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What was your least favorite PE activity in school?

Running on the track. I had no problem running around as part of a sport but I detested doing the timed mile test.

Hey, you get to run a mile today!

I honestly loved PE, but on that random day where we had to just run ugh.

Square dancing

Bump.

I was in cross country, so mile days were my jam. I guess the volleyball days were my least favorite I can think of, since I had shit form and my hands always hurt afterward.

I forgot what it was called but you would run from court side to the other on a buzzer, each round the timer for the buzzer gets shorter and the teachers would count how many rounds you would last, that shit killed your sides bro

pick4six posted...

I forgot what it was called but you would run from court side to the other on a buzzer, each round the timer for the buzzer gets shorter and the teachers would count how many rounds you would last, that shit killed your sides bro

Fitnessgram Pacer Test?

I don't think I ever lasted more than 6 laps.

pick4six posted...

I forgot what it was called but you would run from court side to the other on a buzzer, each round the timer for the buzzer gets shorter and the teachers would count how many rounds you would last, that shit killed your sides bro

This one. I think it was called the pacer test or whatever? I even liked running but that shit sucked.

VGAddict90 posted...

Fitnessgram Pacer Test?

I don't think I ever lasted more than 6 laps.

THE FITNESSGRAM PACER TEST IS A MULTISTAGE AEROBIC CAPACITY TEST

pick4six posted...

I forgot what it was called but you would run from court side to the other on a buzzer, each round the timer for the buzzer gets shorter and the teachers would count how many rounds you would last, that shit killed your sides bro

That's a beep test.

I loved most things in PE, except cross country running and the high jump. Cross Country, you could at least sneak off for a cigarette. High jump, I just could not do. Even the short, fat kids were better than me. I gave up trying and sat it out.

We just called it gym.

I hated everything in PE that related to sports/team stuff/group activities. So I enjoyed anything where we had to do something for a solo grade like run a mile in 20 mins or using workout equipment.

Wrestling was probably my least favorite activity.

Basically everything that wasn't dodgeball. Like, sure, all other sports probably have merits, but I want to hit people with balls as hard as possible.

VGAddict90 posted...

Fitnessgram Pacer Test?

I don't think I ever lasted more than 6 laps.

Yep that one, I did low 40s when I was a little kid and kids were talking about a 5th grader that did 99 laps and thought it was impossible until the end of the school year they let the little kids watch the 5th grades do the Pacer in PE

running

in high school we had 90 minute periods and they made us run for the first 40 minutes of gym

Showering
(I realize it's not an activity per se, but it's the most hated thing)

For actual activity, the mile.

ai123 posted...

That's a beep test.

I loved most things in PE, except cross country running and the high jump. Cross Country, you could at least sneak off for a cigarette. High jump, I just could not do. Even the short, fat kids were better than me. I gave up trying and sat it out.

It's the beep test or the pacer, back in the day they didn't have music playing you just waited for the beep. On YouTube you see all sorts of remixes with music lmao

For whatever reason, we had to wrestle on rainy days. Fortunately, it was SoCal, so it only happened about 3x in 4 years.

At my school you were excused from PE if you did an after school sport, and that's the only reason why I did any sports.

Either gymnastics or dancing. For dancing I got paired with a fat girl so I was holding her fold. Gymnastics wasnt bad as a unit but at the end you had to do a routine for the teacher which was cringey.

itachi15243 posted...

This one. I think it was called the pacer test or whatever? I even liked running but that shit sucked.

DrizztLink posted...

THE FITNESSGRAM PACER TEST IS A MULTISTAGE AEROBIC CAPACITY TEST

yup

Dodgeball, I mean I sucked at catching and those kids would bean me really hard. One time I ended up in the nurse's office after taking a fastball to the face.
The_Popo posted...

Hey, you get to run a mile today!

Oh yeah, those days always sucked ass too. In 9th grade I was lucky enough that there was somebody who was actually less fit than me but he moved and then I was stuck being the loser that ruined it for everybody by taking 15 minutes to finish and still feeling like I was going to vomit by the end.

Volleyball because my school was really good in it so they used the gym class as extra practice time for the kids on the squad, and then those who weren't just played rec/fuckaround. It meant there was always a superteam that stomped us, and there was virtually zero skills development because the gym teachers just focussed on the team kids. Also, it hurt my god damn arms.

