Transcript WHAT IS FITNESS?

WHAT IS FITNESS?
LICEO SCIENTIFICO “G. MARINELLI” UDINE
A PE LESSON IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR CLIL COURSE
THEACHERS. PAGANO GABRIELLA-PIZZO MARGHERITA
Fitness is the ability to meet the demands of the environment.
If you are fit,you can cope with all your tasks and activities without getting
too tired, and still have energy left to emergencies.
Fitness is divided into two areas, general and specific
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GENERAL FITNESS
 General Fitness concerns the day-to day
working of your body.
 It has several aspects:
 Stamina or endurance-Cardiovascular and Muscolar end.
 Strength
 Flexibility or suppleness
 Speed
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Stamina or endurance
Read the following description and underline
all the words concerning sports and diseases
in this paragraph:
• Endurance exercises include any activity that
increases heart rate and respiratory rate. This
includes walking, jogging, running, biking, rope
jumping, and many others. Over time these
activities improve the health of the lungs, heart,
and blood vessels. Most importantly however,
endurance exercises can also delay or prevent
many diseases including diabetes, heart
disease, stroke, and certain cancers.
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GENERAL FITNESS
• Match the words to the activities
• a) Stamina
1)Reaction
• b) Strength
2) Stretching
• c) Flexibility
3) Power
• d) Speed
4) Running
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Strength
• Read the following description and underline what is
improved and decreased by regular physical activity :
• Regular physical activity for the young improves
strength, builds lean muscle, and decreases body fat. It
also builds stronger bones that last a lifetime. Physical
well-being also affects you emotionally and mentally.
Physical activity can improve your mood, reduce stress
and depression, and increase self-esteem. You must
acknowledge the role of physical activity in a healthy
growth. You can maintain a physically active lifestyle
by providing yourself with encouragement and
opportunities for physical activity. You should plan
outings and events that allow and encourage your
friends to be active.
• Translate the words you have found.
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Flexibility or suppleness
• Stretching, though often overlooked, plays a vital role in
keeping muscles and joints strong and pliable so they are
less susceptible to injury. That’s why it’s such an important
part of warming up and cooling down.
• Spending a few minutes a day doing slow, deliberate
stretches can also help you manage stress more effectively
giving you a chance to momentarily shut off outside
stressors, and focus, physically and mentally, on your
activity.
• A good routine should work each of the major muscle
groups and needn’t take long. 5 to 10 minutes is all you
need.
• Answer: at what time and how long do you practise
stretching?
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Speed
• Speed work and speed exercises: speed
work doesn’t mean drudgery on the track,
and it should never be "rubbish speed"!
• Tags:
• marathon training
• coaching
• flexibility
• speed training
• weight training
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Glossary
• ENDURANCE
•RESISTENZA
• STRENGTH
•FORZA
• FLEXIBILITY
•MOBILITA’ ARTIC.
• SPEED
•VELOCITA’
Find 10 other words and translate them
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Exercises
• 1) Write down another word for endurance
• 2) Describe the two different kinds of
endurance
• 3) Who do you think needs greater
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flexibility?
• 4) What do you know about stretching?
• 5) Write down everything you’ve learned about strength
• 6) What doesn’t speed work mean?
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FITNESS AND AEROBIC
After explaining what fitness means, let’s move on to practical
activity. In the gym we shall follow a standard lesson based on a
series of basic aerobic exercises, one of the best to obtain:
• healthy and balanced phsycophysical well-being
• effective development of physical abilities
(endurance, strenght speed,flexibility )
•physical sensitivity,awareness of one’s body and abilities
•better control of respiratory rate
You can easily perform this activity because it doesn’t require
special tools, all you need is a stereo and a mat on the floor
The following is a simplified explanation of aerobic exercise
Read and translate the text below.
Underline unknown words
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AEROBIC EXERCISES
• AEROBICS EXERCISES are those which create an
increased demand of oxygen over an extended period
of time, such as jogging.
• Anaerobic , on the other hand, means “ without oxygen”
• Aerobic exercises train the heart, lungs and
cardiovascular system to process and deliver oxygen
quickly and efficiently to every part of the body
• As the heart muscle becomes stronger and more
efficient, it is able to pump more blood with each stroke
and in fewer strokes, thus facilitating the rapid transport
of oxygen to all parts of the body.
• An aerobically fit cardiovascular system will allow the
individual to work longer, more vigorously and recover
more quickly.
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LESSON 1
BASIC EXERCISE PROGRAM
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Istruction (1 minute)
Warm-up: a balanced combination of static stretching
and rhythmic exercises ( 7 minutes)
Standing exercises: exercises from the following
groups in order of preference: standing leg work, arms,
chest, and shoulders (4 minutes)
Aerobics and postaerobic cooling-down (20 minutes)
Waist work (5 minutes)
Floorwork : exercises from the following groups in
order of preference: outer thigh (4 minutes ), buttocks
(5 minutes ), inner thigh ( 4 minutes ), abdominals (5
minutes )
Static stretching (5 minutes)
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