What is your experience with gym class?

[tobi!]

In Gym, I actually tried. Therefore, everyone labeled me a try-hard.

I had to take two years with obnoxious idiots who lowered my grade because they refused to work with me. In Gym, I'm not graded on how well I do myself, it's how well teamwork is in the class and it was crap.

 

[CR33P]

it's alright, although my pe teacher usually makes us wait and do nothing for 20 minutes while he "takes roll."
in my first period class i saw him come in and just chat about basketball games as if he didn't have a class to tend to.

 

[gardenprince]

I hated gym because I was unfit and I hate sweating. My least favorite activity was probably track ;w;

 

[Ami]

Ew gym D: well it depends on what we were doing. But our teacher loved making us run around for the whole hour.
If it was gymnastics or sports where we actually had to play something, it was pretty fun!

 

[tokkio]

I really despise gym class because
1. I honestly suck at sports. I'm literally the last place at any sport even though I give my best efforts.
2. I also suck at dancing (and we have/had 2 quarters fully dedicated to dancing
and 3. My PE teacher is the worst person ever .. honestly so bad beyond words.

but I like it when we're at softball though

 

[Yoshisaur]

I got a D in gym class. I hated it more than ANYTHING. I had too much anxiety to be comfortable in gym clothes so a lot of times I didn't even change. I'm so bad at sports too xD
I liked when we did weight lifting in gym class though. I could pretend I was doing it and not be doing anything.

 

[fup10k]

I was the only one who didn't get an A in gym class
I did NOT like undressing in front of people or being forced to do so, and I did NOT like sweating

hooooorrriblleeeeee

 

[Lady Timpani]

I hate gym, but I only had to take two years (freshman and sophomore) to get my diploma, so that was nice. They also made it really easy for you because they just graded you on trying and looking like you were doing something-- my freshman teacher literally told us that as long as we looked like we were running (swinging our arms and getting our legs up) during warmup, he'd give us an A, even if we weren't moving faster than people who were walking lol.

I did actually try in gym (for the most part), but it was nice to know that they weren't expecting us to be super athletic or anything.

 

[ShinyYoshi]

I only had to be in gym class for my two years in junior high and they were the worst two years ever. Our gym teachers were usually extremely rude/fat old ladies. The head gym teacher had a window in her office that looked into our girls locker room/changing room and it didn't have blinds or anything so that was extremely creepy and gross.

We had to get groups together and make up dances, which was hell. The whole class was the worst part of my day. High school sports saved me from that retched gym class in high school.

 

[DoctorGallifrey]

I actually liked gym. It was something nice to do everyday instead of sitting down in class for 45 minutes to an hour. It kept me relatively fit for my age, didn't have any abs or nothing, but I was in shape.

Honestly, my favorite activities were dodgeball(although it was removed in high school) and running. Dodgeball because it was just fun in general. Running was enjoyable because we had to run 12 laps around the gymnasium (which would equate to 1 mile) and I was always finished within 10-15 minutes.

 

[lazuli]

the fact that they expect the biggest and the smallest kids to be able to do the same thing well is bothersome

 

[infinikitten]

Good friggin lord I hated gym class.

1) I hate getting all sweaty. I mean I move around and stuff but I ain't about to be running for no reason
2) They expected us all to sweat all over our school clothes. It was a looong time before the concept of "gym clothes" was introduced in our district
3) When we finally did get the option of changing into gym clothes, our locker rooms had showers, but we weren't allowed to use them, so you'd still be all gross when you changed back at the end of the period theoretically speaking
4) If we could shower? I sure as hell wouldn't do it in that locker room. We had a MALE GYM TEACHER who had an office smack in the middle of the girls' locker room and it was windowed and... somehow nobody saw a problem with this???
5) The kids who are super competitive about sports ruin it for everyone else tbh. I might have considered participating more often if people didn't have conniptions at the idea of losing at dodgeball.

I mean, I could go on forever, which is kinda sad since I've been out of school for a while now lol. But my hatred of gym class is enduring. It stands the test of time I remember whenever teams were being picked, I'd just hang back in the locker rooms and listen for it to be done, then saunter out sometime later and chill on the benches and read a book or something. Few years of that, but one year I had one of the football coaches for my gym teacher and he was a hard-ass about absolutely everything. I was dating someone on the fb team at the time and he would get up in my face and berate me whenever the guy missed practice or performed poorly like it was somehow my fault. I'd be mad about how ridiculous that was, but it still got me out of having to run around and get dirty, so... B)

 

[pocky]

I hated gym when I was in high school. Undressing in front of so many people was awkward and I always got picked last because I suck at sports/put 0 effort.

