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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. Exercise is a metabolic activity every bit as much as eating is. Ridiculous? So where does this leave us?

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The Urgency for Applying Individualized Instruction in Physical Education & Sports

Heartzones

Applying the principles for intense exercise requires immediate feedback. These principles of individualized instruction, in group settings, become impossible to implement for intense exercise, when there is no immediate feedback. What individual exercise intensity records are documented from physical education or sport?

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New Heart Rate Recovery Feature from Firstbeat Sports Provides More Insights for Coaches

First Beat

Instead a short Sub-Maximal Fitness Test (SMFT) can be performed in as little as 4-minutes, providing you with reliable data upon which to base your assessment of current performance levels (Scott, et al., HRR essentially reflects parasympathetic reactivation following exercise, i.e., recovery. 2017; Veugelers, et al., Rabbani, A.,

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Meaningful physical education programs and a 'main theme' curriculum model

Learning Through Sport

Physical activity and fitness orientated physical education. Physical education therefore needs to provide time to achieve physical fitness and/or physical activity objectives, teach goal setting for physical activity to achieve health outcomes, and teach students how to design physical activity and/or fitness programs.

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Sleep Lesson Plans For Students

PLT4M

Quality: Beyond getting enough sleep, many students struggle with sleep quality because of external factors like diet, exercise, and sleep hygiene habits. Incorporating sleep lesson plans into PE and health is also a natural fit. Many students struggle to fall asleep, stay asleep, and have restful, restorative sleep. Skein, M.,

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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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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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