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On school PE and my relationship with exercise.

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Sue Reed
Mar 23, 2023
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I had a Twitter post that went viral this week. I’d shared a picture of a wooden gym vaulting box, brown wood with sections rising to a dirty leather brown top, and asked the question, did anyone else feel triggered by this picture? I tweeted: ‘I truly believe that the mental barriers I face towards exercise stem from this instrument of humiliation and …

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