Year 8 - Physical education
Build your own pairs circuit training programme
Health and wellbeing: long term benefits of physical activity through circuits
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Unit Summary
This unit will explore the correct technique for body weight exercises along with an understanding of how to adapt and modify stations to ensure a training benefit. Pupils will learn about the physical, mental and social benefits of physical activity and how to ensure they are safe when training.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to independently plan, set up and take part in a safe circuit training session.
Key Notes
- Move: exercises are completed safely at a controlled pace and using the correct technique with good body alignment.
- Think: circuit training can be tailored to specific muscles and have a specific component of fitness or sport focus.
- Feel: the self confidence to independently improve your own fitness away from the school environment.
- Connect: designing a mutually agreeable circuit of appropriate stations requires effective communication.
Vocabulary To Learn
- independently: without help from a teacher, on your own
- component of fitness: a specific attribute or characteristic of physical performance that contributes to overall physical fitness (e.g. strength, flexibility)
- muscle group: a set of muscles that work together to perform a movement
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think they should just include their favourite exercises in their own circuit.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: exercises are completed safely at a controlled pace and using the correct technique with good body alignment. Think: circuit training can be tailored to specific muscles and have a specific component of fitness or sport focus.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'independently'
without help from a teacher, on your own.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think they should just include their favourite exercises in their own circuit. Correction: Exercises should be selected and used to target and imporove specific areas of weakness, e.g. certain muscle groups, a components of fitness or a sport specific skill you need more practice at.
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