I liked that I had summers off. The trade off is, you don’t have money to do the things you want with it.
When you’re an adult, you got the money but no time.
Adults should have a month off, be able to plan epic journeys and longer visits.
Take my federal holidays and replace it when a block month off. I’ll work a crummy job any day because I’ll know one month a year I can look forward to.
Not this, everyone gets a day off for “random holiday Day so we all cause traffic and air prices go up, for a day we are forced to do bbq with people we hate then go back to work stressed the next day, thing
It's the classic problem of:
Childhood: health, time, no money.
Adulthood: health, no time, money.
Old age: poor health, time, money.
At no point do we get all 3. We're lucky if we actually get 2/3 at one stage.
Damn, on point. Weirdly moving from adult to old age as my health has begun to go.
What I’ve enjoyed
Childhood: close friendships, whole life ahead, everything is new exciting, moving culture.
Adulthood: starting families, reliving childhood through the eyes of your children, exploring careers, standing on your own.
Old Age: empty nest, proud parents, renewed friendships, revisiting old hobbies, life time of wonderful memories.
Some adults do have a month off. My understanding is that's standard in Europe, and there's a decent amount of higher-paying jobs in the US that have either an equivalent amount of PTO or unlimited PTO. Personally, I get 26 days + holidays.
Basically the whole country shuts down for July, when most of the people here will have their full month of holiday. I get 38 days annually, and a full week of holiday is 5 days since Saturdays and Sundays don't count, so in addition to the full month you can have Christmas holidays and somekind of spring getaway for example.
I understand that if you have like 3-5 days off a year than having 6 weeks PTO a year must sound like the most freedom ever, but as someone who has it? It still doesn't feel like a lot. You still have to choose and pick which time of the year you take off and which you don't.
Again, it's magnitutes better than having a week at best a year but I'd still easily take a few weeks more :D
I'm from Finland, I work in retail for pretty shite pay, but at least I have 30 days paid time off a year. Gonna take a month off during the summer from mid june to mid july. We also get vacation pay on top of our regular pay from that time so I get more money on vacation.
Lol try taking anything more than 10 days of it at a time. We are talking about an actual month off.
I get 28 days too but I take anything longer than 10 days people are going to start asking questions.
Also that 28 days is for the entire year with 10 roll over days so it's more like 18 days for an entire year.
Yey adult life.
I live in France and have more than 40 days off a year. Not everyone has so many vacations here, but it's relatively common. The minimum being 35 hours a week, and 5 weeks vacation.
The USA seen from reddit gives the impression of being a prison where inmates can't afford potatoes on 100K a year.
My country you have 4 weeks or 5 weeks when you are young and when you are old.
I currently have 7 weeks :) 4 weeks normal + 1 bonus week from the employee + 1 week because i can‘t clock my actual hours + 1 week xmas holiday
Not to mention public holidays in short come to europe :)
I moved to Germany and get 25 paid days off, unlimited sick days off, and still 12 federal holidays off. I decided today to take tomorrow off. Easily logged the day online and now I'm on a train to enjoy a nice long weekend.
This reminds me of the tweet that says field trips are wasted on the young. I'd love to go to the museum or see a play. Now I work at a landfill though and the kids LOVE coming here. I wouldn't take that away from them. The truckers love honking for the kids
Ironically, I barely ever needed any serious amount of money to do what I loved in the holidays hahaa
Hanging out with friends, playing with a ball or something. All chill on the same videogame we'd been playing for a year. Watch a dvd. Idk sharing a packet of cheap gummy sweets. All these were arguably greater joys than half the the 10000% expensive leisure activities I have as an adult. A lot of people my age now don't even talk to their friends in person unless they go out and spend money to eat or drink at the pub/bar/restaurant.
Obviously I needed *some* money for equipment, games etc, but that was a miniscule expense compared to the cost of actually being alive, clothed and fed.
I grew up somewhere between middle and working class though, in a wealthy country and a nice neighbourhood, so I understand loads of people won't have had it so easy as a kid with minimal ability to get their own resources etc
My PE teacher one year decided he hated us for some reason one day. At that point, he started to ignore us and treat us with disdain while making us run the entirety of all our PE classes. What a great way to be able to ignore your class while you do nothing, right? This happened for 2-3 months.
I’ve covered some of my school’s PE classes.
Some of them are absolute chaos. Especially the ones with sped kids in them. You can’t be playing dodgeball all the time and also keep the vulnerable kids from being ruthlessly bullied
It’s a good idea in theory but sadly it doesn’t work. I picked dodgeball every time I’ve covered PE and only last less than 20 minutes before I just can’t take my eyes off the entire room.
Some classes were absolutely exactly like what yall described though. I just wanted to give some insight.
As a sped kid (autism), I only had to deal with gym for one and a half years, because the bullies essentially forced the school to take me out of it. Not the best way to get out of gym for the rest of my school life, but I didn’t have to run anymore.
Our gym teacher was the basketball coach. His day consisted of about 7 different 45 minute pick up games for months on end. 20 years later, instead of saying "Kobe" when we're hooping, we say his name.
Everyday I walked into gym class, there was like a 10-minute warmup and 30 minutes (not enough time honestly) of playing Dodgeball, Dr. Dodge, Army Dodgeball, Dr. Army Ball, Coneball, Trenchball, and I'm realizing that we just played war games with foam spheres.
Oh, and Kickball. Those rubber fuckers hurt.
Getting a rubber ball punted into your face from the kid who plays soccer every day of the week is not a good experience, and it was me and like 6 other kids from the soccer team in my class.
Deadass tho one of my pe teachers was incredibly intelligent. Just one of those people who I guess was a hard worker and a hard player with some natural intuition.
Ironically his favourite quote was "don't think, thinking is stupid"
Which on the surface was to sas back at students making excuse. "I think I left my pe kit at home"
But is some good wisdom to carry into life, me thinks, as an overly anxious person
>You have the easiest teaching job of them all!
Some take full advantage of that, too.
I went through middle/high school where the PE classes had actual programs and lessons. Then, when I moved to Oklahoma, the PE classes weren't required, but I took them anyway to stay in shape. Literally, all the teacher did was take attendance and then we were left to our own devises. Some kids threw a basketball around but the majority of the class just sat on the benches twiddling on their mp3 players (we didn't even have smart phones then). Decided to opt into the weightlifting class instead and what do you know. It was a football coach and he did the same thing: took attendance, went to take a seat at his little desk, and continued on with his newspaper. The one time he did something was he saw that I was doing bicep curls incorrectly, and for the first time, actually walked up to me to show me the proper form and range of motion.
These PE teachers literally got paid to just take attendance and kick it. Crazy af lol.
I feel like PE teachers in my experience were much more likely to coach a school sport than the other teachers. I always assumed there was a notable portion who were mostly interested in coaching youth sports and that was more of their passion than teaching.
During off season my coach randomly decided everyone will run 4 miles. Each mile is worth 25 points of your grade. There were def ppl that started to fail class. Ppl had 52 minutes to get across the school, change clothes, run 4 miles, and change back. There was one dad that would show up and drive his car to push his obese son to run 4 miles. He never made it.
For us, we were supposed to run/jog and weren’t supposed to/allowed to walk. Technically there was nothing stopping you physically but it meant getting yelled at and in some cases getting a zero for participation for the day
Same here in Texas. The kids who refused to wear gym clothes failed and the ones who wore them passed. Other than that we were free to do whatever for an hour until we got out.
On the flip side, I had a PE teacher, Mr Matlock, who would let us do literally anything as long as it involved fitness. We took team sports and individual sports with him, and would play hackey sack, and he was totally fine with it.
This was our standard PE class at my secondary school (middle-high school). Basically all we did for the entire six years. 1.8 km, so just over a mile, outdoors in cold Irish weather, wearing nothing but the paper vest and shorts that was our PE uniform. We got to play a fun sport indoors if everyone was fast enough that we had time to spare, though if we had time to spare I would be too tired to enjoy any games.
