THE ESSENCE AND BASIC CONCEPTS OF THE RECREATION PROCESS IN THE DAILY LIFE OF CITIZENS

Abstract

The significance of the recreation phenomenon has increased greatly in today's fast and competitive world, in the conglomerate of society and situations as a whole, people devote many hours to academic learning, being they theoretical or practical ones, and the activity of improving knowledge. To this is added the current way of daily life in which people work between 10 and 12 hours daily, even on weekends, office work, sedentary life as well as diminishing direct human-to-human communication and isolation in the online environment - internet, the result being the diminished time and the desire to practice the sport for recreation.
Recreation occupies an important place in the structure of physical culture, as recreational elements are used in sports, physical education and physical rehabilitation.
In the current situation, the prevention of diseases and the consolidation of the population's health goes from medical to social. There is a constant tendency to increase the social role of the recreational phenomenon through sport in order to strengthen and maintain health as well as a more physically active life of people. This is an integral part of the development strategy of the modern society, which aims to humanize and democratize its potential.