The Lahser Physical Education Department offers all students the opportunity to take part in a variety of physical activities and to learn the skills and knowledge needed to develop and sustain an active lifestyle in a supportive, safe environment. All classes include the three components of fitness: cardiovascular, flexibility and strength training.
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Did you know:
There has been a 300% increase in youth obesity since 1970?
Health risks associated with obesity cost $75 billion per year?
Enrolling in a Physical Education class every semester, students will develop the knowledge, attitudes, skills, behaviors and confidence needed to be physically active for life.
"Exercise and recreation....are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary, because health is worth more than learning."
Thomas Jefferson
"Because physical activity is so directly related to...maintaining a high quality of life, we must accord it the same level of attention that we give other public health practices that affect the entire nation."
A. Manley, Surgeon General, 1996.
"Physical education and physical activity contribute to the maintenance of positive interpersonal relationships and reduces the incidence of depression, anxiety and fatigue.
Meyers & Wietzman
"Vigorous physical activity can help reduce anxiety, tension, depression and reactivity to stressors and help students increase concentration and improve scores in math, reading and writing."
Kolbe, Green and Forey