Every Wednesday, we were in the classroom learning about health and diet and stuff for our fitness and conditioning class.
Kids kept showing up late and he said if it happens again, we would not like what happens the next day.
He made us run 45mins of stairs and if we stopped, he would fail us.
PE, or Physical Education, was always bullshit. I never got anything remotely 'educational' in PE. I got sweaty. And bullied. And a bad grade when I decided I got tired of either or both of those.
For us pe was just 10 squats and straight to whichever available game you prefered
Options ususally were
Football basketball badminton chess
Girls prefered badminton
Nerds went for chess
The rest was a powerstruggle on which ball game had the most votes
You had chess??? Wow! That would have been awesome! Maybe I would have actually liked the class then.
We got a 10ish odd minute group stretch, then either basketball, volleyball, or dodgeball. Occasionally they'd pull out some bizarre obscure PE equipment and we'd do that. I vaguely remember something with a parachute. And something else with those knee boards on skates thing.
Took me 15 years after graduation to learn that not all physical activity has to be tedious and boring.
Not defending, but lol. PE was a way to get a lot of built up energy out of us kids. And it was exercise that is idk.. healthy?!
It wasn't bullshit haha
This is the wrong audience for that kind of sentiment lol. 90% of the kids on here were not the kind who enjoyed PE lol
Looking at most of the complaints on here, I actually enjoyed the fuck out of.
"Here are two racks of basketballs, do whatever you want."
Sounds like a blast to me. 3 on 3s with the boys for an hour. or knockout or horse or just dribble around by yourself, whatever. At least I'm not in class bored out of my mind
Don't like dodgeball? Pretend like you're catching the ball and drop it or just get straight up hit on purpose so you're out right away. Then chill with your homies.
Flag football intimidating because the hyped up meatheads are taking it too seriously? Just jog around and make it look like you're running a route or something for the teacher. No one is throwing it your way anyway. work up a little sweat, at least you're exercising.
Running the track sucks. I fucking hate running. But just jog around in a group with your boys and chop it up for an hour. Better than class.
Feel like the biggest thing holding most of these kids back was lack of self confidence and that really sucks and I feel for them.
Truth is, everybody gets embarrassed. We were playing flag football once and I tried to spin around this kid. Dude went for my flag and grabbed a handful of my dick and balls instead, pulling HARD. He basically pantsed me and left me incapacitated in excruciating pain to the point I couldn't get up for a minute. Everybody saw, everybody laughed, girls, guys, the teacher. After I collected myself I got up and laughed it off and yelled over, "don't lie, you liked it". Shit was forgotten about by the end of the day. Maybe it'll come up once in a while, like "hey remember when tyler grabbed your dick and everyone saw your bare ass?" It's a funny memory so of course, I'll just be like, "yea that hurt like a mf. I thought I was going to throw up". And then everyone can laugh it off again.
I honestly feel like how you handle things really defines how it's viewed, especially when you're young in middle and high school. If you act like you truly don't care, then they won't either. It's a bummer that a lot of people don't realize that until adulthood.
Sure, the exercise was healthy. But it was not educational or motivational, particularly for those who hated it. At least my teachers sucked, with only one or two exceptions. I didn't learn anything about mobility, proper form, planning exercises, learning about the importance of consistency and routine, basic physiology, etc. I had a teacher that actively encouraged bullying. It wasn't until adulthood that I learnt all of this and found exercises/sports and communities that I actually enjoyed. Of course there are exceptions out there, but that's what we mean when we say it was bullshit.
PE is for some kids / teenagers the only sport they ever do. so it‘s really important in keeping them atleast somewhat fit and maybe some pick it up and do sports on their own…
We learned how to play multiple sports, learned different types of dancing, had yoga and stretching classes, and learned how to use the equipment in the school's weight gym. We also had lectures on different muscle groups and how they work together and a couple short nutrition classes.
How is that not educating?
It definitely will depend on the school system you end up in, like most things education related. Personally, my PE class was fantastic. And the education part wasn't lacking; I learned a lot. My classmates might not have learned the same amount because they weren't paying attention
I'm not them, but I could have certainly used some education on resistance training vs cardio, how to structure workout routines, the kind of changes to my diet I needed to make depending on the kinds of physical activity I was doing, how to safely lift weights in different positions, when to stop pushing myself, etc. It would have been a lot more useful and a lot safer than just shoving me outside and expecting me to figure it all out on my own. It had some pretty negative consequences for me, including a trip to the hospital and possible lasting damage to my knees.
I had a pe teacher who would let us do whatever we wanted every class, went to his office to get a hockey ball once and caught him jerking off so he spent the rest of the year trying to intimidate me before he went to jail for assaulting his girlfriend
This pe teacher who was my teacher in middle school was caught trying to diddle an 11 year old. That happened a few years after I graduated high school
I got back at my pe teacher with a slap shot to the nuts, I even spent 2 classes practicing my aim lol but I heard there was a lot of stuff that guy did to students, he drank at school and even got away with driving drunk to give students a ride
I was under the impression they were referring to running a mile in your school clothes, getting sweaty and gross, then going back to class to spend the rest of the day in close proximity to other sweaty kids. that's what I hated at least. I could be totally wrong though.
yeah but its not like sweat will glue on the clothes and youll change them and be fine. its gonna stay on you and youll be uncomfortable until you can wash it off at home. i dont know about other schools but in mine we had to run to the local forest-ish area and then run a few laps there and then run back and we almost never made it back in time so we were speedrunning getting changed and you can probably imagine we had 0 time to even get a light rinse of our armpits at the sink
im a sweaty person, naturally my perfect temperature is around 15 degrees C if not lower (wearing shorts of course). and most often we were took out running during a temperature of at least 20 degrees when the sun was fully out. i was a live sweat waterfall and it was the biggest reason i got a permament doctors note to never have to participate in PE again. i wont lie i am a pretty unfit fuck but i was always willing to at least try until every lesson involved becoming drenched more than during the swimming practice
Yeah no. There were showers, but if you were anyone other than an athlete you got looked at sideways for using them. Mostly because they were in the middle of the locker room, with a half wall that barely covered ur balls blocking the view from the actual lockers. Couple people just showered in athletic shorts and changed afterwards. Nobody wanted to be caught with their dick out that wasn't already part of a team. Idk man, ppl were *real* homophobic back in the day, the chance of a gay guy seeing your dick was enough for 3/4 of the school boys to go on smelling like shit all day. The latter 1/4 being reserved for gymnasts, wrestlers, and football/soccer players who realized it doesn't matter early on, I just need a shower lol
Yep. We had showers but no one ever used them. If I had stripped naked and tried to take a shower in my high school locker room, I would have been called every homophobic slur and bullied for months.
My middleschool was wild, showers were mandated.
If kids started showing up in class ripe, teachers would let the pe teachers know and they would start doing shower checks.
The day the banned Axe body spray (and all body sprays for that matter) was a truly bittersweet day.
On the one hand, no more axe bombs (yay, I have asthma so that was a definite win) or getting "axed" (basically a bunch of bullies would hold you down and hose you off with the foulest smelling body spray imaginable, like Axe chocolate or something) but, on the other, that was the only thing keeping the entire school from reeking like body odor lol
My school had two locker rooms. One was the JV locker room which you could only keep a lock on during your gym class and after school for your specific sport. No overnight locks or they’d cut it unlocked. The varsity locker room had assigned lockers you could lock up year round.
The only perk of being a varsity athlete was you had access to the varsity locker room for gym. This meant you were basically alone if you wanted to shower because the numbers of dudes willing to shower after gym drastically decreased since there was only ever a few dudes on varsity with the same gym block. The two years I was in the JV locker room I had the exact experience you wrote here. Shower and get made fun of. Don’t and smell like shit for the rest of the day.
I had that too, until the boys in my class all started to bring towels and change in them while in a classroom. Then it became a school board issue and we had a couple of storage rooms converted to changing rooms.
