online<\/a> and found out that Notre Dame requires two semesters of physical education as a graduation requirement, including a course called, \u201cContemporary Topics for College Students\u201d (which is basically Health class) and various sports classes.\u00a0 And the fitness assessment is indeed required at the beginning and end of the freshman year, requiring, among other things, a 1.5 mile run, sit-ups, and push-ups.\u00a0 (At least they don\u2019t seem to weigh the students.)<\/p>\nSo this leaves me wondering:\u00a0 is this common, or is Notre Dame unique in these requirements, or somewhere in-between?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So this one surprised me:\u00a0 in reading an article, I came across a reference to the overall physical fitness of Notre Dame students compared to their peers (no surprise:\u00a0 they\u2019re much more physically fit and more\u00a0physically active), based on a fitness assessment.\u00a0 So I hunted this down online and found out that Notre Dame requires […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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