Year 10 - Physical education
Injury and injury prevention
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 plan a risk assessment to prevent hazards causing injuries within the training programme.
Key Notes
- Move: before starting exercise, checks should be completed for anything that could present as a risk.
- Think: risk management practices keep everyone safe, such as designated areas, rules and limits.
- Feel: creating a risk assessment allows a feeling of safety, comfort and trust in the planned training.
- Connect: prioritising everyone's safety creates a mutually supportive environment where everyone feels secure.
Vocabulary To Learn
- risk: the possibility of an injury occurring
- hazard: something that could present as a risk and may cause an injury (e.g. a slippery floor)
- prevention: stopping or reducing the likelihood of something dangerous happening
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Every risk can be planned for.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: before starting exercise, checks should be completed for anything that could present as a risk. Think: risk management practices keep everyone safe, such as designated areas, rules and limits.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'risk'
the possibility of an injury occurring.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Every risk can be planned for. Correction: There may be some risks that cannot be planned for, so we must be able to dynamically risk assess on an ongoing basis (e.g. the piece of equipment you were planning to use breaks and becomes unfit for purpose).
More Lessons In This Unit
- A cardiovascular base Study Guide
- Future goals and healthy habits Study Guide
- Hydration and fuelling your body for exercise 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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