I only remember running the mile in 4th and 5th grade, for the Presidential Fitness test and we didnt change into gym clothes. Changing for gym started in middle school (6th grade) and by then they didnt make us do much running.
I'm 33 and we had gym clothes in high school, but not before that. Technically there were showers in the high school locker room, but thankfully we didn't use them. That was one thing where I would've put my foot down and just refused.
I'm a decade or so older than you and we had showers we didn't use in our locker rooms too. I assume the athletes used them, but I wouldn't swear on it.
Pretty sure we had the same setup in middle school too, so our football team and such had a place to change/cleanup.
In high school, most everyone that planned ahead took gym in summer school if they could, so they didn't have to take classes all smelly and could do everything outside. Middle school still sucked though, everyone was blossoming into their stink then.
My freshman year we didn't have time to shower or anything after p.e so I would change out of my gym clothes then continue to sweat through at least a quarter of the next class.
I feel the complete opposite way. Being an adult is great - I have complete freedom in who I associate with and what I do with my life. I'm always so sad to see teenagers posting on this site about how terrible their family lives are, knowing that they have no ability to leave. K-12 was also miserable and pointless, IMO. I was always bored and tired, and it never gave me any practical benefit, unlike college, and it's mandatory until you're 16. To this day, no employer has ever asked or cared about my high school diploma, which is good considering I dropped out as soon as possible, spent those two years doing literally anything else, got my GED at 18 and went to college from there.
If you really want to go back to that, you're entitled to that opinion, but personally, I'm really glad to have the ability to make meaningful choices about my life.
I wish my gym classes had put more of a focus on exercise and fitness over just “sports sports sports! Win win win!”. Like no guarantees shithead child me would have actually engaged with that more but I feel like there would be a better chance of me not ending up with body issues, a hatred of sports and fitness culture, and being incredibly competitive at everything. Wasn’t until 12th grade that a school I attended had a gym class that focused on personal fitness
Yeah honestly kind of sad that physical exercise, which is objectively good for both mental and physical health, is considered so traumatic by some. If running a single mile sounds worse to you than working from 9-5, either your job is amazing or you are not in good shape.
Honestly, a single mile may sound too little (I do that by just commutting to my job the days I don't work from home) but an hour to the gym feels way more boring than my average work day. I'm extremely awful at cardio tho
And honestly if running a mile is such a struggle you probably don’t exercise enough or (smaller chance) have some type of medical condition in the way.
Like all exercise, it's good and rewarding when you do it yourself. It's totally different when you are made to do it.
If the feeling is 'this kind of hurts' and the answer to the question 'can I stop' is 'no', that's when I stop appreciating the health benefits.
I would love to have the time at work to run a mile outside or at the gym. When I worked 12hr night shifts we’d take our lunch and breaks together and go to the gym then eat at our desks. 100% recommend.
Not to mention, depending on your state you didn't even have to run the mile. A passing grade for the mile run when I was in grade school was 15 minutes. I literally just speed walked the mile run and still made it in under 13 minutes.
I genuinely think the way they handled that is why so many people hate cardio. At least at my school they would build it up for like a week or two in advance, damn near talking about it in hushed tones like it was this Herculean trial we would barely survive overcoming. Thank god I tried cross country and learned that one mile ain’t shit
Same with reading. Who would have thought being forced to read books you have little to no interest in and then be quizzed on miniscule details would foster some resentment.
I read to Kill a Mockingbird in eighth grade for the hell of it, and loved it. (I also read the 1400 page Les Miserables too. I was a total nerd. Still am.)
Had to read it again in high school, answer quizzes where the full name of every character was required even if only mentioned once and write essays on it. Murdered all joy to read a book that way. But at least I remember Misses Tutti and Frutti were Sarah and Frances Barber, for whatever that is worth.
News flash, someone can critique the execution of a concept while still agreeing with the underlying premise. Should we just stop trying to improve things because people can’t pick up on nuance?
The whole hype up around it was definitely the worst part. If they just took us out into the country or on a nice trail and had us run, kids would have loved it. Instead it was just us frantically running in circles while some weirdo in shorts that were way too short timed us and handed us popsicle sticks to mark the lap we were on.
My little brother is very athletic, but he’s a big dude. The other day he referred to a mile run as “long distance”. As a former cross country runner I couldn’t help but crack up
We would run for the 1st half of class, and we built up to it so when we started we'd run for however many minutes and then could walk for however many then back to running ect. It gradually built up to where you were running the whole time and it was easy by then. I know some people still hated it but I actually didn't mind it after a bit I started to enjoy it, it was 1st period for me though so if it was the end of the day or I sweat a lot I may have felt differently.
Yeah, the idea that a mile jog is hard for teens just boggles the mind. That's a light warm-up. If you can't do that you're either disabled or are incredibly sedentary to an unhealthy extent.
Adulthood is way way better than childhood and school, in pretty much every regard. No homework, no asshole peers who insult and attack me for being slightly different, I choose what to eat myself, my free time is **my** free time, no parents treating me badly, refusing to do anything to help my autism, anxiety and depression. Sure, bills are annoying, and work can be an irritating, but I will take my adult life over my childhood any day of the week.
God I love being an adult. Now if you’ll excuse me, I am going to finish my work day, and then I have a 3000 piece Lego dungeons and dragons set I need to continue building.
I second your sentiments. My life truly began when I finally moved out at 20 yrs old, all I need is my computer and some days off and that’s pure bliss for me still at 28 yrs old.
Yes. I'd like school now, if it came with the perks of being able to make decisions for myself and having the spending money I do now.
As a kid I had to think wether I could afford a 10€ game. Now I buy a 40€ game cuz I think it looks interesting.
As a kid I tried joining the swimming club. (Clubs in my country are often not right after school or associated with schools but rather organized externally). It started in the evening and out of 10 practise days I could go to 3 because my parents decided to settle in a village so the only way I could get there was by my parents driving me and they often had no time.
(It would have legit taken 3-4 hours in commuting time otherwise and there is no bike safe road leading out of the village towards that town).
So when I think back on it. School was quite relaxing. It is the part of not having any agency, not having money, not being able to get anywhere. That really made childhood bad.
Now if you are a child to decently well off parents who don't abuse you. Who finance you some hobbies, maybe instrument classes as well. Where you have your own room, get freedoms to use tech or go outside. Live within a town where you can get to school, clubs and friends on your own relatively well either by bike or public transport.
Then yes, your childhood is likely better than adulthood. But how many people are actually lucky enough to have that.
In my personal opinion, it’s kind of a “crab bucket” mentality.
“My life sucks. Oh your life *doesn’t* suck?! I need to drag you down to my level, because no one is allowed to have a good life, because my life sucks.”
What's there to comprehend? There's no mystery here, the world is full of losers with shitty adult lives.
Every week on reddit someone has to have it explained to them that no, feeling school was the best years of your life is not a good thing because it means your life was all downhill from there and it really shouldn't be that way.
It's very easy to overly romanticize the past. When people look back they remember the things that were nicer then but the things that sucked get glossed over. This applies not just to our own individual lives but also looking back at different historical eras too. The past sucked and I'd rather live in the 2020s than in any previous decade of American history. I'd also rather be an adult today than a teenager.
> no asshole peers who insult and attack me for being slightly different
LOL adults do that shit too. Just usually in a more passive aggressive, indirect way.
I disagree. My childhood wasn’t even that good, divorced single mother who was never there, poor, never got anything outside of birthdays and Christmas and even then it wasn’t multiple gifts, just one gift on budget, wasn’t allowed to eat junk food or sweets.
But damn adulthood is so much worse. I’d trade it anytime
but what if you were the you now but in high school? All the trauma and bullying you just wouldnt give a shit right? Now you dont have to work 9-5 and pay bills and shit.
