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Politicians! We Need a National Fitness Strategy and a New National Identity!

Physical Education Update

But in order to realize these savings, we need a national strategy for fitness. The strategy must be comprehensive with the goal of establishing a national identity that includes fitness, health and physical competence. Our national identities must become tied in with fitness. How much can a national fitness strategy save?

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How I Use Firstbeat in Professional Sports to Identify Trends in Players’ Fitness

First Beat

In this article, Domenik shares practical advice and tips on using Firstbeat to help identify trends in player fitness. In this blog post, I will explain how we can employ different Firstbeat parameters to recognize and track players’ fitness trends from the pre-season until the end of the competition.

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AFL’s Sydney Swans Confirms Three-Year Partnership with Firstbeat Sports

First Beat

Firstbeat’s internal load data offers coaches a detailed overview of training load, providing a more in-depth understanding of the physiological stress experienced by athletes during training sessions. About Sydney Swans The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club based in Sydney, New South Wales.

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Using the 5 GRAIDs Domains To Address Fitness Center Barriers

PLT4M

This article will move through the five domains covered in the Guidelines Recommendations and Adaptations Including Disability (GRAIDs) to provide a comprehensive approach to ensuring your fitness center is accessible and welcoming to all individuals, including those with a disability. Consider all different types of disability.

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

Reinventing the Game

My personal belief is that the younger the age group of learners, the more worthwhile to understand better the physiological processes at work within the learner and the behaviour exhibited in response to task and environment. Also recently, the strangle hold of fitness testing looms large in my professional life.

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If They Can Block-Schedule Physical Education, Why Not Lunch?

Physical Education Update

Unfortunately, the administrators who make educational policy are often academics with no grounding in physical fitness—their decisions are based on efficiency rather than sound physiological principles. Stewart, “Games children should play,” from Running Through My Mind, Victoria: 3S Fitness Group Ltd.,

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New Integration Between Firstbeat and Sideline Sports to Optimize Athlete Performance

First Beat

For Firstbeat, this integration with Sideline Sports enhances their customer experience further, helping to deliver physiological data to the whole coaching staff to use in decision-making processes and communications. This includes our metrics like Quick Recovery Test, TRIMP, Training Effect, and Movement Load.”

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