In Highschools? 

1. Should it be required?

2. What changes have started to take place?

"The activities for the New PE are ones that all kids can participate in, not just the varsity athletes. Besides fitness, these activities include kick-boxing, rock-wall climbing, mountain biking, and downhill skiing. Some gyms even resemble circuses, where students juggle, ride unicycles, and jump rope.

Not only do the classes have a new attitude, but the gyms also reflect the changes. Today's visitor might mistake a high school gym for the local health club. The room is filled with free weights and machines, with students pursuing, individual activities.

Chris Moser, 15, is a student at Standley Lake High School in Westminster, Colorado. He's on the varsity baseball team, but he also takes a fitness class. "I know I'm getting stronger," he says about the class, "and I have more energy for baseball" (Gard).

Some High Schools are starting to incorperate a wide variety of different sports that almost everyone can participate in, whether they are athletic or not. The important thing to look at here, is that many schools are trying to limit the amount of people that grow obese because of the limited time or effort that they use to excercise. Many schools are requiring the following activities to be a part in the student's daily PE classes.

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Aerobic activities include:

• Jogging
• Dancing
• Bicycling
• Swimming

Weight training activities include:  

• Free weights
• Machines

Team and doubles sports include:

• Baseball
• Soccer
• Racquetball
• Tennis

Individual sports include:  

• Rock climbing
• Archery
• Kickboxing
• Self-defense

Excersise is very important at this age, because most adolescents are forming living habits that will carry on and follow them throughout their lives. If a child, for example, doesn't excersise and eats junk food and fast food almost everyday, that child will have a harder time changing his or her diet in later years. If that child eats very many calories per day, then when the child grows older that same amount will enter their bodies, if not more. Thus, the child will continue to gain weight and will become obese and unhealthy. Excersise is one of the greatest ways to lose weight, because it is not only natural, but also has long term results. If someone excersises and starts to lose weight it will be easier and less of a hassle to excersise more in the future, therefore the weight can be kept off. 

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