Gym teacher makes 9th Graders do Insanity Workout
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I think that kids should stick to team sports in their gym class. I think that things such as soccer, basketball, baseball or jogging would be appropriate. It might be a little too much for them to try something like that especially if their fitness level is not that great.0
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Um, who cares? It's not like they will keel over and die from doing Insanity. Sheesh.0
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I think it's a great idea to introduce Insanity to a PE class. The mix workouts and movements adds a lot of fun to the kids and gives them a challenge. However, I think it's vitally important that the PE teacher doesn't push the kids to keep up with the rhythm and complete the sessions. It's REALLY intense. Best to let kids do what they can and at their own pace.0
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I agree with what most of these people are saying. Most kids won't put forth the effort to hurt themselves doing Insanity, as impressionable as they may be, and the few who will probably pay attention to how to do it correctly.
I don't believe what some of you are saying, though. I mean, ARE YOU FREAKEN KIDDING ME? Potentially dangerous? You don't need to 'be informed' if your kid is doing Insanity because for your teenager, ITS SAFER THAN FOOTBALL, or any other contact sports that parents have had their children playing since they were 6. Your backyard can be more dangerous, so can doing community service, OR EVEN running track.
It all comes down to this: You, as a parent, sign a waiver in the begin of each school year during which you chose to enroll your child into a physical activity of some sort. It says that you acknowledge all risks and hazards of your child participating in activities and the school and/or teachers cannot be held responsible for injury. WHICH MEANS- if you, as a parent, want to know EVERYTHING your child is doing for physical activity at school, you better get your butt to the coach's office and get a full list of crap for the whole year so you're not wasting your time. But instead of being a psycho parent, just trust the coaches because honestly, PE coaches don't really care. They aren't yelling in your kids ear like a drill sergeant trying to 'push them'. sports coaches are much harder trainers, and kids are more likely to be injured participating in sports.
Insanity is a tough workout. I commend anybody who tries it. As for kids, good for them if they try, but 90% will just 'go with the motions', and it will probably be the only workout your kid gets all year. So good for that PE teacher for keeping your kid from being sedentary, because if you think a kid doing Insanity or P90X is something to worry about, YOU must not be keeping them fit.
Good luck to all you parents out there who agree. Those who don't care about your kids' fitness- You will be the one they blame later when they're obese.0 -
Few students are so overweight that participating would be harmful. For those that are, use of an HRM provides sufficient monitoring that they can get a workout without overkill.
I was among those that at first blush thought this sounded a little nuts.
Personally, I cannot do insanity because of of the intense foot impact. So I find other ways to workout.
To ban Insanity because a few may find it too hard is wrong.
Here's an alternative for the severely gravitationally impaired students. Spinning class. Gets the heart rate way up without impact on the joints.
If I could do insanity I would. But I don't want any more foot surgeries. :bigsmile:0 -
As you can imagine the kids were struggling after 2 minutes of doing Insanity. Also the teacher plans to do more programs.
After 2 minutes? I'm fat and out of shape and I can outdo that easily. That's pathetic , PATHETIC if that is true.
It's kids, they need mandatory activity. It's too bad we can't use that time to get some decent labor out of them.
Waaaa, my kid went to school and was made to be marginally active.
ETA - this necro was just too good to ignore.0 -
As you can imagine the kids were struggling after 2 minutes of doing Insanity. Also the teacher plans to do more programs.
After 2 minutes? I'm fat and out of shape and I can outdo that easily. That's pathetic , PATHETIC if that is true.
It's kids, they need mandatory activity. It's too bad we can't use that time to get some decent labor out of them.
Waaaa, my kid went to school and was made to be marginally active.
ETA - this necro was just too good to ignore.
Pretty much all kids I know would be laughing after a round of Insanity. It would be hard for them but they could handle more easy.0 -
We learned to juggle in middle school PE ...0
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It seems like way more effort than anyone in my high school would have ever put into gym class. We worked hard at sports we played otherwise, but in gym we just participated enough to pass and socialized mostly.0
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If my gym teacher had made us do Insanity in HS, instead of 6 months of volleyball, I might not be so fat now. It's exercise. I'm sure the teacher isn't expecting them to do it perfectly. There ARE modifications.0
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As you can imagine the kids were struggling after 2 minutes of doing Insanity. Also the teacher plans to do more programs.
After 2 minutes? I'm fat and out of shape and I can outdo that easily. That's pathetic , PATHETIC if that is true.
