This week’s podcast explores the notion of health-related exercise (HRE) in education and argues that we have taken a sport-based and not a health-based approach to HRE, to date, in schools. In this way we have positioned performance above participation and prioritised ‘the moment’ of activity over the potential of lifetime engagement. Until we move from the ‘here and now’ of sports and start to build for the future then HRE will continue to be seen as a supplement rather than the mainstay of school physical education.