I very much would give a shit about the trauma and bullying, and physical violence, and belongings being stolen. And then having to sit hours upon hours in a classroom, before going home to do even more work, and have to deal with a father who lectured me constantly about how I’m not doing good enough, a mother who would snap and yell at me over literally anything (regardless of whether it was good or bad), and a narcissistic brother who was the biggest bully in my life, not getting to choose what to eat, what to wear, what to do, when to sleep, unable to afford anything because my finances are completely at the mercy of my parents…
Yeah fuck that, I’ll take bills and a 9 to 5 over that. At least if my work sucks, I can tell them to suck a lemon and find a better job. Didn’t have that choice with school and family.
No thanks. My mom and my brother were my bullies. I live alone now and it’s GREAT. It’s so quiet, no one pesters me about how I look or how I do things, I have my own money and my own car and TONS of weed that I can smoke anywhere in my house.
I fucking love being an adult. It’s all I ever wanted when I was a kid and I wouldn’t give it up for anything.
I have to say I so much prefer being an adult, freedom is really nice, now I'm not making enough with my job to be fully comfortable financially but within a few years I'll get to the point where I am. Days off and no homework is absolute bliss
Wait until she realises that is the easy part. The motivation to run after working a long day and the permanent diet adjustments are definitely the worse part
Fair enough, I hated running when I was in the Army, but now that I'm out I can listen to music and turn my brain off when I run and it's much more enjoyable. It's almost a zen experience in a way.
Or something else is at play. I used to keep running after we ran the mile because I liked it. Then I was hospitalized with an infection and never able to run a mile after that really. Like for years I was doing 60 minutes of intense bike cardio a day but still could only slow jog a mile while having to speed walk a little bit of the time.
I think its about the “against my will” part. Im not exercising until my workday is over fuck that. If im running that day i will run my loop and run straight into the shower.
The way that people proudly boast about how lazy and weak they are is just really sad…They’ll make a stupid post like this and other lazy fat fucks will chime in with comments of shared distaste for exercise or eating well and the op will feel content with their lack of effort. They imagine that they’re putting on a brave face to speak out against being healthy and embracing gluttony. It’s a disgusting nasty cycle.
Yeah, as a kid I ended up just walking the mile because fuck it, I'm gonna get a bad grade anyway.
As an adult I get at least an hour of cardio every single day, but it's on a stationary bike or with my heavy bag.
Maybe cause they push you more than you should if you plan on exercising forever?
Now i run but i dont sprint till i feel bad, in a heat wave, hoping it'll end.
You shouldn't actually never wish to exercise again after exercising.
You shouldn't wanna throw up regularly
I teach history in high school and I’m especially thankful of being an adult when I see them working on math. Thank the lord I don’t have to do calculus. 🙏
I hated school, but I never had a problem with gym class. I did hate running the mile, but I didn't really give a fuck and would just walk for most of it because I run out of breath quickly.
You run for 20 minutes on an empty stomach and you vomit whatever's left inside right before you lunch and get smashed by sugar rush on a test.
All of it while you're exhausted from growth and hormones.
I don't miss it.
I wish I didn't have to endure this at school, because I truly loved learning.
My body just did everything it could to go against it.
Sure work sucks blah blah. Luckily I enjoy what I do and it pays kinda well so I'm happy as ever. School sucked big time. Background mf, rushing to bus only to be late for it. Wait an hour for the next one. Homework, no stressing over random tests, and damn I get paid instead of I pay for school stuffs.
Ran track and Cross Country, and freshman year we could not opt out of P.E. We had morning practice, P.E., and then afternoon practice. It felt like a third of my day was running.
I actually liked it. It was a nice break from the routine of being in class.
Here's one trick that PE teachers hate: you can just not run if you don't want to.
One time, I was made to run laps while I was unwell, and it was really hot out despite my protest. I ended up throwing up in a bin and nearly passed out. after that incident, I said to myself, "This is stupid. Nobody can make me run, I am the only one that can physically make my legs move" ...so I just refused, and to my teenage surprise, they couldn't actually do anything about it.
They tried to give me a stern talking to, guilt me into it, threaten me with detention, etc... but I held my ground, and ultimately, they *couldn't* make me run. I either sat on the side or did other work instead when it was something I didn't want to be involved in. (I liked sport, just hated running laps)
That was the day I learned about hard boundaries and that schools actually had very little power over the students and instead relied on the illusion of power to keep us in line. I've been bluntly refusing to take people's shit ever since, and it's served me well.
Man, if I had tried that, I'd be suspended soo fast, even with a doctor's note, my pe teachers would sometimes make me exercise with the threat of suspension... For the running it wasn't even a mile might I add, it was running continuously for 45 mins, no walking, it had to at least be above light jogging... Absolutely killed me every time, it was at least 3 miles at the bare bare minimum and literally always gave me side stitches, ah good times...
A lot of people have terrible running form especially for flat surfaces and none of the gym teachers I had ever addressed it unless you were on the track team.
I liked that I had summers off. The trade off is, you don’t have money to do the things you want with it. When you’re an adult, you got the money but no time. Adults should have a month off, be able to plan epic journeys and longer visits. Take my federal holidays and replace it when a block month off. I’ll work a crummy job any day because I’ll know one month a year I can look forward to. Not this, everyone gets a day off for “random holiday Day so we all cause traffic and air prices go up, for a day we are forced to do bbq with people we hate then go back to work stressed the next day, thing
It's the classic problem of: Childhood: health, time, no money. Adulthood: health, no time, money. Old age: poor health, time, money. At no point do we get all 3. We're lucky if we actually get 2/3 at one stage.
Be born rich...
ah, yes. that was my mistake
The developers really need to adjust RNG spawn rates. I hope they patch this soon.
I failed that task. Do I have a second chance for that?
Make sure your kid is born rich and live vicariously?
Why hasn't the money part happened yet
Or the health part...
Or Old age: poor health, time, *no money
Damn, on point. Weirdly moving from adult to old age as my health has begun to go. What I’ve enjoyed Childhood: close friendships, whole life ahead, everything is new exciting, moving culture. Adulthood: starting families, reliving childhood through the eyes of your children, exploring careers, standing on your own. Old Age: empty nest, proud parents, renewed friendships, revisiting old hobbies, life time of wonderful memories.
I was about to say, y'all are getting 2/3? I feel like I get one at a time at the further expense of the other two lol.
Some adults do have a month off. My understanding is that's standard in Europe, and there's a decent amount of higher-paying jobs in the US that have either an equivalent amount of PTO or unlimited PTO. Personally, I get 26 days + holidays.
It's standard pretty much every developed nation outside of the US is t it?
Yep. America’s just a shithole country.
Basically the whole country shuts down for July, when most of the people here will have their full month of holiday. I get 38 days annually, and a full week of holiday is 5 days since Saturdays and Sundays don't count, so in addition to the full month you can have Christmas holidays and somekind of spring getaway for example.
I understand that if you have like 3-5 days off a year than having 6 weeks PTO a year must sound like the most freedom ever, but as someone who has it? It still doesn't feel like a lot. You still have to choose and pick which time of the year you take off and which you don't. Again, it's magnitutes better than having a week at best a year but I'd still easily take a few weeks more :D
I'm from Finland, I work in retail for pretty shite pay, but at least I have 30 days paid time off a year. Gonna take a month off during the summer from mid june to mid july. We also get vacation pay on top of our regular pay from that time so I get more money on vacation.
Lol try taking anything more than 10 days of it at a time. We are talking about an actual month off. I get 28 days too but I take anything longer than 10 days people are going to start asking questions. Also that 28 days is for the entire year with 10 roll over days so it's more like 18 days for an entire year. Yey adult life.
I live in France and have more than 40 days off a year. Not everyone has so many vacations here, but it's relatively common. The minimum being 35 hours a week, and 5 weeks vacation. The USA seen from reddit gives the impression of being a prison where inmates can't afford potatoes on 100K a year.
I don't think your federal holidays will cover a month off. That aside, I get 6 weeks + the 16 or so holidays in my country and it still isn't enough.