It's kids, they need mandatory activity. It's too bad we can't use that time to get some decent labor out of them.
Waaaa, my kid went to school and was made to be marginally active.
ETA - this necro was just too good to ignore.
Pretty much all kids I know would be laughing after a round of Insanity. It would be hard for them but they could handle more easy.
Exactly, it's hard, but they can handle it. How could they even learn they could handle it unless they challenged themselves? Besides, I don't need insanity, I have the sufferfest.
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We learned to juggle in middle school PE ...
That would have been cool.0 -
We had a bowling segment in PE. That was actually fun.0
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I think insanity is a great workout! I just had a baby, am a woman and find that the more I do it, the easier it gets!!0
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I would certainly hope that these moves are modified to suit the younger crowd.0
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We learned to juggle in middle school PE ...
That would have been cool.
More than 20 years later, it's still a bonding experience. Any time we have a conversation on FB or get together, it comes up. We also still talk about the ridiculous arobics videos we had to do. Our PE teacher played for the Eagles for a season and another one was Kurt Manwaring's brother and that was the kind of stuff they came up with.
In high school, we had bowling, line dancing and square dancing, just to name a few ...0 -
NOt sure what is wrong with Insanity.
Out of 45 min Gym class your looking at 30min worth of Insanity.
-- You go as fast or as slow as you want.
-- True not all kids can play basket ball, football, baseball, but all kids should be able to jump over a log or two.0 -
I think this is great! Wish I had this teacher in 9th grade.0
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We learned to juggle in middle school PE ...
Beats the lame ars square dancing we were forced to do. I always ended up just sitting because no girl wanted to be seen paired with me :laugh:0 -
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We learned to juggle in middle school PE ...
Beats the lame ars square dancing we were forced to do. I always ended up just sitting because no girl wanted to be seen paired with me :laugh:
We had to do that in high school. Well, we didn't HAVE TO. We got a choice every four weeks, though if you were a freshman or sophomore, you pretty much got stuck with whatever was left because seniors picked first, then juniors and on down. It was the worst part of being a freshman.0 -
We had to do Tae-Bo and I loved Billy Blanks especially when we went into double time
It was a blast. 0 -
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Oh, and also, the high school swim coach called me Lisa for four years.
My name is not Lisa. Or anything close to Lisa. My last name is close to Lisa and he is not the only one who ever made that mistake. He is, however, the only one who made that msitake so consistently and for so long.
Ah, gym class memories ...0 -
Our high schools here in GA, do have these classes as an elective. And HS is from 14-18 yrs of age and the kids love it and are benefiting from these programs. I've seen HS football/Basketball practice have far more intense and grueling programs than insanity.0
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I would certainly hope that these moves are modified to suit the younger crowd.
Actually these workouts are even MORE suited to younger people, such as children, than adults. I've done Insanity workouts and it isn't all that different from the stuff we had to do as a WARMUP to playing organized team sports in elementary school.0 -
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Geez, whatever happened to teaching kids how to play basketball, floor hockey, soccer, volleyball, etc.? It seems to me like their PE teachers are slacking in their curriculum design. While not all kids are great at sports and sure, you will get kids that prefer to do as much standing around as possible rather than participating, you can make 'em do laps! That way, your course at least encourages physical activity without falling back on high-intensity mass-marketed workout videos (that aren't really approved for anyone under 18).
I completely agree with this. If you are a P. E. teacher, then you should have been taught how to encourage physical activity with games and sports that kids that age can do and NOT get exhausted in 2 minutes. as another poster said, that DVD is for adults, not kids still growing. that "teacher" should be ashamed of him/herself.
ALSO........this teacher should have gotten the parents consent before doing this.0 -
Why is the first reaction to always torch the teacher? Anyone with kids (especailly teenagers) knows tha there is a level of drama that goes on when they tell a story about anything that happened in school. Teachers may be teaching insanity during PE, but unless a parent is there to witness, you have no idea if the teacher is bringing it down a notch or showing them different levels of intensity, or even telling them to go at their own pace and take breaks when needed. Grab your pitch forks and torches folks! Time to set this gym teach on fire for doing his/her job. Seriously, I think it's awesome! I hope my kids have their fitness pushed when they are in high school.0
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What's with the revival of old threads???
My gym teacher never sent out permission slips to do workouts in gym, but that was a different time too.
My oldest daughter did PX90 at school in ROTC and she loved it!0
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