, all Japanese, including the adult, can do the Radio calisthenics.
Currently, Radio calisthenics is broadcast four times a day.
Not only children.
There are many company that all employees do the Radio calisthenics before the work begins.
In recent years, Radio calisthenics incorporating the folk instruments and dialects around the country were made.
They are sold as a CD.
Radio calisthenics will continue to be loved by the Japanese in the future.
