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Mindful Movement: Best Exercises to Elevate Your Mental Health

The Sporting

Mind-Body Connection: The 10 Best Exercises for a Happier, Healthier You Ways to improve the mind-body connection through exercise and help improve mental resilience and relieve anxiety. Studies show that exercise of around 45 minutes two to five days a week can significantly improve mental health and physical fitness.

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Gymnastics Lesson Plans

PLT4M

At PLT4M, we recommend teaching gymnastic skills to the entire class allowing ample students time to practice the movements together. From here, teachers can create stations where students can spread out into smaller groups and practice different types of exercises. Each exercise has written and video instruction.

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Mental Health Benefits of Exercise

Teen Health 101

Exercise is known to affect your physical health substantially, but movement also has many benefits on your mental health and well-being. However, it is important that you exercise safely and intuitively to avoid further harm to your body or mind. Exercise can also help people manage depression. Jasper Smits, Ph.D.,

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PE Activities Without Equipment

PLT4M

Outside of school, many students will not have access to equipment for exercise. By teaching PE activities without equipment, students can learn different exercise and workout routines that they can do at home, outside, at a park, or anywhere there is space. Odd rounds (1,3,5,7) consist of boxing exercises. Get Access Here.

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Functional Fitness – What, Why, & How

PLT4M

Functional fitness is any exercise or workout that improves your body’s natural movement patterns. This type of exercise emphasizes functional movements that can be used in everyday life. Functional fitness is any type of exercise or workout that translates to the demands of everyday activities.

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15 Spook-Tacular PE Games

Gopher PE

As we approach the spookiest time of the year, bring some Halloween magic to your gym class! We’ve brewed up a list of Halloween-themed physical education games and exercises that will have your students howling with excitement. Pumpkin Patch Pick-Up Scatter orange beanbags (pumpkins) around the play area.

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What is Physical Literacy?

PLT4M

See more here on the differences between physical activity vs. physical education.) Physical literacy is about learning a wide range of functional movement skills across different activities. In this curriculum model, students learn and develop functional movement skills like squat, lunge, hinge, press, and pull.