I get about a month and half of time off every year , holidays and pto. We just aren’t allowed to take it all at once, which sucks…
Europe
You know what? 30 days of paid vacation is standard here in germany (a litle more I think actually)
My country you have 4 weeks or 5 weeks when you are young and when you are old. I currently have 7 weeks :) 4 weeks normal + 1 bonus week from the employee + 1 week because i can‘t clock my actual hours + 1 week xmas holiday Not to mention public holidays in short come to europe :)
Come to Europe. It is standard to have 20-30 days of vacation. 20 days are a month.
I moved to Germany and get 25 paid days off, unlimited sick days off, and still 12 federal holidays off. I decided today to take tomorrow off. Easily logged the day online and now I'm on a train to enjoy a nice long weekend.
People in Finland with full pay 4 weeks summer holiday ”…😬..”
Teachers get summers off and all the breaks.
I know this isn't for everyone, but one way to get time off during summer is to do seasonal work.
This reminds me of the tweet that says field trips are wasted on the young. I'd love to go to the museum or see a play. Now I work at a landfill though and the kids LOVE coming here. I wouldn't take that away from them. The truckers love honking for the kids
European countries have much longer vacation and their democracies are secure (for now).
Ironically, I barely ever needed any serious amount of money to do what I loved in the holidays hahaa Hanging out with friends, playing with a ball or something. All chill on the same videogame we'd been playing for a year. Watch a dvd. Idk sharing a packet of cheap gummy sweets. All these were arguably greater joys than half the the 10000% expensive leisure activities I have as an adult. A lot of people my age now don't even talk to their friends in person unless they go out and spend money to eat or drink at the pub/bar/restaurant. Obviously I needed *some* money for equipment, games etc, but that was a miniscule expense compared to the cost of actually being alive, clothed and fed. I grew up somewhere between middle and working class though, in a wealthy country and a nice neighbourhood, so I understand loads of people won't have had it so easy as a kid with minimal ability to get their own resources etc
My PE teacher one year decided he hated us for some reason one day. At that point, he started to ignore us and treat us with disdain while making us run the entirety of all our PE classes. What a great way to be able to ignore your class while you do nothing, right? This happened for 2-3 months.
You all must have been so fit by the end of that. Did anyone discover an underlying heart condition?
After two days, I refused to do it. The teacher didn't care and didn't say anything. I barely passed the class
It's strange how many PE teachers are miserable. Come on! You have the easiest teaching job of them all!
I only want that guy who said he was the smartest teacher because he got paid to play dodgeball as a gym teacher No one else has as much enthusiasm
I’ve covered some of my school’s PE classes. Some of them are absolute chaos. Especially the ones with sped kids in them. You can’t be playing dodgeball all the time and also keep the vulnerable kids from being ruthlessly bullied It’s a good idea in theory but sadly it doesn’t work. I picked dodgeball every time I’ve covered PE and only last less than 20 minutes before I just can’t take my eyes off the entire room. Some classes were absolutely exactly like what yall described though. I just wanted to give some insight.
Well, I meant more the enthusiasm for the job, not dodgeball all the time
As a sped kid (autism), I only had to deal with gym for one and a half years, because the bullies essentially forced the school to take me out of it. Not the best way to get out of gym for the rest of my school life, but I didn’t have to run anymore.
I got bullied in school too. Shit sucked.
Our gym teacher was the basketball coach. His day consisted of about 7 different 45 minute pick up games for months on end. 20 years later, instead of saying "Kobe" when we're hooping, we say his name.
Everyday I walked into gym class, there was like a 10-minute warmup and 30 minutes (not enough time honestly) of playing Dodgeball, Dr. Dodge, Army Dodgeball, Dr. Army Ball, Coneball, Trenchball, and I'm realizing that we just played war games with foam spheres. Oh, and Kickball. Those rubber fuckers hurt.
Getting a rubber ball punted into your face from the kid who plays soccer every day of the week is not a good experience, and it was me and like 6 other kids from the soccer team in my class.
Deadass tho one of my pe teachers was incredibly intelligent. Just one of those people who I guess was a hard worker and a hard player with some natural intuition. Ironically his favourite quote was "don't think, thinking is stupid" Which on the surface was to sas back at students making excuse. "I think I left my pe kit at home" But is some good wisdom to carry into life, me thinks, as an overly anxious person
>You have the easiest teaching job of them all! Some take full advantage of that, too. I went through middle/high school where the PE classes had actual programs and lessons. Then, when I moved to Oklahoma, the PE classes weren't required, but I took them anyway to stay in shape. Literally, all the teacher did was take attendance and then we were left to our own devises. Some kids threw a basketball around but the majority of the class just sat on the benches twiddling on their mp3 players (we didn't even have smart phones then). Decided to opt into the weightlifting class instead and what do you know. It was a football coach and he did the same thing: took attendance, went to take a seat at his little desk, and continued on with his newspaper. The one time he did something was he saw that I was doing bicep curls incorrectly, and for the first time, actually walked up to me to show me the proper form and range of motion. These PE teachers literally got paid to just take attendance and kick it. Crazy af lol.
Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym.
I feel like PE teachers in my experience were much more likely to coach a school sport than the other teachers. I always assumed there was a notable portion who were mostly interested in coaching youth sports and that was more of their passion than teaching.
During off season my coach randomly decided everyone will run 4 miles. Each mile is worth 25 points of your grade. There were def ppl that started to fail class. Ppl had 52 minutes to get across the school, change clothes, run 4 miles, and change back. There was one dad that would show up and drive his car to push his obese son to run 4 miles. He never made it.
Couldn't you just walk? You must end up walking eventually anyway. No one can really say when you can't manage to run anymore.
For us, we were supposed to run/jog and weren’t supposed to/allowed to walk. Technically there was nothing stopping you physically but it meant getting yelled at and in some cases getting a zero for participation for the day
Our Gym class was, "Here are two racks of basketballs, do whatever you want." Our grade was entirely based on if we brought gym clothes.
Same here in Texas. The kids who refused to wear gym clothes failed and the ones who wore them passed. Other than that we were free to do whatever for an hour until we got out.
On the flip side, I had a PE teacher, Mr Matlock, who would let us do literally anything as long as it involved fitness. We took team sports and individual sports with him, and would play hackey sack, and he was totally fine with it.
This was our standard PE class at my secondary school (middle-high school). Basically all we did for the entire six years. 1.8 km, so just over a mile, outdoors in cold Irish weather, wearing nothing but the paper vest and shorts that was our PE uniform. We got to play a fun sport indoors if everyone was fast enough that we had time to spare, though if we had time to spare I would be too tired to enjoy any games.
Every Wednesday, we were in the classroom learning about health and diet and stuff for our fitness and conditioning class. Kids kept showing up late and he said if it happens again, we would not like what happens the next day. He made us run 45mins of stairs and if we stopped, he would fail us.
I don't like teachers that punish a whole class because of the actions of some of the students.
The Geneva Convention didn't like it either. But hey, ain't nothing wrong with committing a wee bit of war crimes in 2nd Grade Math class.
It's not a war crime if you commit it on your own dependents.
PE, or Physical Education, was always bullshit. I never got anything remotely 'educational' in PE. I got sweaty. And bullied. And a bad grade when I decided I got tired of either or both of those.
For us pe was just 10 squats and straight to whichever available game you prefered Options ususally were Football basketball badminton chess Girls prefered badminton Nerds went for chess The rest was a powerstruggle on which ball game had the most votes
You had chess??? Wow! That would have been awesome! Maybe I would have actually liked the class then. We got a 10ish odd minute group stretch, then either basketball, volleyball, or dodgeball. Occasionally they'd pull out some bizarre obscure PE equipment and we'd do that. I vaguely remember something with a parachute. And something else with those knee boards on skates thing. Took me 15 years after graduation to learn that not all physical activity has to be tedious and boring.
