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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

Be mindful that soccer is lower-body dominant for object control and tennis is upper-body dominant, so including eye-foot and eye-hand coordination helps to develop skills across sports. An example of this is to combine locomotor running skills for quickness and agility as seen in tennis and soccer.

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In Season Strength Training

PLT4M

Let’s take a look at in season strength training and break down the why, what, and how! At the same time, the absence of resistance training will always equal substantial losses of strength and power. Let’s take a quick look at exactly why consistent strength training during the season puts your team in the best position to win.

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Daily Physical Education as an Academic and Behavioral Intervention

SHAPE America

You’ve got to coordinate, sense, process, integrate, inhibit, and continually make decisions.” If biking doesn’t work at your school, here are some other activity ideas: Running Hiking Strength Training Cross-Country Skiing The timing piece is critical.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Nurses and Gun Violence Prevention: Protecting the Public’s Health

Relentless School Nurse

I currently serve as Clinical Coordinator in the program and while I am not part of the full-time faculty, I have been warmly welcomed and supported as a respected member of the team. I firmly believe that I am not merely shouting into the void; there is strength in our collective voice. I invite you to join me in this vital endeavor.

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The Relentless School Nurse: This is What Moms Demand Action Wants for Mother’s Day 2023!

Relentless School Nurse

Coordinate with your local Moms Demand Action chapter. If you are not involved with a local chapter, be in touch with local leaders (see details under “coordinate” above), and they can help you with our tools. Event Promotion: Get the Word Out! We will also have some national recruitment for all events via email and SMS.

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Can You Use CrossFit In Physical Education Classes?

Physical Education Update

For those of you not aware of CrossFit, it’s a strength and conditioning program that employs a mix of aerobic, gymnastics, body weight and Olympic lifting exercises. The goal is to improved fitness in 10 different areas: cardiovascular endurance, strength, stamina, speed, flexibility, power, balance, coordination, agility, and accuracy.

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

Reinventing the Game

Taking the fitness testing precision example above where we consider expecting a fully extended elbows in a push-up for the push phase for testing, how much does that last bit of range of motion for the elbows and shoulders in a prone push-up position contribute to this proxy indicator of upper body elastic strength.