PE did you love it or loathe it??

I loved it.

Was in school swimming and netball team.

I had a free pass for the local swimming pool and spent hours training.

Loved athletics and was frequently picked for competing in county wide meetings etc.

I am an outdoorsy type of person - still am and never happier than being outside.

Saying that like others we had one ridiculous shouty sports mistress, but I let most of it go over my head. I always felt sorry for her.

I hated PE. We had a horrible poky changing room that always smelled of sweat and those rubber plimsolls. I did love ice skating on a Saturday afternoon at our local rink. I wish I'd pursued it further after I left school.

Hated PE. I still hate any form of physical exercise - I push myself to go out for a short daily walk. What can I say - my little grandsons call me Nannylazybones - I love it 😍

I’m going to join the loathed team. We had 1 period a week in 3rd & 4th form, oh the relief to reach the senior school and NO phys ed. Detested the baggy school rompers we had to wear, safe to say all the girls did. But strangely loved tennis and netball and swimming. Still remember the 6 or so weeks every year spent on gymnastics, cringeworthy! Dancing in the winter months was fun, so not all bad.

If you opted out of PE then were caught talking as the teacher was talking, you got the slipper. Made you think twice !! If you were not white it was worse.

I hated it, especially having to go into the shower that had no curtain. I found it very embarrassing.

I hated it because I was useless. I eventually found that I was quite good as a shooter in netball, but not good enough to be in the school team. In my last year at school I quite liked tennis, but wasn't very good at it. Nowadays I really enjoy Tai Chi and feel better for it.
It was a great shock when I gave birth to a child who could do it all. County level gymnast, held the high jump record at her school for some years after she left, had children at her primary school refusing to race against her because she always won, and took to riding as if she'd been born in the saddle. Now her youngest son is just the same! Star of his football team, plays badminton and tennis, rides his bike for miles, and his place at grammar school is partly due to his sporting talents. His brother is perfectly happy doing none of it.

Loathed most sports and was only any good at netball, providing I was goal shooter. Still no interest in sport, nor have my DDs but my GC are both exceptionally sporty - taking after their paternal GGF who was a County Swimmer.

I’m another one who loved PE (we just called it Games)

I played hockey, rounders and tennis for the school - earning your ‘colours’ was something we all aspired to and was vice captain of the swimming team.
There were only three of us in my form who were sporty but I used to feel a huge sense of pride and joy when my friends who hated games would turn up at matches and yell their support. It was the only school where I was able to stay for five years due to being an RAF brat so making lasting friendships meant a lot to me.

I hated PE and games, I was hopeless at everything. And Miss W--- hated me because I was useless. One girl was brilliant at everything, so was obviously teacher`s pet.

There were 28 girls in my form and when hockey teams were picked I was always in the six left out. What a crazy system, so humiliating. Showers were even worse, put me off for life. I didn’t mind netball and athletics but I wasn’t any good. Gym was awful. I did try, but when I saw it didn’t get me anywhere I stopped trying.

Loathed both gym and games. We played lacrosse, not hockey. In those days the lacrosse sticks were wooden and heavy. It was all a total waste of time for me, and soon the sadistic teachers stopped bothering with me. I wasn’t worth the effort. Mostly I got out of it, anyway, by one means or another. Rounders was the best, because I used to be backstop and could spend the time making daisy chains.

I wasn’t short of exercise because I did ballet, which I adored. Much to my delight, Margot Fonteyn also said she had hated games at school, so I was in good company! (She had been to an English girls’ school in Shanghai, where she lived as a child,)


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Loved netball and tennis but disliked hockey.
I was never a fast runner and couldn't jump nor did I ever manage to climb the ropes right to the top.
We did a kind of music and movement too, wearing awful tunics with matching baggy knickers.

It was disappointing to go to college to find neither gym nor games were part of the curriculum.

I loved it and was pretty good at them all except swimming. I've continued to do some sport/exercise all my life and it's given me lots of pleasure and a fair few injuries! Both my daughters have enjoyed a range of sports too and my grandchildren also.

I loved it, our PE teachers were fun, I was at a all Girls school that was quite progressive for the late 60's early 70's.

I wasn't a brilliant. But a reasonably good all rounder at most sports. I Played Hockey for the School and was a OK Sprinter in Athletics.
Loved it especially in the summer when we, were allowed to use the big Grass Quad, which we jointly shared with the Boys school next door We could also it use during the Lunch time in the summer, with the lads joining us.

Hated PE as I fell over a lot . Couldn't catch or hit a ball . I had no co ordination . Swimming I sank went swimming on the surface but ok swimming under water. And the inforced showers was a nightmare the games teacher would watch us all go through it. Every one made sure their period lasted a week to get out of having a shower.

But funny enough when I started to exercise in 2018 I found I loved it. Go to sit fit and move it or lose it classes every week and exercise at home .

Absolutely loved it. Played hockey for the school and went for County trials. Played until I had my first baby.

Really enjoyed tennis, gymnastics and most athletics.

I was in the school swimming team too.
Best days of my life.

Loved everything but netball which I was hopeless at. Gymnastics was my favourite. I struggled academically so it was a small oasis of joy instead of the usual struggles.

Loved it. Loved Hockey and captained the team.
I was in the school swimming team and proud to say we had a lot of success. I was always the start with back stroke in the relay race.
I was taught to dive by an army pt instructor who married the girl next door. I taught my granddaughter the exact same way.

We had PE and Games. Both filled me with dread. I'm awful at sport and therefore not remotely interested in any of it. The humiliation was immense. Standing on a hockey pitch dressed in navy blue knickers as a young teenager, legs blue with the cold and the pain when hit with a stick (usually in revenge for being useless). In PE the very idea of launching myself into the air and leaping over a wooden horse was quite frankly terrifying. I don't think anyone should be forced to perform such stunts in the name of exercise.

One day I spoke to our Games teacher and explained that it was all a complete waste of her time and mine. However, I appreciated that I needed exercise and fresh air (although I had plenty at home as we owned a smallholding). I offered to pick up all the litter around the sports field, which was huge, and surely that was a better usage of my time. Amazingly she agreed. Common sense prevailed!

JudyBloom

I didn't care much for P.E. at school, the teaching was so strict.

Same here. We had to wear regulation bottle green knickers under our gym skirts and each time before PE we were made to line up and lift our skirts. Was just horrid.

I didn't care much for P.E. at school, the teaching was so strict.

Showers were humiliating.
Played netball, but because I’m tall I was always goal defence when I wanted to be a shooter, yes hockey was freezing, but Miss had warm clothes on!
Trampolining I was always a spotter, ready to ‘catch’ a bouncing erratic person, I think I was too tall and gangly tombe actually allowed on there.
So, no, didn’t really enjoy it, but did it

I loved sports at school. I played netball, hockey and tennis for the school and swam as well.
I played a lot of sports until I was about 40 then it petered off.
One of my daughters was very sporty, the other not so much.

FriedGreenTomatoes2

Aveline I trust that isn’t a euphemism. 😂

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