Education minister Peter Peacock said pupils would have a wider choice of activities, including aerobics. Sportscotland chairman Alastair Dempster hailed the plans, which include recruiting 400 more PE teachers, as a "huge breakthrough".
A quarter of Scottish boys and two-fifths of girls are not active enough to meet minimum guidelines for health, according to the Scottish Health Survey.
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