{"id":4762,"date":"2010-01-10T06:08:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T06:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/new-villain-in-the-obesity-epidemic-mean-gym-teachers-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2010-01-10T06:08:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T06:08:06","slug":"new-villain-in-the-obesity-epidemic-mean-gym-teachers-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/new-villain-in-the-obesity-epidemic-mean-gym-teachers-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"New Villain in the Obesity Epidemic: Mean Gym Teachers | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"gym-teacher\"My high school physical education teacher had a nickname for everyone. (Mine was “Little One” because I was the runt of the class. Better than “Chicken Bones,” as one scrawny boy was dubbed.) It didn’t bother me, but according to research<\/a> recently published in Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise<\/em>, I dodged a bullet–or maybe the dodgeball.<\/p>

Billy Strean, a professor at the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, says “a negative lifelong attitude towards physical activity can be determined by either a good or a bad experience, based on the personal characteristics of the coach or instructor. For example, negative experiences may come from a teacher who has low energy, is unfair and\/or someone who embarrasses students.”<\/p>

<\/span>One person in Strean’s study shared this: “I am a 51-year-old-woman whose childhood experiences with sports, particularly as handled in school, were so negative that even as I write this my hands are sweating and I feel on the verge of tears. I have never experienced the humiliation nor felt the antipathy toward any other aspect of life as I do toward sports.”<\/p>

To help combat the obesity epidemic and give people a healthier attitude towards exercise<\/a>, Strean suggests coaches and teachers emphasize fun and, until kids are in their teens, consider not keeping scores.<\/p>

Not sure how my high school classmate “Ace” would have felt about that….<\/p>

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