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Fitness Through Play: How to Reimagine Physical Education for Lifelong Wellness

SHAPE America

Learn how to identify their target heart rate zone (and understand why staying within that zone can improve cardiovascular endurance). Students move in ways they enjoy, explore their strengths, and reinforce skills that transfer to recess, sports and recreational life. These quick check-ins help students build awareness and ownership.

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High School Physical Education Curriculum

PLT4M

Some districts lower graduation requirements, citing sports or outside activities as enough. At a high level, 9th-grade physical education classes can help not only expose students to future electives and options but also introduce concepts like muscular strength, cardiovascular endurance, and so much more. From the 2024 U.S

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Works of Heart

Stanford Childrens

The Children’s Heart Center has been so successful that it is now planning an expansion that will increase capacity from 20 to 36 beds in the cardiovascular intensive care unit (CVICU), and 20 to 26 beds in the cardiology ward. She’ll be able to be in sports. And so do our patients. I’m so excited to see her future.

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Walking For Fitness Class

PLT4M

Schools are moving beyond traditional team sports to provide more choice, variety, and accessibility. Walking regularly improves cardiovascular health by strengthening the heart and increasing circulation. The class supports cardiovascular health, mental wellness, and lifelong fitness habits.

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The Commodification of Breath: Parsing Fact from Fiction in the Gilded Age of Breathwork and Breathing Influencers

AASP

It strengthens baroreflex sensitivity (how quickly and effectively your body can adjust your heart rate in response to changes in blood pressure), improves heart rate variability, and aligns cardiovascular-respiratory rhythms, which can increase resilience to stress. In summary: Unless your sport requires breathholding (e.g.,

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Gobak Sodor: Traditional Game of Indonesia

Montessori Physical Education

Whenever I research traditional Indigenous sports, I'm always looking for the story's origins and what the sport might reflect of the culture that invented the game. Many games and sports across the world originated as some sort of military training, so this game might be a remnant of a time a more martial culture of the past.

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Why Implement Fitness Testing in Elite Sport? A Breakdown for Coaches

First Beat

In this article, Firstbeat’s Sport Scientist Graham Stark explains the importance of conducting regular fitness tests with your athletes, the differences in maximal and submaximal fitness testing, and how Firstbeat’s new fitness testing feature works. Firstly is the time consideration. Special pricing available for fast action takers.