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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. 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. Ever heard of exercise deficiency disorder?

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THE PITFALLS OF 'MORE, YOUNGER' MINDSET Why Starting Kids Too Early and Pushing Them Too Hard Can Backfire in Youth Sports

Better Coaching

This approach, which Ive labeled More, Younger, insists that increased time on the field, in the gym, or on the court is the surest path to success, scholarships, and lifelong athletic achievement. As children grow older, this conditional approval can encourage a cycle of anxiety and fear of failure. Must perform, must impress.

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How Blue Devils Weiden Optimize Training with Firstbeat Sports

First Beat

Simon Heidenreich is the strength and conditioning coach at Blue Devils Weiden , a professional ice hockey team competing in Germanys DEL 2 league. Meet Simon: From Player to Coach Simons journey in ice hockey has taken him from a professional player to an accomplished strength and conditioning coach and sports scientist.

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

Magnus Health

Ask students to wash their hands or sanitize before practice or gym class. If your high school athletes are of driving age, consider arranging bus or shuttle transportation or parent carpools so teenagers don’t have to drive in dark winter conditions to practices and games.

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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. All three of these tenants of PE can be better utilized in classroom settings.