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New pulse of PE: Heart-rate monitors motivate kids for exercise at school.
Byline: Niesha Lofing
May 9--Antelope Crossing Middle School students don't bemoan PE class.
Quite the opposite. There are smiles, joking, even laughter.
On a recent Friday, one class played an energetic capture-the-flag-type game while farther down the field, another launched into a game of ultimate Frisbee.
One group of students jogged around the perimeter of the field, some chatting animatedly as they completed a 20-minute run.
All had one thing in common -- they were wearing heart-rate monitors and doggedly checking them to make sure they were in their target heart-rate zone.
"This has been a huge motivator for them," Jaime Hanan, a PE teacher at Antelope Crossing, said of the monitors.
Antelope Crossing is one of two schools in the four-county region participating in a comprehensive fitness-based technology program from Polar, a company that manufactures heart-rate monitors. Valley High School in Elk Grove has been in the Polar program for seven years. Some schools not in…
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