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Fitness Through Play: How to Reimagine Physical Education for Lifelong Wellness

SHAPE America

Can play be exercise? Does exercise have to be associated with a negative connotation to be effective? Applies the principles of exercise in a variety of self-selected lifetime physical activities. Traditional approaches in physical education can lack joy, choice and relevance to students lives. Grades 9-12 2.12.7

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Rethinking Early Morning Practices

Better Coaching

Balancing Scheduling, Nutrition, and Performance The tradition of early morning practice is deeply ingrained in sports culture, often seen as a symbol of discipline and commitment. Early morning practices often leave athletes insufficiently hydrated, exacerbating fatigue and reducing endurance. ' That ain't right!

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What is TRIMP? How Sports Teams Use It to Optimize Training

First Beat

TRIMP (Training Impulse) is a powerful metric that helps sports teams quantify training load using heart rate data, enabling coaches to optimize performance, manage injury risk, and ensure athletes are game-ready. Indeed, this is the metric used within the Firstbeat Sports dashboard.

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2024 Arizona Family Day

Arizona Health and Physical Education

The focus is on age-appropriate exercises such as bodyweight movements, light resistance training, and core stability work. These exercises improve strength, coordination, and help prevent injuries. Students also learn proper form and the importance of regular physical activity for overall health.

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Walking For Fitness Class

PLT4M

Schools are moving beyond traditional team sports to provide more choice, variety, and accessibility. It gives them a space to exercise, set goals, and improve their health—without needing advanced athletic ability or experience. With each walk, they improve endurance, build consistency, and create habits that can last a lifetime.

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The Commodification of Breath: Parsing Fact from Fiction in the Gilded Age of Breathwork and Breathing Influencers

AASP

Intriguing data from free divers suggest that intensive breath-hold training may lead to beneficial physiological adaptations for sport performance (Ostrowski et al., 2012), particularly endurance, including higher levels of hemoglobin and erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that promotes red blood cell growth. Woorons et al., 2019; 2020).

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Gobak Sodor: Traditional Game of Indonesia

Montessori Physical Education

Whenever I research traditional Indigenous sports, I'm always looking for the story's origins and what the sport might reflect of the culture that invented the game. Many games and sports across the world originated as some sort of military training, so this game might be a remnant of a time a more martial culture of the past.