Year 8 - Physical education
Set up a basic circuit
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 set up and take part in a variety of different exercise stations safely.
Key Notes
- Move: circuit training requires all equipment to be set up safely in a suitable space.
- Move: each station should be completed with good technique, moving on when the set time is complete.
- Think: exercise duration and intensity used in circuit training can be adapted to improve different types of fitness.
- Feel: self-motivation is required to keep working, even on stations that are not as easy or enjoyable as others.
- Connect: working with others on a station helps to increase motivation to push each other to perform at your best.
Vocabulary To Learn
- circuit training: a series of exercises or activities completed in a specific order, each followed by a rest period
- station: where a specific exercise is performed for a set time or number of repetitions
- training programme: structured plans or approaches to exercise designed to improve fitness and achieve specific goals
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think a circuit has to involve exercises in a circle.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: circuit training requires all equipment to be set up safely in a suitable space. Move: each station should be completed with good technique, moving on when the set time is complete.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'circuit training'
a series of exercises or activities completed in a specific order, each followed by a rest period.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think a circuit has to involve exercises in a circle. Correction: A circuit is a series of exercises done a specific order but does not have to be set up like a circle.
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