IS YOUR PE TEACHER OVERWEIGHT, FAT OR EVEN OBESE?

I am lucky to never come across any of my PE teachers being overweight or worse, OBESE.  That's likely because I had my PE lessons some 30 years ago, before technology took over our life.

Just go spin around your neighborhood school and stay in the gym or basketball court to wait for the PE teacher.  Chances are, he/ she will not be the ideal ambassador of Health and Fitness. He/she is likely to carry a pouch around the waist.  So if the one who is teaching PE is not a walking resemblance of health and fitness, do you expect the kids to?

In many of my presentations, I stated over and over again that PE teacher is probably the toughest teacher in the school because PE teachers do not usually use teaching aid like powerpoints, projector, etc and worst he is subjected to the word "Physical". PE teachers do not normally go into a class with the textbook in one hand and the clipboard and whistle on the other.  He must have all the knowledge and lesson plan at the back of his hand, plus he must not look anything like the one on the right in the attached picture; otherwise, he is not going to make a difference.  In today's society, having a BIG PE teacher becomes an acceptable norm, hence, we have a "bigger population" and "obesity" becomes the world's No. 5 killer.  And, this is the result of us accepting norm. We must reverse that norm.

You can help to reverse.  The next time, you walk into a PE class and the teacher looks like the one on the right in the attached picture, go to the Principal office and ask the questions that you should ask....."Is my PE teacher healthy and Fit? If not, why is he teaching us to be?"