Year 10 - Physical education
Heart rate response to shuttles, shadow runs and sideline challenges
Health and wellbeing: cardio tennis
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Unit Summary
This unit will develop pupils' understanding of a variety of ways to have fun whilst improving personal health and fitness. Their movement skills and cardiovascular endurance will improve whilst engaging in tennis based exercises.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to develop tennis specific movements and skills alongside a fitness focus.
Key Notes
- Move: being positioned on the balls of your feet allows you to move and change direction at speed.
- Think: heart rate increases with exercise intensity and maintaining it above 120 BPM enhances cardiovascular fitness.
- Feel: when you exercise, endorphins are released that create the feel good factor.
- Connect: social support and modelling behaviours help encourage maximal efforts from all.
Vocabulary To Learn
- groundstrokes: shots hit after a bounce from the baseline
- cardiovascular fitness: the ability of your heart, lungs and blood vessels to efficiently deliver oxygen to the working muscles for sustained physical activity
- body conditioning: a full body workout that enhances overall fitness by improving strength, endurance, flexibility and coordination
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think you need to be a good tennis player to participate in cardio tennis.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: being positioned on the balls of your feet allows you to move and change direction at speed. Think: heart rate increases with exercise intensity and maintaining it above 120 BPM enhances cardiovascular fitness.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'groundstrokes'
shots hit after a bounce from the baseline.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think you need to be a good tennis player to participate in cardio tennis. Correction: The focus is on the workout rather than the execution of shots. It is about having fun while exercising. You should prioritise keeping your heart rate elevated for the whole lesson rather than great shots or winning rallies.
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