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Year 9 - Physical education

Design your programme

Athletics: fitness development of pace or power

Unit Summary

This unit will develop pupils' independence by supporting them to train and improve their pacing to sustain steady state running and/ or their power. Pupils will be exposed to different types of training as they apply the FITT principle to improve their fitness through track and field activities.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to design a personalised training programme to meet your individual needs and goals.

Key Notes

  • Move: moving with enough intensity to overload the body is essential for improving fitness.
  • Think: choosing a drill that matches your goal helps target the right areas for improvement.
  • Feel: pushing the body to overload can feel rewarding when it's understood that it will improve fitness.
  • Connect: working with others can keep you motivated and support each other's progress.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • overload: making the body work harder than it is used to so it can improve
  • intensity: how hard the body is working during exercise
  • motivation: the drive to keep working hard towards your goal

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils may believe that improving at a physical activity requires them to perform the event in full repeatedly.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: moving with enough intensity to overload the body is essential for improving fitness. Think: choosing a drill that matches your goal helps target the right areas for improvement.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'overload'

making the body work harder than it is used to so it can improve.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pupils may believe that improving at a physical activity requires them to perform the event in full repeatedly. Correction: Help pupils to understand that training drills which overload the body are much more effective when training to achieve a goal, rather than simply repeating the full performance.

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