Gym Class: Why Kids' Exercise Matters Less Than We Think
Gym Class: Why Kids' Exercise Matters Less Than We Think
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Thoughts?
Gym Class: Why Kids' Exercise Matters Less Than We Think
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Thoughts?
Half the day should be PE, with the rest made up of woodwork, metalwork, art and outdoor ed.
/SPness
Half the day should be PE, with the rest made up of woodwork, metalwork, art and outdoor ed.
/SPness
Half the day should be PE, with the rest made up of woodwork, metalwork, art and outdoor ed.
/SPness
If they did that, I really hope school would be optional...
Seriously, I'd rather sit in a school library all day trying to read than do any of that stuff, if I had a choice.
If they did that, I really hope school would be optional...
Seriously, I'd rather sit in a school library all day trying to read than do any of that stuff, if I had a choice.
Half the day should be PE, with the rest made up of woodwork, metalwork, art and outdoor ed.
/SPness
Gym Class: Why Kids' Exercise Matters Less Than We Think
Gym Class: Why Kids' Exercise Matters Less Than We Think
(more at link)
Thoughts?
Here's the problem I find with this article. In the article it states that children who had more exercise time at school were more tired and tended to move less at home, while those who had less exercise at school tended to exercise more at home. I know that at my house, my little brother is almost addicted to the computer. So he doesn't exercise much at home and, unfortunately, my mother doesn't enforce him to go outside and play. Nowadays, we have the distraction of video games, a million channels to choose from on TV, and the computer. To children such as my brother, these are the first pick over going outside to play baseball or something. Therefore, it is better for kids to exercise in school because there aren't such electronic distractions that encourage laziness in PE classes and recess.
But her data does suggest that kids have what she calls an activity "set point" - an energy-expenditure baseline to which, over time, they will naturally revert. Despite the fact that they got roughly the same amount of exercise, the kids in the study varied widely in their metabolic health (measured through cholesterol and triglyceride levels) - factors that contribute to later risks of heart disease - but those differences appeared to owe largely to their diets, not their physical-activity levels.