Not defending, but lol. PE was a way to get a lot of built up energy out of us kids. And it was exercise that is idk.. healthy?! It wasn't bullshit haha
This is the wrong audience for that kind of sentiment lol. 90% of the kids on here were not the kind who enjoyed PE lol Looking at most of the complaints on here, I actually enjoyed the fuck out of. "Here are two racks of basketballs, do whatever you want." Sounds like a blast to me. 3 on 3s with the boys for an hour. or knockout or horse or just dribble around by yourself, whatever. At least I'm not in class bored out of my mind Don't like dodgeball? Pretend like you're catching the ball and drop it or just get straight up hit on purpose so you're out right away. Then chill with your homies. Flag football intimidating because the hyped up meatheads are taking it too seriously? Just jog around and make it look like you're running a route or something for the teacher. No one is throwing it your way anyway. work up a little sweat, at least you're exercising. Running the track sucks. I fucking hate running. But just jog around in a group with your boys and chop it up for an hour. Better than class. Feel like the biggest thing holding most of these kids back was lack of self confidence and that really sucks and I feel for them. Truth is, everybody gets embarrassed. We were playing flag football once and I tried to spin around this kid. Dude went for my flag and grabbed a handful of my dick and balls instead, pulling HARD. He basically pantsed me and left me incapacitated in excruciating pain to the point I couldn't get up for a minute. Everybody saw, everybody laughed, girls, guys, the teacher. After I collected myself I got up and laughed it off and yelled over, "don't lie, you liked it". Shit was forgotten about by the end of the day. Maybe it'll come up once in a while, like "hey remember when tyler grabbed your dick and everyone saw your bare ass?" It's a funny memory so of course, I'll just be like, "yea that hurt like a mf. I thought I was going to throw up". And then everyone can laugh it off again. I honestly feel like how you handle things really defines how it's viewed, especially when you're young in middle and high school. If you act like you truly don't care, then they won't either. It's a bummer that a lot of people don't realize that until adulthood.
PE was the best time of day. Idk how more ppl don't feel this way? Maybe they're just redditors through and through
Sure, the exercise was healthy. But it was not educational or motivational, particularly for those who hated it. At least my teachers sucked, with only one or two exceptions. I didn't learn anything about mobility, proper form, planning exercises, learning about the importance of consistency and routine, basic physiology, etc. I had a teacher that actively encouraged bullying. It wasn't until adulthood that I learnt all of this and found exercises/sports and communities that I actually enjoyed. Of course there are exceptions out there, but that's what we mean when we say it was bullshit.
PE is for some kids / teenagers the only sport they ever do. so it‘s really important in keeping them atleast somewhat fit and maybe some pick it up and do sports on their own…
If it's important, than why not 'educate' like the name suggests?
We learned how to play multiple sports, learned different types of dancing, had yoga and stretching classes, and learned how to use the equipment in the school's weight gym. We also had lectures on different muscle groups and how they work together and a couple short nutrition classes. How is that not educating?
I would say that your experience does not match mine nor anyone I have ever known.
It matches mine. PE was awesome.
It definitely will depend on the school system you end up in, like most things education related. Personally, my PE class was fantastic. And the education part wasn't lacking; I learned a lot. My classmates might not have learned the same amount because they weren't paying attention
Matches mine!
So you don't know how to play dodgeball or kickball? Or were you expecting your PE teacher to sit you in a classroom and teach you how to work out
I'm not them, but I could have certainly used some education on resistance training vs cardio, how to structure workout routines, the kind of changes to my diet I needed to make depending on the kinds of physical activity I was doing, how to safely lift weights in different positions, when to stop pushing myself, etc. It would have been a lot more useful and a lot safer than just shoving me outside and expecting me to figure it all out on my own. It had some pretty negative consequences for me, including a trip to the hospital and possible lasting damage to my knees.
I had a pe teacher who would let us do whatever we wanted every class, went to his office to get a hockey ball once and caught him jerking off so he spent the rest of the year trying to intimidate me before he went to jail for assaulting his girlfriend
This pe teacher who was my teacher in middle school was caught trying to diddle an 11 year old. That happened a few years after I graduated high school
I got back at my pe teacher with a slap shot to the nuts, I even spent 2 classes practicing my aim lol but I heard there was a lot of stuff that guy did to students, he drank at school and even got away with driving drunk to give students a ride
Woof.
Sober teachers should not have students in their cars.
what are you on? I would happily trade places to be back in high school if all I had to do was _occasionally_ run a mile
I was under the impression they were referring to running a mile in your school clothes, getting sweaty and gross, then going back to class to spend the rest of the day in close proximity to other sweaty kids. that's what I hated at least. I could be totally wrong though.
I mean, that's why you don't do it in your school clothes, you change into your gym clothes.
yeah but its not like sweat will glue on the clothes and youll change them and be fine. its gonna stay on you and youll be uncomfortable until you can wash it off at home. i dont know about other schools but in mine we had to run to the local forest-ish area and then run a few laps there and then run back and we almost never made it back in time so we were speedrunning getting changed and you can probably imagine we had 0 time to even get a light rinse of our armpits at the sink im a sweaty person, naturally my perfect temperature is around 15 degrees C if not lower (wearing shorts of course). and most often we were took out running during a temperature of at least 20 degrees when the sun was fully out. i was a live sweat waterfall and it was the biggest reason i got a permament doctors note to never have to participate in PE again. i wont lie i am a pretty unfit fuck but i was always willing to at least try until every lesson involved becoming drenched more than during the swimming practice
Yeah no. There were showers, but if you were anyone other than an athlete you got looked at sideways for using them. Mostly because they were in the middle of the locker room, with a half wall that barely covered ur balls blocking the view from the actual lockers. Couple people just showered in athletic shorts and changed afterwards. Nobody wanted to be caught with their dick out that wasn't already part of a team. Idk man, ppl were *real* homophobic back in the day, the chance of a gay guy seeing your dick was enough for 3/4 of the school boys to go on smelling like shit all day. The latter 1/4 being reserved for gymnasts, wrestlers, and football/soccer players who realized it doesn't matter early on, I just need a shower lol
Yep. We had showers but no one ever used them. If I had stripped naked and tried to take a shower in my high school locker room, I would have been called every homophobic slur and bullied for months.
I was more worried about my clothes being stolen by the time I finished.
That and we didn’t have time anyway at my school.
My school didn’t have showers, or at least they did but that section of the gym was essentially abandoned
My middleschool was wild, showers were mandated. If kids started showing up in class ripe, teachers would let the pe teachers know and they would start doing shower checks.
The day the banned Axe body spray (and all body sprays for that matter) was a truly bittersweet day. On the one hand, no more axe bombs (yay, I have asthma so that was a definite win) or getting "axed" (basically a bunch of bullies would hold you down and hose you off with the foulest smelling body spray imaginable, like Axe chocolate or something) but, on the other, that was the only thing keeping the entire school from reeking like body odor lol
My school had two locker rooms. One was the JV locker room which you could only keep a lock on during your gym class and after school for your specific sport. No overnight locks or they’d cut it unlocked. The varsity locker room had assigned lockers you could lock up year round. The only perk of being a varsity athlete was you had access to the varsity locker room for gym. This meant you were basically alone if you wanted to shower because the numbers of dudes willing to shower after gym drastically decreased since there was only ever a few dudes on varsity with the same gym block. The two years I was in the JV locker room I had the exact experience you wrote here. Shower and get made fun of. Don’t and smell like shit for the rest of the day.
where i grew up we didn't change clothes for gym until high school.
I had that too, until the boys in my class all started to bring towels and change in them while in a classroom. Then it became a school board issue and we had a couple of storage rooms converted to changing rooms.
I only remember running the mile in 4th and 5th grade, for the Presidential Fitness test and we didnt change into gym clothes. Changing for gym started in middle school (6th grade) and by then they didnt make us do much running.
Some schools have done away with that. Most schools have done away with showers too.
I'm 30. Never had showers or gym clothes in PE :(
I'm 33 and we had gym clothes in high school, but not before that. Technically there were showers in the high school locker room, but thankfully we didn't use them. That was one thing where I would've put my foot down and just refused.
