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This isn't your mother's gym class.

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| December 05, 2003 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Kimberly Sweet

KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ In the basement of a Lee's Summit, Mo., school, seventh-graders pumped iron, ran on treadmills and took strides on elliptical machines as pop music thumped in the background.

It was no health club. It was gym class.

Bernard Campbell Middle School students tested their upper-body strength by scaling a rock wall instead of a lone rope hanging from the gym ceiling. Rather than competing to tag a person out during dodge ball, students challenged each other to maintain their target heart rate.

It's a new view on physical education _ one that is taking hold in schools nationally as childhood obesity threatens to shorten life spans. Instead of focusing on sports and athleticism, physical…

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