PLT4M

AUGUST 9, 2024

Many PE classes at the high school level look to take essential steps to transition students from school to an adult life that still values and prioritizes personal fitness and wellness. Let’s delve into Standard 2 and an important sub-standard at the high school level. Ready to WOW your Admins?

Fitness

Stanford Childrens

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With so many mixed messages surrounding nutrition, it’s a task that can feel overwhelming. Due in part to the influence of marketing and diet culture (in a nutshell, the focus of everyone being on a diet and wanting to lose weight), there is a lot of false information about nutrition that we can unknowingly pass on to our kids.

Nutrition

PLT4M

APRIL 17, 2023

At the high school level, the weight room is a classroom. Therefore, high school strength and conditioning curriculum plays a pivotal role in students’ long-term development in physical education. With a proper high school strength and conditioning curriculum, all students can reap the benefits of resistance training.

High School

PLT4M

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Importance Of Sleep Lesson Plans For Students In the hustle and bustle of school and life, it’s easy for students to underestimate the importance of a good night’s sleep. Research has found that 73% of high school students don’t get enough sleep based on the 8-10 hours recommended for 14-17-year-olds.

Immune system

Physical Education Ideas

AUGUST 6, 2021

Some health issues will endure while new ones will emerge – hello Covid 19. Food and Nutrition. The case for well-designed, well-resourced, and sustained health education in school’s is compelling. The potential for school health education to improve health and save lives is significant. How does smoking affect us?

Teaching

Magnus Health

JULY 12, 2024

Being a student athlete is the highlight of school for many teenagers. For students to get the most out of their time when participating in school sports, there are many ways coaches and athletic trainers can encourage overall athlete wellness. Here’s how to ensure mental and physical health comes first during the season.

Wellness

PLT4M

APRIL 23, 2024

Almost every school fitness center and gym has one or multiple treadmills! Each tread workout will allow students to challenge themselves with different endurance, hills, sprints, and more! Treadmill running workouts can boost students’ confidence and comfort in the world of running. And that can get boring!

Endurance

PLT4M

MARCH 7, 2024

While some spin and cycling enthusiasts might cringe at the thought of lumping all stationary bike workouts into one category, let’s not make things too complicated for our middle and high school students. And spin bike workouts in schools are becoming more popular than ever before.

Cardio

Better Coaching

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Kids start playing organized sports at increasingly younger ages, encouraged by coaches, schools, and often, parents. One common issue is the "no pain, no gain" mentality that some parents adopt, believing that enduring pain is part of becoming a better athlete. In recent years, amateur sports have become a thriving ecosystem.

Sport

Relentless School Nurse

MARCH 2, 2023

Here is a message from our friend, Judy Doran, the Maine school nurse who writes a guest blog aptly titled “Maine Points,” from her corner of the country. She is a school nurse friend with whom I have an unbreakable bond after being in the long COVID foxhole together. 0200 or 0600 posts before school. The ones who write letters.

Schooling

PLT4M

MAY 17, 2023

Physical education, as defined by Shape America , is just like any other subject in school, “Physical education is an academic subject and serves as the foundation of a CSPAP and, as such, demands the same education rigor as other core subjects.

Education

Arizona Health and Physical Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Teaching commitment, teamwork, leadership, cooperation, strength, endurance and many other important qualities, girls and women who participate in sports will attest to the fact that it’s healthy and beneficial in a myriad of ways. The National Women’s Law Center, as well as the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition.

Sport

PLT4M

MARCH 4, 2024

As most teachers set out to find health education lesson plans, they are often in search of resources and information on health topics like: Nutrition and Healthy Eating Habits Physical Activity and Exercise Programs Mental Health Education (Stress Management, Coping Mechanisms, Mindfulness) Substance Abuse Prevention (Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco, etc.)

Health Education

Stanford Childrens

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While your friends are traveling on a bus to a school game or hanging out at the mall, you are at home or at a dialysis center tethered by cords, every day for at least three hours. Dialysis for kidney failure was a killer, but I refused to give up school, choir, or tennis, even though I was always very tired.

Immune system

Montessori Physical Education

APRIL 30, 2023

The first two components featured the importance of sleep and nutrition, and I integrated the two into my discussion. In every sport, it is advantageous to be fast, strong, and have endurance, which can all be increased with exercise. I was the anchor leg of a three-part series focusing on promoting healthy habits in the family.

Physical Activity