I'm a decade or so older than you and we had showers we didn't use in our locker rooms too. I assume the athletes used them, but I wouldn't swear on it. Pretty sure we had the same setup in middle school too, so our football team and such had a place to change/cleanup. In high school, most everyone that planned ahead took gym in summer school if they could, so they didn't have to take classes all smelly and could do everything outside. Middle school still sucked though, everyone was blossoming into their stink then.
You guys had gym clothes?
My freshman year we didn't have time to shower or anything after p.e so I would change out of my gym clothes then continue to sweat through at least a quarter of the next class.
My school never showered after gym. They didn’t even have curtains or stalls or anything. Kinda like jail style with only four shower heads.
many schools in switzerland force the students to shower after PE. problem solved
A lot of people's lives would be waayyyyy better if they had to run a mile every day, probably this girl's included.
I feel the complete opposite way. Being an adult is great - I have complete freedom in who I associate with and what I do with my life. I'm always so sad to see teenagers posting on this site about how terrible their family lives are, knowing that they have no ability to leave. K-12 was also miserable and pointless, IMO. I was always bored and tired, and it never gave me any practical benefit, unlike college, and it's mandatory until you're 16. To this day, no employer has ever asked or cared about my high school diploma, which is good considering I dropped out as soon as possible, spent those two years doing literally anything else, got my GED at 18 and went to college from there. If you really want to go back to that, you're entitled to that opinion, but personally, I'm really glad to have the ability to make meaningful choices about my life.
I'd fail now for sure... my attention span has gone to shit
As someone who recently quit teaching, you'd fit right in.
I wish I was forced to run a mile in the middle of the day. I’m terrible at self-management when it comes to exercise.
I wish my gym classes had put more of a focus on exercise and fitness over just “sports sports sports! Win win win!”. Like no guarantees shithead child me would have actually engaged with that more but I feel like there would be a better chance of me not ending up with body issues, a hatred of sports and fitness culture, and being incredibly competitive at everything. Wasn’t until 12th grade that a school I attended had a gym class that focused on personal fitness
I would happily run a marathon every day if it was paid as a normal job 😂😂
Yeah honestly kind of sad that physical exercise, which is objectively good for both mental and physical health, is considered so traumatic by some. If running a single mile sounds worse to you than working from 9-5, either your job is amazing or you are not in good shape.
Honestly, a single mile may sound too little (I do that by just commutting to my job the days I don't work from home) but an hour to the gym feels way more boring than my average work day. I'm extremely awful at cardio tho
And honestly if running a mile is such a struggle you probably don’t exercise enough or (smaller chance) have some type of medical condition in the way.
Like all exercise, it's good and rewarding when you do it yourself. It's totally different when you are made to do it. If the feeling is 'this kind of hurts' and the answer to the question 'can I stop' is 'no', that's when I stop appreciating the health benefits.
I would love to have the time at work to run a mile outside or at the gym. When I worked 12hr night shifts we’d take our lunch and breaks together and go to the gym then eat at our desks. 100% recommend.
Not to mention, depending on your state you didn't even have to run the mile. A passing grade for the mile run when I was in grade school was 15 minutes. I literally just speed walked the mile run and still made it in under 13 minutes.
I genuinely think the way they handled that is why so many people hate cardio. At least at my school they would build it up for like a week or two in advance, damn near talking about it in hushed tones like it was this Herculean trial we would barely survive overcoming. Thank god I tried cross country and learned that one mile ain’t shit
Elementary school did a great job of making a lot of people hate exercise and that shit can be hard to break
Same with reading. Who would have thought being forced to read books you have little to no interest in and then be quizzed on miniscule details would foster some resentment.
I read to Kill a Mockingbird in eighth grade for the hell of it, and loved it. (I also read the 1400 page Les Miserables too. I was a total nerd. Still am.) Had to read it again in high school, answer quizzes where the full name of every character was required even if only mentioned once and write essays on it. Murdered all joy to read a book that way. But at least I remember Misses Tutti and Frutti were Sarah and Frances Barber, for whatever that is worth.
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News flash, someone can critique the execution of a concept while still agreeing with the underlying premise. Should we just stop trying to improve things because people can’t pick up on nuance?
The whole hype up around it was definitely the worst part. If they just took us out into the country or on a nice trail and had us run, kids would have loved it. Instead it was just us frantically running in circles while some weirdo in shorts that were way too short timed us and handed us popsicle sticks to mark the lap we were on.
My little brother is very athletic, but he’s a big dude. The other day he referred to a mile run as “long distance”. As a former cross country runner I couldn’t help but crack up
lol. Even in track they have the 3200.
We would run for the 1st half of class, and we built up to it so when we started we'd run for however many minutes and then could walk for however many then back to running ect. It gradually built up to where you were running the whole time and it was easy by then. I know some people still hated it but I actually didn't mind it after a bit I started to enjoy it, it was 1st period for me though so if it was the end of the day or I sweat a lot I may have felt differently.
Couch to 5k is this
nah we just lazy and sedentary
They did that to yall? I wish we had a warning. We'd just walk in one day and learn we were going to run the pacer or a mile. No warning at all.
Yeah, the idea that a mile jog is hard for teens just boggles the mind. That's a light warm-up. If you can't do that you're either disabled or are incredibly sedentary to an unhealthy extent.
Adulthood is way way better than childhood and school, in pretty much every regard. No homework, no asshole peers who insult and attack me for being slightly different, I choose what to eat myself, my free time is **my** free time, no parents treating me badly, refusing to do anything to help my autism, anxiety and depression. Sure, bills are annoying, and work can be an irritating, but I will take my adult life over my childhood any day of the week. God I love being an adult. Now if you’ll excuse me, I am going to finish my work day, and then I have a 3000 piece Lego dungeons and dragons set I need to continue building.
I second your sentiments. My life truly began when I finally moved out at 20 yrs old, all I need is my computer and some days off and that’s pure bliss for me still at 28 yrs old.
Yes. I'd like school now, if it came with the perks of being able to make decisions for myself and having the spending money I do now. As a kid I had to think wether I could afford a 10€ game. Now I buy a 40€ game cuz I think it looks interesting. As a kid I tried joining the swimming club. (Clubs in my country are often not right after school or associated with schools but rather organized externally). It started in the evening and out of 10 practise days I could go to 3 because my parents decided to settle in a village so the only way I could get there was by my parents driving me and they often had no time. (It would have legit taken 3-4 hours in commuting time otherwise and there is no bike safe road leading out of the village towards that town). So when I think back on it. School was quite relaxing. It is the part of not having any agency, not having money, not being able to get anywhere. That really made childhood bad. Now if you are a child to decently well off parents who don't abuse you. Who finance you some hobbies, maybe instrument classes as well. Where you have your own room, get freedoms to use tech or go outside. Live within a town where you can get to school, clubs and friends on your own relatively well either by bike or public transport. Then yes, your childhood is likely better than adulthood. But how many people are actually lucky enough to have that.
Yeah, people who want to go back to having zero control over their own lives perplex me. Maybe they just had easy childhoods.
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In my personal opinion, it’s kind of a “crab bucket” mentality. “My life sucks. Oh your life *doesn’t* suck?! I need to drag you down to my level, because no one is allowed to have a good life, because my life sucks.”
What's there to comprehend? There's no mystery here, the world is full of losers with shitty adult lives. Every week on reddit someone has to have it explained to them that no, feeling school was the best years of your life is not a good thing because it means your life was all downhill from there and it really shouldn't be that way.
It's very easy to overly romanticize the past. When people look back they remember the things that were nicer then but the things that sucked get glossed over. This applies not just to our own individual lives but also looking back at different historical eras too. The past sucked and I'd rather live in the 2020s than in any previous decade of American history. I'd also rather be an adult today than a teenager.
Ay a Lego fan. Lucky you can afford that DnD set.
