Ugh, I get that. I’m only just now building a workout routine, almost a decade after school. And I’m only just now learning what a rep even is, and why you should stretch before and after workouts. What a waste of time and energy PE was.
Weight lifting is not something that most health experts recommend for children. We had a weight room in my middle school but you really need close supervision for good form and to reduce injuries. That level of individual coaching is hard to get at public schools.
Even that kind of knowledge isn’t something broached in the classes I took. I’m not even sure if the word ‘reps’ is more associated with lifting specifically or exercise in general!
It’s associated with strength training. You could call bodyweight exercise reps, but usually we don’t do sets and reps with things like pushups, situps, unweighted squats and chin ups. They’re usually considered endurance exercises unless you’re really heavy.
Mostly the kids dragged each other through hammer swings on a wheel board while I listened to the teacher while they talked about their miscarriage and cried
It’s objectively true. PE class only makes people disgusted by sport. All PE teachers are terrible, do nothing while students run aimlessly on a track with no training at all, turn a blind eye to rampant bullying (if they aren’t directly complicit), then give grades seemingly at random. It took me 8 years after leaving high school to figure out that I actually enjoy sports if I have proper training and the people around me aren’t all bullies.
I figured it not having anything to do with employment and being an expensive hobby that requires groups of people to sync their free time was why adults don’t do sports as a hobby. People can barely make D&D sessions work and that’s just sitting around a table.
Yeah, but that’s not really what we’re talking about. How many sports in school gym classes are Solo sports? How many people going to the YMCA to go swimming or jogging in the park consider that a “sport”?
PE is fucking useless and is the number 1 reason most people don’t do any sport at all after high school.
Ugh, I get that. I’m only just now building a workout routine, almost a decade after school. And I’m only just now learning what a rep even is, and why you should stretch before and after workouts. What a waste of time and energy PE was.
Weight lifting is not something that most health experts recommend for children. We had a weight room in my middle school but you really need close supervision for good form and to reduce injuries. That level of individual coaching is hard to get at public schools.
That’s why they focus on cardio and team sports.
Even that kind of knowledge isn’t something broached in the classes I took. I’m not even sure if the word ‘reps’ is more associated with lifting specifically or exercise in general!
It’s associated with strength training. You could call bodyweight exercise reps, but usually we don’t do sets and reps with things like pushups, situps, unweighted squats and chin ups. They’re usually considered endurance exercises unless you’re really heavy.
Keep telling yourself that lol.
Mostly the kids dragged each other through hammer swings on a wheel board while I listened to the teacher while they talked about their miscarriage and cried
It’s objectively true. PE class only makes people disgusted by sport. All PE teachers are terrible, do nothing while students run aimlessly on a track with no training at all, turn a blind eye to rampant bullying (if they aren’t directly complicit), then give grades seemingly at random. It took me 8 years after leaving high school to figure out that I actually enjoy sports if I have proper training and the people around me aren’t all bullies.
Me too
I figured it not having anything to do with employment and being an expensive hobby that requires groups of people to sync their free time was why adults don’t do sports as a hobby. People can barely make D&D sessions work and that’s just sitting around a table.
A lot of sports can be done solo. Running, swimming, bouldering…
Yeah, but that’s not really what we’re talking about. How many sports in school gym classes are Solo sports? How many people going to the YMCA to go swimming or jogging in the park consider that a “sport”?