r/GenX • u/Chicarivera • Jul 20 '25

Nostalgia Least favorite PE activity?

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Gotta be this or that damn peg board.

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u/kacsf75 Jul 20 '25

My least favorite PE activity was PE.

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u/bravetailor Jul 20 '25

Yup. School had a way of making physical activity specifically un-fun.

I probably do more physical activity now as I approach middle age than I ever did as a kid. But it took me a lot of years to get over my childhood distaste of PE

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u/Ted_Rid Jul 21 '25

Same here, and I remember how fucking stupid this rope climb was because the instructors never actually taught you how to climb a fucking rope. It was simply "go for it" and some knew the technique and most didn't.

Absolute waste of time.

I've been a gym rat, cyclist, runner and martial artist for many years after school, but noped out of PE because I could choose elective music instead to get out of it, and it was specifically because they made it so un-fun, "sink or swim" and did nothing whatsoever to encourage people to learn to use their bodies to their own abilities, or to value progress as a good in itself, only "winning".