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Year 9 - Physical education

Build resilience

Health and wellbeing: healthy leadership and effective reviewing skills

Unit Summary

This unit will explore ways to lead, motivate and set SMART targets for themselves and others to help construct a meaningful fitness based activity. Pupils will also learn about some of the barriers to participation and how to review progress to help maintain motivation.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to demonstrate resilience and focus through a challenging HIIT session.

Key Notes

  • Move: completing a HIIT workout requires the correct technique for energy efficiency, to prevent quick fatigue.
  • Think: knowing how HIIT training can improve fitness like speed, power and aerobic endurance, improves performance.
  • Feel: overcoming a challenge builds resilience and leaves you feeling proud for continuing when it was hard.
  • Connect: resilient leaders inspire others to overcome challenges fostering a sense of shared strength and determination.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • resilience: the ability to keep going even when it is difficult
  • focus: concentrating on the task without being distracted
  • challenge: a difficult task or situation that requires effort and skill to overcome

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils think HIIT is only for experienced athletes.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: completing a HIIT workout requires the correct technique for energy efficiency, to prevent quick fatigue. Think: knowing how HIIT training can improve fitness like speed, power and aerobic endurance, improves performance.

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

the ability to keep going even when it is difficult.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pupils think HIIT is only for experienced athletes. Correction: HIIT can be modified to suit all fitness levels. It can be a valuable and quick tool to improve many components of fitness. The intervals can be shorter for beginners and the exercises less intense.

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