Jake sport education a step further: add fitness; Combining two popular curriculums--sport education and fitness education--allows physical educators to use the best of both in their teaching.

The Surgeon General's report upon physical activity and health provides abundant evidence that physical activity plays a character in helping to prevent and treat coronary heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, hypertension, depression, and obesity (United States Department of Health and Human Services, 1996) While adolescents are generally not directly at risk for similar diseases, the habit of exercise begins to deteriorate early in life. Perhaps not coincidentally, enrollment in physical education classes begins to decline in the fifth grade and activity horizontals of high school students have been shown to decline each year (Ross & Gilbert, 1985; Stephens & Casperson, 1993)