SHAPE America

MAY 22, 2025

You can embed this through goal-setting practices like the FITT principle to guide students toward personalized, achievable fitness goals. Learn how to identify their target heart rate zone (and understand why staying within that zone can improve cardiovascular endurance). Thats the real foundation for lifelong habits.

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Gopher Sport

JULY 12, 2024

Clearly define what you want your students to achieve throughout the lesson. If your goal is improving cardiovascular endurance, plan activities such as relay races or cardio kickball that will help enhance your student’s aerobic capacity. Find games that incorporate your objective and teach it to your students.

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Montessori Physical Education

JUNE 19, 2022

There was an article published in the Washington Post titled, “What Happened to PE? It’s Losing Ground in Our Push for Academic Achievement.” He recounts overcoming his aversion to PE by joining the cross-country team, which enabled him to thrive in a running-based PE class later that year. So how do we save PE?

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PLT4M

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Examples of physical education include teaching concepts and building skills around things like muscular strength, endurance, mobility, cardiovascular health, and more. And while heart rate is a great health metric, it shouldn’t be the only focus for PE. “I am a physical EDUCATION teacher, not physical activity teacher.”

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PLT4M

JANUARY 30, 2023

One bodyweight bootcamp workout can build cardiovascular endurance, upper body and lower body muscular strength and endurance, mobility, core strength, and more. Every student in class can find the right movement to still achieve a great workout. A total body workout. Fun and high-energy classes. Turn up the music and get moving.

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PLT4M

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

And while people argue that regular physical activity can be achieved without physical education, PE lesson plans and curriculum can help equip and ensure students become physically literate. There are endless fitness activities that can achieve the long-term goal of empowering physically literate individuals.

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