Gym Class Activity tier list, spanning grades K - 12:

S tier: Ball hockey, European Handball
A tier: Dodgeball, Weightlifting, Wrestling
B tier: Basketball, The Parachute game, Soccer-Baseball/Kickball
C tier: Lacrosse, Soccer, Flag Football, Distance Running
D tier: Square dancing, The Beep Test, Baseball
F tier: Volleyball, Health+Sexuality class

Lacrosse would be higher but very few people could functionally play so it made it lame. Baseball is so low for the same reason, plus its just too slow // to much standing around for it to be a good gym activity. Edit: added distance running. it's only redeeming factor was we got to go out and about through a nearby forest to trail run, or, around the neighbourhood, so it was cool to change it up. But it was also rain-or-shine (or snow), and i have not-so-fond memories of jogging in +5C weather with snow flurries/drizzle along a puddly sidewalk

We had to do gymnastics and I fucked up my knee and had to be in crutches for 2 weeks >_> Fuck gymnastics

Rope climb. I hated how it ripped up my hands. I liked everything else in PE honestly, but tbh I also just used to skip PE and go smoke weed in the bathroom

Any form of ballroom dancing, square dancing, etc. It was humiliating and it always turned into a cluster fuck. I cant believe that the curriculum forces something a ridiculous as square dancing.

We ran like soldiers and didnt complain. We would run every day for eight to ten minutes as a warmup (easily a mile) and we were forced to run for the entire class many times. Its a wonder that I was so out of shape in those times

Plain ol running.

Both heart monitor stuff (had to put on a belt and a watch and then walk/run the whole time. The monitors were not comfortable and they were of course worn by tons of different people during the day/year and not cleaned) and square dancing.

Probably softball, which we played with a big ragball. Problem was some of the kids would take the game so damn seriously, like there was money on it or something. If you dropped the ball or messed up they would threaten to kick your ass.

PR's PE was just an extended recess with the occasional attempt at some organized sport, usually volleyball, that didn't last more than a week before it was given up.

Payzmaykr posted...

Any form of ballroom dancing, square dancing, etc. It was humiliating and it always turned into a cluster fuck. I cant believe that the curriculum forces something a ridiculous as square dancing.

it seemed lame and "[MODS TRY AGAIN LOL]" at the time because this was the late 90s but looking back it was a great activity. We did it during the same years as school dances

Rope climb. I could never do it.

Kajagogo posted...

Rope climb. I could never do it.

How dare you reference Grabthar.

Swimming

I could be in a pool all day and liked water polo but doing laps was not enjoyable.

locker room showers

Gymnastics
I can tough out a run or play a sport adequately enough for PE. I can climb a rope or do some sort of pushup challenge.

I'm not flexible though. I've never been flexible and I'm never gonna be flexible. Doing rolls and stuff would leave me sore for weeks after. Fuck that shit. If I'm gonna do gymnastics, let me jump on that spring board or some shit. Dont make me do weird stuff.

When we had to do our physicals in middle school, the school nurse who did the hernia tests was the mom of a fellow classmate. So a lot of kids were bragging to said classmate that his mom grabbed their balls. One even admitted that he got a boner when it happened.

lmao

rope climbing

oh yeah rope climbing sucked too

I'm afraid of heights so I only ever went halfway up

me too. then i was scared to let go

Movement of any kind

Anything on floor scooters.

run the mile

I was a cross country and track person in school. I hated running the mile in gym class anyway.

theAteam posted...

Running on the track. I had no problem running around as part of a sport but I detested doing the timed mile test.

Yeah, I hate running. I don't drive and walk everywhere. I can walk a long way pretty quickly. But running? Ya, fuck that

Soccer, it's always fuckin' soccer everyday.

bigtiggie23 posted...

Probably softball, which we played with a big ragball. Problem was some of the kids would take the game so damn seriously, like there was money on it or something. If you dropped the ball or messed up they would threaten to kick your ass.

change this to flag or touch football then its pretty much the same. You had a few kids who took it way too seriously. Was my turn to hike the ball to whoever was the rotated quarterback, kept screaming obscenities at me because I tossed it too high, too hard, or too low. Freaking relax man.

I always loved PE. Even sports that I wasn't as good at like basketball were still fun to me.

Oh wait, floor hockey. Running around like that was always dumb to me and defeated the purpose without skates.