Grade 8 Physical Education Unit 1:?Individual Pursuits- Health, Fitness and Wellness
MYP Unit Question:?How can I improve my health and fitness?
Significant Concept:?FIT For Life
Over a couple of weeks, each class in grade 6, 7, 8, and 9 has been investigating a few topics: health, fitness, and wellness. We have been learning the importance of health, fitness and wellness, as well as creating/doing a circuit training as a whole class. The circuit training we are performing are based on the five components of Health-Related Fitness, but one will mention this later on.
Before one will state the progress we have been making throughout the unit, one will briefly talk about the basic definition of health and fitness. The definition of health, coming up with the explanation with Kenneth and Yuki,?is which is obtained from different parts, such as: physical condition (stout, skinny), mental condition (stress, friends), sanitation, abnormalities, time management, and relationships between your friends and your family. Personally, physical condition is the largest factor of showing how healthy you are due to its perceptible appearance.The most appropriate denotation of ?fitness? is the ability of your body circulating oxygen you inhaled to your muscles, especially the tissues, in the course of increasing your physical exertion. As one have mention in the previous section, there are five components of Health-related Fitness. The components are: Cardiovascular Endurance, Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance, Flexibility and Body Composition. Cardiovascular Endurance, another word for ?Stamina?, is how much your heart and your blood vessels can be able to pump oxygen. Muscular Strength is the maximum quantity of your muscle can produce. Muscular Endurance, is the capability of your muscle to maintain its structure under repeated contraction, disadvantageous to resistance. Flexibility is the ability to move your joints/muscles through full-range of motion. Body Composition, last but not least, is the proportion of fat and fat-free mass (including your muscle) in your body. This briefly explains the term BMI (Body Mass Index), where we check if our value is average, obese or underweight, by measuring our weight, height and our age. We should occasionally test our fitness to investigate our strengths and weaknesses in the five components of Health-related Fitness. We can test our Health-related Fitnesses by taking tests that applies to one of the components. In one?s case, we did a Cooper Test, BMI Test, Sit and Reach Test, Vertical Jump Test, Pushup/Sit-up Test and a Burpie-Jump Test. A Cooper Test, is where you run continuously for approximately 12 minutes and calculate the total distance you run. This test, is to check your level of Cardiovascular Balance. In our case, we ran on a 200 meter track near our school, but normally this is measured on a 400 meter track. As one has mentioned on the previous PE post,?one has ran 2800 meters, which is recorded as ?very good? on the age-group table. For the BMI Test, we measured our height and weight, and calculated digitally in order to work out our BMI. This test is to test your Body Composition. One had a BMI of 19.3, which was an average BMI per age group. The problems when using the BMI test as a standard test are, however, that you have to find the most accurate table in order to find out your level of your Body Mass Index in your age group. This is due to the fact that there are quantities of different BMI table in the internet. Sit and Reach Test, is where you stretch as far as possible, and measure how much you stretched. This test is to examine your Flexibility.? Incidentally, one had the flexibility of 41 centimeters, which is personally better than one has thought of. Vertical Jump Test is where you investigate your Muscular Strength, measuring how much you jump vertically. One had the value of 42 centimeters. Pushup/Sit-up Test, testing your Muscular Endurance, is where you measure how much pushups/sit-ups you can afford to do in a minute. One had the quantity of 51 sit-ups in a minute, and 41 pushups in a minute. Last but not least, Burpie-jump Test, a combination of Cardiovascular Endurance and Agility, is counting how much you can do your burpie-jumps in a minute. One has a number of 30 burpie-jumps in a minute. We can compare our results to other people, by having a look at the general age-group table of each.
In one?s previous post in PE, there is a table showing the levels of the Cardiovascular Endurance, under the date ?18 ix 2012?. In one?s opinion, one anticipates that its CV Endurance level is 9 due to the fact that one runs very often and not gets exhausted, feels great after its run, and plays sports that requires numerous amount of Cardiovascular Endurance. For instance, baseball, basketball and swimming are one?s favorite sports, but having a slight larger value of VO2 than other sports. One is quite fit at Muscular Endurance as well. This is due to the numbers mentioned in the previous paragraph. One has a maximum of 51 sit-ups in a minute, and 41 pushups in a minute, which is actually very fit compared to one?s classmates. One is also fit at flexibility, which is pretty surprising due to the fact that one cannot astride its legs flat on the ground. In the Sit and Reach Test, one records a maximum flexibility of 41 centimeters, which was extremely unbelievable that one has thought of. One?s another well-fit component, will be Body Composition owing to the fact that one?s BMI is 19.3 (Height:158 centimeters, Weight: 48 kilograms), which is in the ?average? based on the most accurate Body Mass Index age-group table.
In spite of the fact that one is pretty fit at Muscular Endurance, Flexibility, Body Composition, and in particular, Cardiovascular Endurance, one?s weakest component is Muscular Strength. As you can have a glance on the previous section, one achieved its highest vertical jump of 42 centimeters, while other people in one?s class has recorded more than one?s value.
Personally, the significant components of health-related fitness are Cardiovascular Endurance, and Flexibility. Cardiovascular Endurance is exceptionally significant in one?s perspective due to the sports that one is involving: baseball, basketball, and especially, swimming. Swimming requires a large amount of Cardiovascular Endurance owing to the fact that it also uses aerobic energy system to charge our movements, which can also improve your CV Endurance more. Flexibility is also another important component from one?s point of view due to the fact that swimming, requires its component in order to swim faster and as less air resistance as possible.
Over the next three months, one would like to set 3 well-thought goals which will further develop one?s components which will need to be?ameliorated. This will be based on Muscular Strength, and some other components. The following goals will last for three months, and perhaps forever:
1. Being conscious when jumping in basketball. (Muscular Strength)
2. Swim more, and as hard as possible in order to train one?s CV Endurance. (Cardiovascular Endurance and Flexibility)
3. Eat healthier food, in order to lose one?s BMI value. (Body Composition)
Overall, I would like to thank Mr.Noon, our Physical Education teacher for this academic year, who not just taught us each of the factors one has mentioned above, but also helped keep up my motivation in hard circuit trainings such as using weights.
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