First Beat

JUNE 5, 2025

This article is written by Domenik Theodorou , a Firstbeat Sports client and Performance Coach at RASTA Vechta , a professional basketball team competing in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) and FIBA Basketball Champions League (BCL). Another great side effect is the feedback you can provide—not just to the player, but also to the head coach.

Conditioning

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives.

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

Make new friends through movement. Imagine the fun and excitement you will have playing five different games in five different days, trying to become the ultimate fitness winner. Show off your creativity side: Revise rules from old games and change them to new and different rules to fit the new game. Spoiler alert!

Physical Activity

Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Also recently, the strangle hold of fitness testing looms large in my professional life. Following the fitness theme here, I happen to visit a National uniform-group fitness testing centre where we observed their latest technology in helping test recruits using X-Box technology. Or is it not? This after 3 decades of teaching!

Physical Education

SHAPE America

MAY 23, 2023

It came with a top-notch Bluetooth speaker, subscription to the service, and the Billie Jean King Eye Coach (think batting tee for tennis). To maximize time on task, some students worked with the bikes while others worked on fitness games that didn’t require a lot of space or set up. I was so ecstatic that we got to go to the U.S.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

AUGUST 1, 2023

Consistency is a compounding effect; everyone in the fitness, training, coaching industry knows that, but parents, admin, students don’t always grasp that. Eventually it would be nice to showcase which components lead to the best improvement of movement capabilities. Maybe even time of day drastically affects attendance!

PE

Mr. Kirsch

APRIL 8, 2020

Purpose of Event: Lifetime Fitness and Movement Enrichment Education. PS you can do these activities with your parent/guardians and/or brothers/sisters. Coach Higs. Purpose of Event: Lifetime Fitness and Movement Enrichment Education. Use the Dinner Dice Fitness Chart. K-2 = Activities. Grade: K-2.

Assessment

PLT4M

AUGUST 25, 2022

Exercise and fitness should not be a one size fits all approach. Modified exercises allow every individual to succeed in fitness. Any type of injury from working out will likely stop a student’s fitness journey in its tracks. PE teacher Adam Hughes reviews with a student how to scale a movement with a PVC pipe.

Exercise

First Beat

JUNE 26, 2024

Firstbeat Sports is a single-platform solution that provides elite sports teams with data on training load, intensity, fitness, performance readiness, stress, recovery, and more. And, when it comes to communicating heart rate data to coaches, the Firstbeat UI does a great job of creating visuals that are intuitive and easy to understand.

Physiology

The Sporting

MARCH 12, 2023

Gymnastics has a number of health advantages and it may be the best sport to do if you want to get fit and active, even in your advancing years. Gymnastics will help you reach your fitness goals , especially if you want to strengthen your core. The support of a coach and teammates in gymnastics classes is guaranteed.

Flexibility

The PhysEd Coach

MARCH 7, 2022

The push, pull, hinge, squat, and lunge are found in almost any human movement training. From foundational exercises to advanced strength training, to yoga, foundational movement patterns are the […]. The post Foundational Movement Patterns (with Downloadable PDF Posters) appeared first on The #Physed Coach.

Movement

PLT4M

APRIL 2, 2024

Physical education plays a crucial role in shaping the health and fitness habits of individuals from an early age. Lifetime fitness activities are workouts, exercises, and sports that people can continue to enjoy and benefit from at any stage of their lives, regardless of their age or fitness level.

Fitness

PLT4M

JULY 22, 2022

What started as a passion project for our two co-founders while they were teaching and coaching has since grown into a nationwide fitness and health movement. Thank you to all of the teachers and coaches who share our mission of empowering students with the love and skills for lifelong fitness.

Physical Education

Open Phys Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Manipulative Skills: (Grade 6-8) Refines manipulative skills to improve performance in dance, fitness, and sport activities. Locomotor Skills: (Grade 6) Safely and purposefully uses mature locomotor skills in rhythms and patterns in dance, fitness, and sport environments.

Middle School

First Beat

JUNE 25, 2023

Their main product, XPS Network, provides cutting-edge, easy-to-use software for coaches in every sport, ensuring better access to key coaching data and smarter decision-making. This includes our metrics like Quick Recovery Test, TRIMP, Training Effect, and Movement Load.”

Sports

Heartzones

AUGUST 11, 2022

How can students and community stakeholders invest their fitness energy back into their homes and neighborhoods? First, for the fitness enthusiast, you should generate energy (aka burn calories) through physical movement activities of your choice. You can come up with as many different movement activity ideas as you choose!

Fitness

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Recent evidence suggests that adding developmentally appropriate cognitive demands to patterned movement stimulates executive function and the precursor skills to reading and math ( Paschen et al., The ability to synchronize movements with rhythm is fundamental to children’s ability to pull to a stand, walk, run, skip, and gallop.

Physical Education

First Beat

AUGUST 4, 2023

For Firstbeat, this integration with Stretch On Sense enhances their customer experience further and demonstrates the company’s commitment to providing performance coaches and players with the best possible user experience. About Firstbeat: Firstbeat provides advanced performance analytics for more than 1,000 sports teams around the world.

Sports

Aspire-Ed

MAY 18, 2023

For teachers and coaches, it means all those things and more. It’s where they learn Fundamental Movement Skills – from balancing to throwing a ball – that blossom into sporting talents and vital life tools like teamwork and taking part. It gives pupils a better start in life.

