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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

An example of this is to combine locomotor running skills for quickness and agility as seen in tennis and soccer. Be mindful that soccer is lower-body dominant for object control and tennis is upper-body dominant, so including eye-foot and eye-hand coordination helps to develop skills across sports.

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Can You Use CrossFit In Physical Education Classes?

Physical Education Update

For those of you not aware of CrossFit, it’s a strength and conditioning program that employs a mix of aerobic, gymnastics, body weight and Olympic lifting exercises. The goal is to improved fitness in 10 different areas: cardiovascular endurance, strength, stamina, speed, flexibility, power, balance, coordination, agility, and accuracy.

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Exciting New Features for PhysednHealth K-12 Platform

Physed n Health

Timer-Based Push Up and Curl Up Test Measuring upper body strength and core stability has never been easier with our new timer-based push-up and curl-up test. Jump Rope Test Integrate the classic jump rope test into your curriculum and evaluate students’ agility, coordination, and cardiovascular endurance.

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The Unique Tapestry of Asian Sports: Where Tradition Meets Competition

The Sporting

Kabaddi tests physical strength, agility and teamwork, and is especially popular in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, where it has professional leagues and international championships. Known for its spectacular acrobatics, Sepak Takraw requires players to have exceptional flexibility, coordination and skill.

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Why teach gymnastics in primary school?

Aspire-Ed

Flexibility, strength, technique, speed, control, coordination and balance are all developed through gymnastics. The moves, exercises and activities that make up gymnastics help children to understand the way their bodies move, and how these movements can be coordinated and controlled. As we get older our bones deteriorate.

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The World's Toughest Sports

The Sporting

Boxers need to acquire a high level of endurance, strength, speed, agility and technical skill, as well as mental toughness and strategic thinking in order to be able to thrive in this sport. Water polo actually requires a lot of physical strength, core endurance and agility.

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Sports Equipment for Your Home Coaching

Whole Child Sports

This safe and fun balance-trainingdevice helps a child develop body awareness, core strength, and rotational movement. Create dozens of fun games and skill competitions with a pitchback to develop hand and foot/eye coordination in conjunction with agility training (Stages One to Three). Agility ladder. Vew-Do NUB Boards.