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

SHAPE America

SHAPE America’s National Physical Education & Sport Week (May 1-7) is a celebration of the importance of physical education and sport in the lives of kids of all ages. The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Show how these skills are developed across sport.

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Sports for Fitness: The 8 Best Sports for Improving Your Physical Fitness

The Sporting

The Top 8 Sports for Fitness: Your Full Guide to The Best Sports To Improve Fitness While some people thrive in the structured environment of a gym, not everyone feels like they are cut out for the gym grind. But which sports are actually best for fitness? And there’s nothing wrong with that!

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Can You Use CrossFit In Physical Education Classes?

Physical Education Update

It uses a fitness program called CrossFit to make special classes more difficult and challenging. 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. So here’s a concept that bucks that trend.

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World Heart Day Q&A with Stanford Children’s Heart Doctors

Stanford Childrens

Exercise and Heart Disease in Kids Ever wonder if your child with heart disease should exercise? On World Heart Day , we asked four of our pediatric cardiologists to answer these questions and others from parents who wanted to know the guidelines around exercise for their child with heart disease.

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5 Great Secondary Lesson Plans from Dynamic PE ASAP!

Gopher PE

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. Embrace the Lacrosse Spirit This immersive lacrosse unit will introduce and ignite your student’s passion for the sport!

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Backyard / Local Park Obstacle Course: Fun and Fitness Home Coaching Program (Stages One to Three)

Whole Child Sports

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.

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Blazepod

Gopher PE

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.