KS3 · Physical education · Year 8
Apply the basic principles of training to your circuit
Health and wellbeing: long term benefits of physical activity through circuits
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can apply the principles of training to my circuit.
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Apply the basic principles of training to your circuit: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can apply the principles of training to my circuit.
Key learning points
- Move: a full circuit training session is completed with good technique and full range of movement at the joints.
- Think: progressive overload is incorporated into each station by increasing the reps or decreasing the rest interval.
- Think: adaptations occur as a result of regular training, however if training stops, reversibility will occur.
- Feel: to keep working when progressive overload has been applied to the circuit requires increased resilience.
- Connect: being an effective gym buddy involves supportive feedback on technique and setting targets.
Words to know
- progressive
- gradual increase in the intensity or amount of exercise
- overload
- increasing the level of stress placed upon the body during exercise so fitness gains occur, but without potential for injury
- reversibility
- losing fitness levels when exercise is stopped (e.g. due to an injury)
Common mistakes
Pupils think that body adaptations will occur and stay from training only once.
Body adaptations like stronger muscles or better endurance don’t happen after just one training session. To see improvements, you need to train regularly. If you stop training, your body can start to lose those gains – this is called reversibility.
For parents, carers and teachers
- You may wish to get pupils to use their planned circuit from the previous lesson to add progressive overload to the content, which can then run into further lessons as pupils work through their 6 week plan of circuits, adding more progressive overload each week.