Year 10 - Physical education
Hydration and fuelling your body for exercise
Health and wellbeing: commitment to a personalised training plan
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Unit Summary
This unit will develop pupils' ability to design and carry out a training programme with a focus on physical fitness and commitment to exercise that is enjoyable and tailored. Pupils will also learn about nutrition to help support them in living a healthy and active life beyond school.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to demonstrate how keeping hydrated and fuelling your body correctly can give you enough energy to participate successfully in training.
Key Notes
- Move: applying maximum effort and the correct technique leads to success.
- Think: knowing when to increase hydration and adapt your fuelling enables us to gain the most success from training.
- Feel: training feels good and is effective when correct fuelling and hydration are in place to provide enough energy.
- Connect: listening to peers and providing feedback on fuelling habits allows an opportunity to learn from each other.
Vocabulary To Learn
- hydration: getting enough water into your body to keep it healthy and functioning properly
- fuelling: eating and drinking the right foods and liquids to give your body the energy it needs to perform well
- energy: the ability to perform activities and sustain effort
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Underestimating the amount of water the body needs throughout the day (not just during exercise) to maintain hydration.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: applying maximum effort and the correct technique leads to success. Think: knowing when to increase hydration and adapt your fuelling enables us to gain the most success from training.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'hydration'
getting enough water into your body to keep it healthy and functioning properly.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Underestimating the amount of water the body needs throughout the day (not just during exercise) to maintain hydration. Correction: The general recommendation is 2 litres of water per day, however when training, more should be consumed.
More Lessons In This Unit
- A cardiovascular base Study Guide
- Future goals and healthy habits Study Guide
- Injury and injury prevention Study Guide
- Mental health and stress management Study Guide
- Nutritional awareness Study Guide
- Planning a training programme Study Guide
- Review your progress Study Guide
- Routines for daily flexibility and mobility Study Guide
- Sleep and recovery Study Guide
- Strength training for all Study Guide
- Your current fitness and goals Study Guide
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