We also didnt have enough time/werent allowed to take showers afterwards (which tbh I dont think I would have been able to get naked in front of so many people) so Id have to go to my next class all sweaty and smelly

 

[epona]

gym class was fine for me i don't know why everyone hated it so much, we were usually just allowed to go to the school gym and use the treadmills/bikes etc. so it was fine, the only time i hated gym was if we had to do the bleep test or something but that was like once every 3 years lol
the only annoying thing about it was if it was only a single class and you had to go through the effort of getting changed and showering and stuff for like a 15 minute period of exercising lol it was dumb
but yeah basically they just let us off into the gym or let us jog around the campus which took like 20 minutes so my friends and i always just walked it, it was basically a free period for us lol

 

[Cam1]

I took Gym online so I could go to an art school for three class periods a day. My favorite activity was probably the activity log, haha. The rest was reading and taking quizzes.

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I'm the exact opposite. I honestly hated running, especially the pacer. At least you can go at your own pace while running on the track, but you have to go faster with the pacer. I only got 38 on the pacer. I could keep running, but I wasn't fast enough to beat the timer with my short legs, so I had to sit out.

THE PACER WAS MY FAVORITE IN ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL OMG. I always got the highest score in the class

 

[Mega_Cabbage]

I took Gym online so I could go to an art school for three class periods a day. My favorite activity was probably the activity log, haha. The rest was reading and taking quizzes.

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THE PACER WAS MY FAVORITE IN ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL OMG. I always got the highest score in the class

Haha! I'm always the first girl to finish running the track, but the pacer screws with me. Teach me your ways!

 

[CaptainCrunch]

Usually gym class is pretty fun! Especially when you have friends in it
My favorite games/activities were usually tennis, soccer and floor hockey, but I absolutely hate kickball ;;;

 

[lazuli]

aw man the pacer was hell
i was good for like the first 10 but by like 15 i wanted to drop

in 6th grade i had p.e. but early on in the schoolyear, my teacher was like EY you wanna be a vip?? and i said sure w/o knowing what it was
turned out it was helping in the attendance office instead of attending class
i was supposed to only help for one six weeks (our district divides our school years into 6 periods of 6 weeks) but i stayed the whole year
i didnt have pe until this year which would make like 4 years of not doing ANY physical activity

good times

 

[Emmy]

My PE class in high school was a cardio endurance class. If you did not sweat in this class, you were not doing it right. Some mornings we ran half a mile and other mornings we performed aerobics. You wore a special heart monitor that tracked your heart rate. The requirement was 140 to 200.

Some days we would have cardio circuit training, some days we would have aerobics with steps (blue blocks), some days we would have guests that would do turbo or combat, sometimes yoga, sometimes Pilates, and two days a week were focused on weights.

The thing I hated the most were stairs. We would go to the field where we ran up and down all of the stairs in the seating areas. I got out of it by running laps instead of potentially falling.

My favorite two were push ups and buttocks aerobics (THIS IS NOT EASY).

On some days, we would have a push ups based work out. We would start at 3 push ups within a minute. This went up by 3 every minute. We would get to 30, and then work back down.

As for buttock aerobics? We performed a vast amount of fast-paced movements with our legs and butt muscles. If you've never used the muscles in your buttocks, then prepare to be sore for the rest of the day.

 

[Kitsuragi]

i disliked gym class, i just had it last trimester, but good lord everyone elses gym class seems like hell. glad i dont have to take it again *_*
the teacher i had for gym was pretty nice though, and so understanding. i have asthma, so i couldn't run very long/fast without running out of breath pretty easy. he let it slide, or let me go get my inhaler. it's a great thing to have friends in gym class, especially friends who love the class so then you can get inspired to do as good as them, or even get a bit competitive with them. it's also fun playing games with smaller teams, like basketball.
one of the greatest things about teams is that the teacher picked them, so there wasnt any discrimination with "ew i dont want that person bcz theyre ugly lol" it was all fair game. it was the best when a hardcore jock was picked to be on your team.
anyway, the class isn't too bad IMO, i just didnt like it because of all the running. we did it every day, too. it made me sore most of the time.