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10 Benefits of Cold Water Swimming

The Sporting

The Many Benefits of Cold Water Swimming Cold water swimming has recently gained popularity as a form of therapy and exercise. The abrupt change in temperature helps to keep your white blood cells agile, and an adaptive immune system is better equipped to fend off unwanted illnesses. Read on to find out more!

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Why teach gymnastics in primary school?

Aspire-Ed

Here we break down that impact and take a closer look at why gymnastics is an essential sport to teach in primary school. If you’re looking for a sport that covers just about all of the physical skills that children need to develop, gymnastics is your answer. Teaching gymnastics helps children improve in other sports.

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You Are Your Child’s First Coach—Freeing Your Child from Oppressive, Hyperorganized Sports

Whole Child Sports

As our children grow into physically active, upright beings and we introduce them to sports, we pass the coaching baton to others, hopeful that while playing sports with their peers, our kids will be taught new skills, make friends, and develop a passion for exercise. Is this what we as a society, or individually, really want?

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Strength and Conditioning Templates

PLT4M

A well-structured strength and conditioning program can enhance strength, power, speed, agility, capacity, and endurance while reducing the risk of injury. With Excel, coaches could write training programs with exercises, sets, reps, and percentages. “I want a strength training program for my (insert sport) athlete.”

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How to coach someone to improve their balance

Sports Coaching FAQ

Balance is a fundamental skill that plays a vital role in a variety of physical activities and sports. In order to coach balance, a progressive programme of exercises and movements should be used. Coach Assessment: As a coach your initial assessment would be simply to ask the question – can they do all of the exercises?

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Sprinting Legends: The Greatest Male Sprinters of All Time

The Sporting

What these men achieved off the track has also been taken into account for this list, as its not just in the numbers after all. Alexandra Petrova has put together her top picks for The Sporting Blog! Over the years, sprinters have become the epitome of power, agility and explosive energy.

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What does Skills and Values look like in Physical Education (PE)?

Reinventing the Game

With this little exercise on trying to get the steps right, it seems to support that we are very structured people and we seek clear, chronological processes to make sense of our teaching. We go through with the lessons and usually find it hard to decide if we had achieved what we need to.