Year 8 - Physical education
Sport specific circuits
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 take part and design your own sport specific circuit.
Key Notes
- Move: performing sport specific actions with good technique repeatedly, can improve muscle memory and skill level.
- Think: stations can be adapted to replicate movements required by specific sports (e.g. basketball - dribbling).
- Feel: circuit training can help with confidence and drive to improve performance in a specific sport.
- Connect: working with others to monitor and motivate their performance on a station requires energy and enthusiasm
Vocabulary To Learn
- specific: making training specific to the sport being played, movements used, muscles used or energy systems used
- adaptations: the changes to an athlete's body as a result of regular training over a sustained amount of time (e.g. 6 weeks)
- skill: a learned action used in sport
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think that circuit training is solely to improve components of fitness but not for developing skilled sports performance.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: performing sport specific actions with good technique repeatedly, can improve muscle memory and skill level. Think: stations can be adapted to replicate movements required by specific sports (e.g. basketball - dribbling).
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'specific'
making training specific to the sport being played, movements used, muscles used or energy systems used.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think that circuit training is solely to improve components of fitness but not for developing skilled sports performance. Correction: While circuit training is great for improving components of fitness, it can also be designed to develop sport-specific skills. For example, in basketball, a circuit can include dribbling, shooting and passing stations, alongside fitness exercises.
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