Physical "Education"

[MPRTwice]

I genuinely HATED P.E. in school and it wasn't just because I was "lazy" really. Most of time there's not much benefit unless you have one of those insane teachers that forces you to do everything.
In terms of needing a change in lifestyle and habits, it's really never too late. much of my late teens and early 20s got cut short bc I was dealing with severe mental health issues. Nowadays, I've gotten to a better point mentally and it feels much better after a long time of feeling like I was in a mental state of h*ll. There's nothing wrong with going at your own pace.

It feels so good to train when angry; I get angry often but use it properly instead of road rage, etc.

Many students told me they had no use for road rage once they realized how much better it is to hit a bag.

If you hit a person, you go to jail and face a lawsuit (just ask my attacker who is imprisoned after his assault; I did not fight back and "there is over a hundred thousand dollars in court for every punch your assailant lands without you getting revenge", but if you hit a bag, you get offers to get paid enough to see a bugatti shiron as a cheap toy. You can kill bags; that is not a crime and is actually impressive to many.

Another thing about bags; they hit back, and it is called recoil. Even having Eddie Hall swing himself down on a rope into me (which would be a funny sight) is nothing compared to a six hundred pound bag swinging down: I felt nothing from the latter as I charged myself into it unguarded, thus a Boxer far heavier than I am on adrenaline did not feel like anything but a kid fluffing me with a pillow when he accidentally punched me in the jaw; an unguarded blow did _nothing_.

Second thing about bags; why bother fighting people weighing four hundred and fifty pounds in powerlifting if six hundred pound bags fly away like nothing when you lightly tap them? Hard to be scared of a heavier guy at eight feet tall in MMA at a UFC feed-in when you are used to knocking around bags effortlessly; I won easily holding back in my less experienced days; you never need to fight like that once you know.

 

[Kwyjor]

I've found a use for a lot of things I learned in high school, but I have yet to figure out why we spent so much time learning the rules of European handball, time and time again.

Phys Ed did a lot to ruin team sports for me forever. It grew more tolerable when I was suddenly taller than everyone else. There's a Jerry Seinfeld quote that resonates with me:

Any day you had gym class was a weird school day. It started off normal. You had English, Social Studies, Geometry, then suddenly you're in Lord of the Flies for 40 minutes. You're hanging from a rope, you have hardly any clothes on, teachers are yelling at you, kids are throwing dodge balls at you and snapping towels - you're trying to survive. And then it's Science, Language, and History. Now that is a weird day.

It was some years afterwards that I discovered the pure vacuity of group aerobics classes. There are no grand champions of something like Step aerobics; no famous Step celebrities are out there pushing you to buy their Step equipment so you can get better at Step. You go there, and you exercise. You do what you can. You can scale up certain moves up, bit by bit. Even if you do, you will probably look ridiculous. But everyone in the class looks ridiculous, so what does it matter?

That doesn't mean it's going to be easy. If you push yourself, you will sweat; I probably got more exercise in group aerobics than I ever did standing around getting graded on layup drills.

sure, it was good to learn how to do the activities, but we were never taught why we do the activities

Ahh, but why do we do anything? Everything we know and love will one day be dust. Some day all too soon the last person who knows my name will die. Why learn hand-to-hand combat when the most skilled practitioner will die just as easily to many casual accidents, even putting aside violent deaths? To do group aerobics is to embrace the absurd. It works for me.

 

[Jayro]

As someone who's always been suffering from chronic fatigue, even as a kid... P.E. nearly fucking killed me. I'm so glad I didn't need to take it my Junior or Senior years.

 

[MPRTwice]

As someone who's always been suffering from chronic fatigue, even as a kid... P.E. nearly fucking killed me. I'm so glad I didn't need to take it my Junior or Senior years.

"Boxer's Burnouts", as I called them, can be annoying. I had three times in the past where I needed eighteen hours of sleep a day; the last one concluded in twenty twenty thanks to time off from Covid.

 

[Francie]

Ahh, but why do we do anything?

need to workout more so I don't feel pain in my neck, back, shoulders, and knees

 

[MPRTwice]

need to workout more so I don't feel pain in my neck, back, shoulders, and knees

Good news: it works for back spasms. I used to have extremely painful ones every time I tried something new...it has been years now since the last one I had, and my back flexes in many ways now under pressure and is much stronger yet much more limber than ever before.