KS4 · Physical education · Year 10
Heart rate response to shuttles, shadow runs and sideline challenges
Health and wellbeing: cardio tennis
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Your learning goal
I can develop tennis specific movements and skills alongside a fitness focus.
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Heart rate response to shuttles, shadow runs and sideline challenges: 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 develop tennis specific movements and skills alongside a fitness focus.
Key learning points
- Move: being positioned on the balls of your feet allows you to move and change direction at speed.
- Think: heart rate increases with exercise intensity and maintaining it above 120 BPM enhances cardiovascular fitness.
- Feel: when you exercise, endorphins are released that create the feel good factor.
- Connect: social support and modelling behaviours help encourage maximal efforts from all.
Words to know
- groundstrokes
- shots hit after a bounce from the baseline
- cardiovascular fitness
- the ability of your heart, lungs and blood vessels to efficiently deliver oxygen to the working muscles for sustained physical activity
- body conditioning
- a full body workout that enhances overall fitness by improving strength, endurance, flexibility and coordination
Common mistakes
Pupils think you need to be a good tennis player to participate in cardio tennis.
The focus is on the workout rather than the execution of shots. It is about having fun while exercising. You should prioritise keeping your heart rate elevated for the whole lesson rather than great shots or winning rallies.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Music is a great way to reinforce the high-energy and social focus of cardio tennis lessons.