I'm a little embarrassed!
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Okay, I'm a lot embarrassed! I am a special education teacher and one of the classes I teach is Recreation. Here is the course description: This course promotes lifetime participation in physical fitness. Students will be introduced to various recreation and leisure activities that can be performed individually or with a group. Focus will not be on competitive team sports. Students will be able to apply learned activities to develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle.
So basically this class is a gym class. I have no gym to take the kids to so we do everything in my classroom. I recently bought Tae Bo Kicks. The DVD is meant for kids. I thought it would be great for this class. I'm embarrassed because I could barely do some of the exercises. Here I am the teacher whose supposed to be teaching these kids about life long physical fitness and I'm fat, over-weight, and sedentary. Did I just say I AM sedentary. I forgot to tell ya I started back at the Y this week. I went today and yesterday!! So proud of myself. I'm also proud to say that LH went to the Y today too and worked out!
So basically this class is a gym class. I have no gym to take the kids to so we do everything in my classroom. I recently bought Tae Bo Kicks. The DVD is meant for kids. I thought it would be great for this class. I'm embarrassed because I could barely do some of the exercises. Here I am the teacher whose supposed to be teaching these kids about life long physical fitness and I'm fat, over-weight, and sedentary. Did I just say I AM sedentary. I forgot to tell ya I started back at the Y this week. I went today and yesterday!! So proud of myself. I'm also proud to say that LH went to the Y today too and worked out!
2 comments:
Hi - and congrats on joining the Y. Last year I had some musing relating to my dance and yoga instructors - both of which are over-weight. How odd that I invest in exercise activity from someone who clearly does not exercise. BUT, both of them are great. They have patience and pay attention to teaching the poses we do. THEY are great teachers.
I would relax and go with it. If people want to judge they will, but you are teaching and that is the most important part. The buff weight-trainer or the cross-country runner may look healthy, but that doesn't mean they can teach. Teaching is the gift and the fact that you are learning and setting out to live by example is such a positive message.
Oh, and the other thing I'll say - I really appreciate dance schools and other sporting venues that don't think exercise is just for the fit. You may just give someone who is over-weight the confidence to participate where they may have otherwise not. And who knows where they will go with that. That's the great thing about teaching - you never know where your circle of influence can reach.
Oh, I would add that both my instructors do exercise in their respective fields. Over-weight does NOT mean out of shape. Let us know how this new venture turns out.
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