Publisher's Synopsis
INTRODUCTION
As human beings evolved culturally, emotionally and socially, physical activity also
evolved. As the society became more and more complex leading towards
the modern age, physical activities came to be -recognized as an organized and
supervised form of education, and were termed as physical education.- The word
physical education is derived from two separate words -physical and education. The term
physical is related to body. It may be related to anyone or all of the bodily
characteristics. Physical strength, physical endurance, physical fitness, physical appearance
or physical health covers the word physical. The word education means systematic
instruction or training for life or for some particular task. A combined meaning of
these two words would be that systematic instruction or training which relates physical
activity or program of activities, necessary for development and maintenance of
human body, development of physical powers or cultivation of physical skills,
