The Sporting

MAY 7, 2023

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!

Immune system

Gopher Sport

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’ve brewed up a list of Halloween-themed physical education games and exercises that will have your students howling with excitement. Monster Mash-Up Fitness Exercises Here are a few Halloween themed fitness exercises you can do with your students!

PE

Whole Child Sports

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The objective of this course is to provide a dynamic fitness workout that promotes playful experimentation. This obstacle course activity helps children develop agility, balance, coordination, and body strength. Again, the exercise can be made more difficult by lowering the height of the different pole sets.

Agility

School Yard

JANUARY 7, 2022

Several years ago, I was teaching at a new elementary school and wanted to get my community involved in family fitness events to promote exercising while having fun. I was ecstatic my mission of promoting family fitness was taking hold. Invite parents/ teachers/staff to join in the fitness and running activities as well.

Fitness

The Sporting

JULY 3, 2023

Exercise with the dogs Having a dog gives you the perfect reason for getting out in the fresh air to be active. The physical movement of our body aids cardiac health, reduces stress, aids regulation of blood pressure and keeps us fit in body and mind. We love taking our whippets to the dog-friendly Parkrun events.

Health

Aspire-Ed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

KS1: “Pupils should develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others.” Gymnasts exercise body and mind. Teaching gymnastics develops children’s cognition.

Primary School

Gopher Sport

JULY 31, 2023

Badminton: Smash Your Way to Success This engaging 3-week badminton unit covers a wide range of exciting objectives designed to improve student’s skills, teamwork, and agility. To improve their overall fitness, they’ll engage in dynamic circuit training, Jump and Jog, Hexagon Hustle, and Parachute Fitness exercises.

Agility

Reinventing the Game

APRIL 14, 2022

What process does Fig 1 best fits; 1) The teacher’s thinking process when approaching a learning design? 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. Or is it vice versa?

Physical Education

PLT4M

JUNE 8, 2023

As physical education looks to promote student engagement and lifelong fitness, the FITT principle serves as a valuable tool for the classroom. F – Frequency – how often will you exercise? I – Intensity – how hard do you work during your exercise? Let’s look at another example.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

MAY 10, 2022

Description of the Circuit: Toe Touches: Starting at the way back, students use the STEPerfect Fitness Steps and alternate toe touches. Feet Together In and Outs: This circuit is a great core exercise. In and Outs: This simple agility drill is a great way to work on quickness and footwork. Looking for more fitness circuit ideas?

High School

The Sporting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

What exercises can we do off-court to improve our footwork for Padel? Similar footwork drills to tennis – agility cone drills , ladders etc. If you have made it this far through the article, you most likely already know that you can fit 3 padel courts on a full size tennis court (if you have a slight run off at the side).

Schooling

Gopher Sport

APRIL 10, 2024

Fitness & Warmup Motivating students to enjoy basic exercises is challenging, but with the incorporation of BlazePod, the students get excited and push their effort to new levels. Here is an example of one of our favorite warmup activities: BLAZEPOD: Fitness Stations Pass out different colored wristbands to the students.

Motivation

PLT4M

JANUARY 12, 2024

A well-structured strength and conditioning program can enhance strength, power, speed, agility, capacity, and endurance while reducing the risk of injury. Strength and conditioning templates offer a structured approach to designing workouts that can be customized to fit goals and needs. More on this later.) 3.

Strength

Better Coaching

DECEMBER 31, 2021

It’s perfect to train your brain and improve your skills; or just to exercise and have fun with family and friends. The rules changes make it fit younger athletes a little better. From their website: IMPROVE COORDINATION & REFLEX SKILLS: Increase hand eye coordination, reflexes, tracking, and decision-making skills with HECOstix.

Coordination

Skillastics

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Some weeks might have adequately-staffed classes or groups perfectly aligned by age, and other weeks may have mixed age groups, or facing staffing shortages or staff with limited physical activity/fitness training. In general, older kids are more agile, with more advanced skills, and a focus on winning can leave the younger kids in the dust.

Physical Activity

The Sporting

JUNE 19, 2023

This guide is designed for the busy working individual who needs to fit training into a normal 7-day week plan. This combination will keep you feeling light and agile whilst providing slow-release energy throughout the day. That’s why we’ve put together a simple and easy-to-follow 5-step guide for mountain bike training.

Nervous system

Skillastics

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Some weeks might have adequately-staffed classes or groups perfectly aligned by age, and other weeks may have mixed age groups, or facing staffing shortages or staff with limited physical activity/fitness training. In general, older kids are more agile, with more advanced skills, and a focus on winning can leave the younger kids in the dust.

Physical Activity

PLT4M

JANUARY 18, 2023

By making it a part of the school day schedule, more students can make strength and conditioning classes part of their fitness journey. Andrew Shaw, strength and conditioning coach at Nashville Christian, has students with varying fitness levels in one class. More On Scheduling! Read More. More on Leaderboards!

Strength

Whole Child Sports

MARCH 26, 2020

Her practices are focused, well-organized and fast-paced, and she approaches individual and team basketball development from every angle: general fitness and conditioning, injury prevention, weight training, nutrition and hydration. When they have completed three sets of 10 reps for various lifts, ladders are used for agility training.

Wellness

Physical Education Ideas

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Forget the trick—this is all about the treat of combining fitness with fun, and trust me, your students will love it! Creativity Meets Physical Fitness Halloween is all about imagination, and that’s something PE games can tap into too! No matter their fitness level, every student has a role to play and a chance to contribute.

Fitness

MSU

MARCH 17, 2025

This can be a good goal to achieve, but instead of just focusing on weight loss, also focus on being consistent with your exercise routine, getting in a goal amount of steps per day in addition to your regular training sessions, and/ or eating an adequate amount of fruits and vegetables per day.

Achievement