Research On Fitness Team Development Situation In Beijing Yuyuantan Park

Since The Essentials of Nationwide Physical Fitness Plan was promulgated and implemented in 1995, mass sports have been flourishing. Meanwhile, the nationwide physical fitness campaign has also gained great popularity, which has already been upgraded to a national strategy. In other words, daily exercise has become a vital part of people’s lives. As the air pollution is becoming severer, along with the intensification of C hina ’s aging population and the lack of exercising grounds is pretty obvious, which led to the emergence of do exercise in the park. Driven by people’s desires of having a strong body, living close to nice parks, making more friends, and the increase of free time after people’s retirement, the Fitness Team has been fully developed and now plays an important role in grass-roots exercise organizations. Thus, it is quite necessary and essential to study the fitness teams which appeared in parks. However, the current study towards this aspect still needs to be improved, both in its depth and width.This essay took the Beijing Yuyuantan Park fitness teams as the study object and forty five fitness teams in this park as samples. This essay discussed park fitness teams’ basic information and development through documents and also studied the teams’ status quo and problems through interviews with the team leaders and some team members. By studying the formation time of the teams, their activities, organizational forms as well as their team projects, Use logical analysis to known overall situation and three representative teams were selected as the samples of case study.The findings are as follows: the teams were formed between 1993 and 2013, most of which appeared before and after SARS and 2008 Beijing O lympic Games. The main formation mode is spontaneous formation. The number of team members is mainly less than forty, the teams usually exercise in the morning and they usually exercise by aerobics dance and taichi. There are more female members than male members. Only the administrative department for support teams have social sports instructor. In the team key figure who is the creator or motor skills higher personnel. There are three sources of team funds: government shall give awards to excellent fitness; performance bonuses; membership fees. Fitness enthusiasts’ wishes to have a strong body, make more friends and live close to nice parks and also the increase of free time after people’s retirement have pushed the formation of fitness teams. The biggest obstacle towards the development of fitness teams is the limited availability of grounds. And also lack of professional guidance, multiple support poor in Park Management, Sub-district Office and other aspects of the sports sector.Suggestions are as follows: the relevant departments should expand service scope; the administrative department and the athletic department of parks should be more connected; senior sports talents should make some contributions; improving relevant policies and mechanism.