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THE PITFALLS OF 'MORE, YOUNGER' MINDSET Why Starting Kids Too Early and Pushing Them Too Hard Can Backfire in Youth Sports

Better Coaching

This approach, which Ive labeled More, Younger, insists that increased time on the field, in the gym, or on the court is the surest path to success, scholarships, and lifelong athletic achievement. Burnout often unfolds in stages: Enthusiasm: The child begins with high motivation and excitement. Difficulty sleeping Changes in appetite.

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Let’s Escape! The Impact of a Digital-Physical Combined Escape Room on Students’ Creative Thinking, Learning Motivation, and Science Academic Achievement

PE Scholar

Digital and physical escape rooms have been suggested as practical and effective approaches to game-based learning.

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Elementary PE Lesson Plans

PLT4M

Platforms like Teachers Pay Teachers offer creative ideas, but most schools dont fund these purchases. High-quality PE lesson plans play a critical role in helping PE teachers inspire, motivate, and engage their students while teaching valuable skills that extend far beyond the gym.

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What does Skills and Values look like in Physical Education (PE)?

Reinventing the Game

We go through with the lessons and usually find it hard to decide if we had achieved what we need to. In other words, the actual internal processes within a learner to achieve thinking, affective characteristics, values, skills, etc. We design elaborate lessons starting with these aims, hoping to see what we want to see.

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Having Trouble Sticking to Your Exercise Program? Stay Motivated With These 13 Exercise Adherence Strategies

AASP

Initially, many people are motivated to begin an exercise program, but as much as 80% of people do not stick with exercise once they have started (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). So, what does it take to get/stay motivated and how can you increase the likelihood that you will continue exercising? run 3 miles).

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Keeping Players Motivated with Great Practice Activities

MSU

Use our six criteria for a motivating practice activity to grade your own practice activities. Every coach should want players to be highly motivated during a practice activity. But where does that motivation come from? Are some players just motivated from the inside? Or does motivation arise from the practice activities?

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Power-Up Rhythm and Timing in Physical Education Activities

Gopher Sport

Deficits such as these in foundational motor skills have consequences for cognition and achievement. There are so many variations here, use your creativity! Importantly, you, as a physical education teacher, contribute in a meaningful way to the skills that underlie your student’s academic achievement.