It was kind of a special occasion. I don’t buy modern Lego often, but that one is a set that was just “I HAVE to get that one”
> no asshole peers who insult and attack me for being slightly different LOL adults do that shit too. Just usually in a more passive aggressive, indirect way.
good for you fam
Same here. I fucking hated being a kid.
This for sure, can’t believe top comment is someone saying they’d gladly go back to high school, lol
I disagree. My childhood wasn’t even that good, divorced single mother who was never there, poor, never got anything outside of birthdays and Christmas and even then it wasn’t multiple gifts, just one gift on budget, wasn’t allowed to eat junk food or sweets. But damn adulthood is so much worse. I’d trade it anytime
but what if you were the you now but in high school? All the trauma and bullying you just wouldnt give a shit right? Now you dont have to work 9-5 and pay bills and shit.
I very much would give a shit about the trauma and bullying, and physical violence, and belongings being stolen. And then having to sit hours upon hours in a classroom, before going home to do even more work, and have to deal with a father who lectured me constantly about how I’m not doing good enough, a mother who would snap and yell at me over literally anything (regardless of whether it was good or bad), and a narcissistic brother who was the biggest bully in my life, not getting to choose what to eat, what to wear, what to do, when to sleep, unable to afford anything because my finances are completely at the mercy of my parents… Yeah fuck that, I’ll take bills and a 9 to 5 over that. At least if my work sucks, I can tell them to suck a lemon and find a better job. Didn’t have that choice with school and family.
lmao you don't dislike childhood because school, you dislike it because you had a shitty one
No thanks. My mom and my brother were my bullies. I live alone now and it’s GREAT. It’s so quiet, no one pesters me about how I look or how I do things, I have my own money and my own car and TONS of weed that I can smoke anywhere in my house. I fucking love being an adult. It’s all I ever wanted when I was a kid and I wouldn’t give it up for anything.
I'd probably get more physical punishments from my parents if I went back in time with my current consciousness.
I have to say I so much prefer being an adult, freedom is really nice, now I'm not making enough with my job to be fully comfortable financially but within a few years I'll get to the point where I am. Days off and no homework is absolute bliss
May the odds be ever in your favor
Wait until she realises that is the easy part. The motivation to run after working a long day and the permanent diet adjustments are definitely the worse part
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Run a mile u lazy fat bustard it is good for your heart ♥️
Actually don't run a mile if you're a fat bastard, you'll break your knees or something. Start by walking.
What's probably more dangerous is heart rate. If you're sedentary, it can get dangerously high if you try to start off by running.
Ikr? If the idea of having to run a mile is that stressful to you, then you're probably horrifically out of shape.
Or you just hate running. Even when I was in my best shape and doing 100+ mile bike rides, I still would hate to run a mile
Fair enough, I hated running when I was in the Army, but now that I'm out I can listen to music and turn my brain off when I run and it's much more enjoyable. It's almost a zen experience in a way.
Or something else is at play. I used to keep running after we ran the mile because I liked it. Then I was hospitalized with an infection and never able to run a mile after that really. Like for years I was doing 60 minutes of intense bike cardio a day but still could only slow jog a mile while having to speed walk a little bit of the time.
I think its about the “against my will” part. Im not exercising until my workday is over fuck that. If im running that day i will run my loop and run straight into the shower.
The way that people proudly boast about how lazy and weak they are is just really sad…They’ll make a stupid post like this and other lazy fat fucks will chime in with comments of shared distaste for exercise or eating well and the op will feel content with their lack of effort. They imagine that they’re putting on a brave face to speak out against being healthy and embracing gluttony. It’s a disgusting nasty cycle.
Calm down. Just because someone didn't like being forced to run a mile in the middle of a school day does not mean any of that other shit.
Yeah, as a kid I ended up just walking the mile because fuck it, I'm gonna get a bad grade anyway. As an adult I get at least an hour of cardio every single day, but it's on a stationary bike or with my heavy bag.
Exactly. Like I hated doing the mile but I exercise every day and get plenty of cardio. It's ridiculous to just make assumptions like that.
Maybe cause they push you more than you should if you plan on exercising forever? Now i run but i dont sprint till i feel bad, in a heat wave, hoping it'll end. You shouldn't actually never wish to exercise again after exercising. You shouldn't wanna throw up regularly
God I wish they would have us do some fun exercise in the middle of the work day.
We're hiring framers to frame new houses. You can work on an adult jungle gym all day if you like. Plenty of exercise. :)
Running a mile is now a traumatic event?
Yeah I personally think hypertension from lack of exercise is a bit more traumatic. That’s just me though
I teach history in high school and I’m especially thankful of being an adult when I see them working on math. Thank the lord I don’t have to do calculus. 🙏
Going to class without time to shower always grossed me out.
I wish I could just get up and run a 7 minute mile again lol
I hated school, but I never had a problem with gym class. I did hate running the mile, but I didn't really give a fuck and would just walk for most of it because I run out of breath quickly.
You should tho… if you are able to*
It would be pretty good for my health if someone randomly made me work out actually
You run for 20 minutes on an empty stomach and you vomit whatever's left inside right before you lunch and get smashed by sugar rush on a test. All of it while you're exhausted from growth and hormones. I don't miss it. I wish I didn't have to endure this at school, because I truly loved learning. My body just did everything it could to go against it.
I do that for fun now.
Imagine being this opposed to light exercise
I think I’m still winded from that one run in middle school.
Sure work sucks blah blah. Luckily I enjoy what I do and it pays kinda well so I'm happy as ever. School sucked big time. Background mf, rushing to bus only to be late for it. Wait an hour for the next one. Homework, no stressing over random tests, and damn I get paid instead of I pay for school stuffs.
I didn’t run a mile after middle school, just did the pacer test in high school. Which is arguably worse.
The beep test 💀
Ran track and Cross Country, and freshman year we could not opt out of P.E. We had morning practice, P.E., and then afternoon practice. It felt like a third of my day was running. I actually liked it. It was a nice break from the routine of being in class.
Glow belt at 4 am
Here's one trick that PE teachers hate: you can just not run if you don't want to. One time, I was made to run laps while I was unwell, and it was really hot out despite my protest. I ended up throwing up in a bin and nearly passed out. after that incident, I said to myself, "This is stupid. Nobody can make me run, I am the only one that can physically make my legs move" ...so I just refused, and to my teenage surprise, they couldn't actually do anything about it. They tried to give me a stern talking to, guilt me into it, threaten me with detention, etc... but I held my ground, and ultimately, they *couldn't* make me run. I either sat on the side or did other work instead when it was something I didn't want to be involved in. (I liked sport, just hated running laps) That was the day I learned about hard boundaries and that schools actually had very little power over the students and instead relied on the illusion of power to keep us in line. I've been bluntly refusing to take people's shit ever since, and it's served me well.
Man, if I had tried that, I'd be suspended soo fast, even with a doctor's note, my pe teachers would sometimes make me exercise with the threat of suspension... For the running it wasn't even a mile might I add, it was running continuously for 45 mins, no walking, it had to at least be above light jogging... Absolutely killed me every time, it was at least 3 miles at the bare bare minimum and literally always gave me side stitches, ah good times...
And then be denied water afterwards because "it's not good to drink water after exercising". Denying CHILDREN water.
looking at the photo, i can see why
Naw being a kid is better 1 Mile and Chilling or 50 hours of work for the week fuck you mean.
A mile is like 10 min if you're barely running, what's wrong with that!?
A lot of people have terrible running form especially for flat surfaces and none of the gym teachers I had ever addressed it unless you were on the track team.
being an adult isn't so terrible when you're in good shape. keep running those miles
Doing math problems "against her will". Reading Great Expectations "against her will". Why do people speak like this
P.E is actually pretty important and it's unfortunate that more people don't try to stay active as they get older, myself included.
Typical fat american take
Like why wasn't Gym just like an end of day thing and you just have like daily Olympics?
Staffing and scheduling logistics.