article thumbnail

Can You Use CrossFit In Physical Education Classes?

Physical Education Update

The goal is to improved fitness in 10 different areas: cardiovascular endurance, strength, stamina, speed, flexibility, power, balance, coordination, agility, and accuracy. It’s also a commercial enterprise, with over 10,000 affiliated gyms now using it in their exercise offering.

article thumbnail

10 Halloween Tag Games to THRILL your Students!

Gopher Sport

Spider Web Scooter Tag: Create an intricate “spider web” with black ropes or yarn, intricately weaving a web throughout your gym area. Haunted House Tag: Designate certain areas as haunted houses by standing up tumbling mats throughout the gym. Play for a designated amount of time and switch taggers each round.

Gyms 131
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Get Your Green On! 12 Lucky St. Patrick's Day Games for a Shamrockin' PE Class!

Physical Education Ideas

Imagine the gym transformed into a vibrant sea of green and gold, with leprechaun hats bobbing and shamrock smiles all around. The Games: Leprechaun Gold Rush (Kindergarten to Grade 2 - Run and Collect Game): Description: Scatter gold-colored balls (Leprechaun gold) around the gym. Divide the gym into two sides.

Gyms 98
article thumbnail

15 Spook-Tacular PE Games

Gopher Sport

As we approach the spookiest time of the year, bring some Halloween magic to your gym class! Witch’s Broomstick Scooter Relay Set up a relay race where students ride scooters around the gym, while pretending to be witches riding on their broomsticks. Pumpkin Patch Pick-Up Scatter orange beanbags (pumpkins) around the play area.

PE 93
article thumbnail

Raffles! We all love raffles!

Arizona Health and Physical Education

FitRadio is offering a Gym Pro subscription again this year as well. Agility ladder and a set of kickball bases courtesy of our own Toni Chilton. How about a coupon for one hour open play, paddle + ball rental + 2 appetizers at Chicken Pickle? Once again we have AccuSplit donating 4 class sets of stopwatches.

Agility 75
article thumbnail

Jump Rope Activities For Elementary PE

PLT4M

These activities also promote cardiovascular endurance, agility, and perseverance, making them a valuable part of any PE curriculum. Take this visual and display it in your gym to help students find the right jump rope size!

article thumbnail

The 5 Greatest Left-Handed Tennis Players of All-Time

The Sporting

The lithe and diminutive 5’ 8” lefty succeeded through a combination of speed and agility, a ferocious competitive DNA and no real weakness that could be exploited. Nadal describes his left arm as beefier- and he calls the tennis court his gym. Like McEnroe, the Rockhampton Rocket didn’t overpower opponents.

Agility 119