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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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Zombie Fitness

Montessori Physical Education

Earlier that day, I thought of an idea called "Zombie Fitness." If you are looking for a fun Halloween PE game, try Zombie Fitness! Depending on the age, you may decide to do one set of several reps, or if the students are older or very fit, do multiple sets. · This will be an excellent test of coordination and balance.

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Zombie Fitness Part II

Montessori Physical Education

I did the Zombie Fitness lesson this past Friday with my middle school students. I even had six students with enough coordination, balance, and strength to go from lying down to standing, only using one leg! I even had six students with enough coordination, balance, and strength to go from lying down to standing, only using one leg!

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How to ‘Spring’ Into Physical Activity During National PE & Sport Week

SHAPE America

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!

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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. The goal is to improved fitness in 10 different areas: cardiovascular endurance, strength, stamina, speed, flexibility, power, balance, coordination, agility, and accuracy. So here’s a concept that bucks that trend.

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

SHAPE America

The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Be mindful that soccer is lower-body dominant for object control and tennis is upper-body dominant, so including eye-foot and eye-hand coordination helps to develop skills across sports.

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Precision in Physical Education (PE) – What is its role?

Reinventing the Game

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!