Many high schools offer students with a range of extracurricular activities as well as school courses that promote exercise and healthy living. Although a wide variety of these programs are provided in schools at their convenience, many students tend not to participate in them because they are turned off by the idea that exercise is hard work. Since there is no easy and perfect way to make the average student turn themselves from a couch potato to a healthy athlete, force would be the best answer to the frail and obese population. Physical educations for grades eleven and twelve should be made mandatory in order to reduce the weak and the heavy in Canada.

Exercise is important in daily life because it refreshes the mind, allowing one to be clear-headed. This is especially helpful in learning because one can focus at school without dosing off during class time. Playing badminton before school helps me rouse to action for school as well as stay warm on cold winter days. Exercising daily can improve a person's reflexes, and the ability to receive information in the brain improves as well. At the end of a long, hard-worked school day, a student can exercise to relieve any stress and pressure built up.

Making physical education mandatory for senior high school students can help them keep and stay fit. Many students, especially girls complain of being overweight. This is due mostly to junk foods and video or computer gaming. P.E. can help many female students diet in a healthy way, avoiding the risks of anorexia and other similar illnesses. With a regular exercise routine, scrawny boys can shed their bony appearance and gain some muscle mass and thus, they will be prepared for any future part-time job they acquire.

There are countless advantages to making physical education mandatory at school, such as the ability to reduce the risk of heart disease, keep joints flexible, reduce effects of aging, reduce depression, relief stress, and improve endurance. All these benefits lead to one major benefit, which is the ability to help one maintain a healthy lifestyle. Although making physical education a mandatory courses will reduce the number of courses a student can choose, it is an effective way to help students stay healthy and fit. Perhaps with physical educations set as one of the compulsory courses, everyone will finish the race.

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