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Movement Matters: 5 Ways Physical Activity Improves Student Behavior

SHAPE America

Once a week during their lunch period, the students joined me in the school gym for exercise. Ever heard of exercise deficiency disorder? It’s a condition where individuals do not engage in sufficient physical activity, and for children under 18, that’s 60 minutes of physical activity per day.

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Winter Sports Safety: How to Keep Student Athletes Injury-Free All Season

Magnus Health

Since cold muscles are more prone to injuries, it’s essential to warm up the body before any exercise. Ask students to wash their hands or sanitize before practice or gym class. According to the ACSM, a 14.4 F drop in temperature can lower a muscle’s power output by 31 percent.

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Gobak Sodor: Traditional Game of Indonesia

Montessori Physical Education

The game is played on a grid that can be made by making lines in the ground or using the court lines of a gym. Besides working on cardiovascular conditioning and quick reflexes, it is the strategy that the teams must employ as a collective, which resembles successful army formations moving in battle.

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5 Tips for Teaching Physical Education Without a Gym

SHAPE America

Are you losing your gym space for a class period, a day, a week or longer? At some point, most physical education teachers have had to give up the gym for a concert, rehearsal, assembly, construction, or other school/community activity. And, although teaching PE without a gym is not ideal, it is possible. It’s not unusual.

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Add Movement to the School Day to Boost Student Physical Activity and Learning

SHAPE America

The gym is not the only place where students can move, interact and learn by doing. We need classrooms to be more active and engaging like the gym! There are also a record number of kids with social-emotional-behavioral conditions. As the American College of Sports Medicine puts it, Exercise is Medicine.

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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. While Crossfit is an exercise philosophy, it’s also a competitive fitness sport, with the CrossFit Games conducted every year since 2007.

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Heart Rate & Resistance Training Re-imagined For Physical Education & Sports

Heartzones

My muscle doesn’t know the difference if I’m digging in the yard, carrying heavy shopping bags, or lifting a dumbbell.” ( Source & Study ) What is going on inside the body during strength exercises? Notice the elastic bands in the partner drills, that provide leg resistance exercise, while also providing cardio conditioning.