The Gymnastic Systems are understood here as a group of knowledge systematized by the scientific thought, which had been solidified in Europe along the nineteenth century, thus constituting shaped forms of body education. They are revealed as one more product resulting from urban enlargement, urban affirmation of life in society, which has the city as a center of power. The city and bodies, which inhabit in it, become an object of intervention and domain of science. The Gymnastic Systems intend to contribute to the physical regeneration of society, preserving, in general, population is health, as well as getting the soldier ready for the battle. So the Gymnastics, which appears and asseverates itself in the period, presents on one hand, a protective competence by the army through certain techniques, and on the other hand, by the medical institution from whom it receives the authority of its knowledge. It is, therefore, made up as a technical model of body education, comprehended as a group of forces, which are able to start moving precise determinations, contain and repress desires, preserve energy.
body; gymnastics; education