Most of the young guys would love to play football instead of learning math. So somehow like this we could define PE - kick the ball away and then chase it - whatever "meaningful" activity other than boring listening to stuff never-to-be-used-in-real-life...
However, not everybody at high school is so fanatic about "team sports".
Activities like ice hockey watching, basketball scanting or football cursing one could label as sport shows for enthousiastic fan base, which however displays overwhelming disproportion in the percentage of players and spectators. Here, everyone considers themselves as active participant - in some way :)
On the other side, physical activities which require very personal involvement of each and every participant, at the same time incorporate a truly "team spirit" - support for other athletes(online/ next to on the playground), who are viewed even by the more trained or experienced as "brothers" - means everyone is competitor against their own peak performance, inspired and cheered by the spectators, so mutually aspiring to push the overall performance higher.
Definitely, the aspect of having strangers to stop and watch you, indicates an urge for recognition. But I sense here a more profound need for having impact, to live a mission, to pass a personal empowerment; leaving behind any excuses for being idle, not having appropriate equipment, missing a coach, lacking money for gym fees, living too remote to commute to regularly held events and so on...
For many in "developed countries" trivia, having a smartphone or a stationary internet access enables anyone to search for and follow free tutorials, immerse in reviews and fish out worthy observations.
Thus fast-forwarding theorethical learning process.
Naturally, practice shall not lag behind! On the contrary, concentrating on the actual exercise pursuing development of certain skill, opens up the imagination and creativity to try and "invent" new routines - which are our very own! At some point, even the muscle straining tourture alone at the park or among other in the gym, starts to make sense, to show results, which one is proud of. Suddenly, one is not ashamed of looking ridiculous while running or showing a strange figure while performing an exercise - because the consequent self-awereness is based on noticable results.
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