Coaching

First Beat

JANUARY 10, 2023

We recently spoke with Vechta’s Performance Coach , Domenik Theodorou , to learn more about Firstbeat Sports’ role in decision-making in coaching, live monitoring, load management, and athlete buy-in. All the coaches are passionate about what we do– getting them out of the practice gym is tough! It simply works.

Sports

Learning Through Sport

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Small sided games (SSGs) have been part of the coaching lexicon for decades. It is therefore difficult to generalise the value of SSG for sport coaching or sport teaching in PE, when there is an absence of research into the use of SSGs in most game categories and in general, most sports.

Conditioning

Skillastics

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Movement is defined as changing the position of one’s body parts relative to each other. Physical activity is defined as intentional voluntary movement directed toward achieving a goal. The definitions of movement and physical activity are different, but we use the words interchangeably.

Physical Activity

Reinventing the Game

MARCH 13, 2021

Especially in the area of set pieces and fitness from the short time I manage to observe. I can sort of make out who the coach, the physical trainer, the assistants, etc. They definitely spent a fair amount of time building up their capacity in various developmental aspects through different drills and activities.

Physical Education

Montessori Physical Education

APRIL 2, 2022

I look better, my clothes fit better, and most importantly, I feel better. He doesn’t just advocate bending it a little, but full range of motion movements that would have made me cringe just thinking about them a year ago. So, if I wasn’t going to compete, then I shouldn’t need to lift such heavy weights. Except my knees.

Coaching

PLT4M

MARCH 6, 2023

He has taught physical education at preschool, elementary, and high school levels and courses related to exercise science, coaching, health, and wellness at the university level. Youth participating in a virtual fitness class at home. These programs are designed to improve mobility, strength, flexibility, and overall physical fitness.

Physical Education

MSU

APRIL 12, 2019

Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Sport Coaching and Leadership Online Programs. Perhaps the most important goal for coaches is developing the movement skills of their athletes. Perhaps the most important goal for coaches is developing the movement skills of their athletes. The answer is simple, right?

Coaching

The Sporting

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Padel has a very specific movement profile, moving in all directions almost continually, but probably going backwards more than any other sport. But the learning process would be similar to other racket sports, players would just need to learn the patterns of movement for padel. This will take time and repetition.

Schooling

First Beat

MARCH 28, 2024

This article is written by Domenik Theodorou , a Firstbeat Sports client and Performance Coach at RASTA Vechta, a professional basketball team competing in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). The notable change in this phase involves the addition of an assistant coach who enhances the technical and tactical demands.

Movement

First Beat

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This article is written by Domenik Theodorou , a Firstbeat Sports client and Performance Coach at RASTA Vechta , a professional basketball team competing in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). In this article, Domenik shares practical advice and tips on using Firstbeat to help identify trends in player fitness.

Fitness

Reinventing the Game

APRIL 14, 2022

What process does Fig 1 best fits; 1) The teacher’s thinking process when approaching a learning design? Without doubt, as experts, we can predict much movement outcomes when it comes to skills, values, etc. Or is it vice versa? 2) Or is it better to consider the opposite flow? And finally, 3) Should it be a cyclical process?

Physical Education

PLT4M

JULY 31, 2023

Here are PLT4M; we often start with a slate of baseline fitness testing that covers various fitness domains. These baseline fitness tests are appropriate for relatively novice and new students. Mobility – Squat Therapy Test – For years, fitness tests included an element of passive muscular flexibility assessment.

Physical Education

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As coaches, we all want to win. Essentially, this refers to poor coordination within a series of muscle contractions once a movement is initiated. This is an issue regarding the relationship between the agonist muscle group (those that start the movement) and antagonist muscle groups (those that control the movement).

Strength

Sports Coaching FAQ

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Sports coaching on a one-on-one basis can provide a fantastic opportunity to provide targeted advice and guidance to an athlete or player to support their development however, it can also bring with it drawbacks, particularly if the sport being coached one to one is a team sport. We will now examine each step in more detail.

Coaching

PLT4M

APRIL 17, 2023

Historically, sport coaches and strength coaches have worked with high school athletes, but now physical education teachers are getting involved. Hopefully, there are qualified coaches who can assist in this, but this isn’t always the case at the high school level.

High School

PLT4M

JUNE 14, 2022

Many physical education programs have recently transitioned to a fitness education model. Now, many physical education programs aim to make fitness education the focus of their physical education curriculum models. Fitness Curriculum Playbook (PDF) . What is a Fitness Education Model? Download Now!

Physical Education

The Sporting

APRIL 10, 2023

Real Tennis at The Queens Club The Sporting Blog : Howard, tell us how you managed to fit training to play elite level sport in with your work and eventually family commitments? So I was fitting in a huge number of matches each year, similar to what a top modern Lawn Tennis Tour Pro would play annually. at squash till the mid 1970’s.

Sports

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 4, 2022

The rationale for this spend is improvement in student outcomes (teacher PD) and player outcomes (coach PD). It 'paints a picture' of countries like Australia confronting a movement ability 'crises'. This morning, I was reading a research paper investigating coach use of a 'contemporary' non-linear pedagogy.

Teaching