Only eight minutes and 32 seconds and I would be racing towards the gymnasium for P.E. ... Fast forward fifteen years and the healthy patterns that I learned from my grade school gym classes are still an important part of my life. ... It is proven that children need physical exercise every day, not just once every other day for forty minutes. The Institute of Medicine reports that all schools should provide at the minimum of 60 minutes per day of vigorous or moderate intensity physical activity. They recommend that 30-45 minutes of this physical activity should come from gym classes. ...

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