AASP

MAY 21, 2024

2012) identified eight broad categories of athlete-specific stressors: Sport injury, performance demands, coach-athlete relationship, training adaption and burnout, interpersonal relationships, family relationships, and academic requirements (e.g., to maintain eligibility). Be intentional and use the available resources!

Wellness

PLT4M

AUGUST 15, 2023

Rather than just looking at it as an opportunity for physical activity, they say, “It is an academic subject characterized by a planned, sequential K–12 curriculum (course of study) that is based on the national standards for physical education. Students can explore different electives and choices that they want to pursue.

Physical Education

Stanford Childrens

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In this dedicated space, a specialized team cares for the smallest preemies, using specially designed protocols to protect their fragile brains, advanced equipment to help support their lungs and special feeding and nutrition approaches to help babies grow.

Elementary School

I Love to Watch You Play

APRIL 4, 2021

More than training modifications, coaching, nutrition, or conditioning, scientists have called it "the most potent performance-enhancing activity that we know of. More than training modifications, coaching, nutrition, or conditioning, scientists have called it "the most potent performance-enhancing activity that we know of.

Nutrition

Rennie Center

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Research finds that child and family homelessness is associated with poor physical and mental health, including chronic conditions related to asthma, lead exposure, and nutritional deficits; increased school mobility; lower academic performance; higher rates of absenteeism and drop out; and hindered social and emotional development.

Nutrition

Rennie Center

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Research finds that child and family homelessness is associated with poor physical and mental health, including chronic conditions related to asthma, lead exposure, and nutritional deficits; increased school mobility; lower academic performance; higher rates of absenteeism and drop out; and hindered social and emotional development.

Nutrition

PLT4M

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Common Sleep Disorders – How various conditions disrupt standard sleep patterns, leading to various physical and mental health issues. However, there are a multitude of benefits of sleep, impacting not only your academic performance but also your overall health and well-being.

Immune system

FACTS Management

MAY 21, 2024

They undergo daily routines that involve physical training, nutritional plans, and mental conditioning. For educators, this means setting high standards for personal achievement and continuously seeking knowledge and skills that will translate into better teaching. Olympians spend years training to compete at the highest levels.

Education

Informed Practitioner in Sport

MAY 30, 2022

Parents are naturally highly motivated to find the programme that provides most optimal conditions to allow their child’s talents to flourish. Aside from the lack of apparent benefit, another worrisome finding was that those who attended these elite sport schools also performed worse academically.

Private Schools

PLT4M

MARCH 4, 2024

For example, nutrition education shouldn’t give a one-size-fits-all prescriptive solution on eating and healthy habits. Students navigate nutrition based on a wide variety of factors including family, culture, socioeconomics and more. This is a sample from chapter 1 of PLT4M’s nutrition lesson plans unit.

Health Education

PLT4M

OCTOBER 18, 2023

trillion in annual health care expenditures are for people with chronic and mental health conditions.” Diabetes: More than 37 million Americans have diabetes , and another 96 million adults in the United States have a condition called prediabetes, which puts them at risk for type 2 diabetes. ” – CDC.

Wellness

Spark PE

JANUARY 14, 2022

It was notable that physical inactivity was a stronger risk factor for severe COVID-19 than commonly-discussed pre-existing conditions like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and smoking. Effect of classroom-based physical activity interventions on academic and physical activity outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Physical Activity