Researchers report that in the typical high school gym class — where there are a few jumping jacks before a halfhearted game of softball — students are active for an average of just 16 minutes.

What she can’t cram into the 8:10 a.m. - 2:55 p.m. school day is gym class. So she’s taking that one minus the gym, and on her own time. The 14-year-old freshman is getting school credit for ...

As a fitness writer, I like to think I practice what I preach here, but of late I’ve been training hard for a Hyrox and it’s made my exercise plans a bit one-dimensional.

Grace Brown’s schedule at West Potomac High School in Northern Virginia is filled with all the usual academics, and she’s packed in Latin, chorus and piano as extras. What she can’t cram ...

Jacob Miller’s gym class isn’t about push-ups or running laps or dodgeball. It’s about computers and Frisbee. Last year, as the tall, cheerful South High School senior neared graduation, he ...

The gym’s interval-based Fit4Baby class, for one, is a 60-minute mashup of low-weight strength training, gentle cardio (think: side steps and high knees), balance exercises, and stretching.