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Alex Gabriel // P.E. lessons ruined how I felt about myself

"P.E. lessons made me feel that my body belonged to someone else." "I don’t believe [fitness] is really the motivation. If it were, why object, as Cameron does, to ‘Indian dance, or whatever’?" Obviously it's worse if you're out as gay, as Alex was, but this all sounds a bit familiar. PE certainly put me off exercise, and were it not for dancing restoring my confidence, I'd probably be in a much worse physical state.
(tags: health fitness sport school education physical-education PE)

Comments

[pete stevens (from livejournal.com)]

This is what's so frustrating. Running clubs do mixed ability interval training all the time. I do a serious running training session with my nephews (aged 5 and 6) when I go and meet them and they love it. It's called the rock game, the rules are,

Start at the finish line. Race outwards for about 20-30s until someone calls stop.
Place your rock on the ground here.
Wait 30s then race back to the finish line clapping the winner.
Jog back to your rock, the winner of the race picks theirs up and moves it five paces further away from the finish line.
Repeat 20 times.

The overall winner is the person who wins the most races.

You get an approximately fair spread of wins, in order to win more than 1/n of the races you have to run really very hard. Once you've done the first five everyone is competitive, by race 15 people are dying from exhaustion.