Fitness education is the promotion of general activities such as walking the dog, playing sports and going on a bike ride, as well as promoting exercise that will facilitate a healthy lifestyle. (Virgilio, 2012) By promoting exercise, and activities that your students can participate in, you are striving to reach the goal as a physical educator is to make physical activity a part of their daily routine. By doing this students are being shown what it like feels to be physically active, and how fun that can be for them. A common misconception about physical activity or engaging in activities that are aimed at improving one’s fitness means going to the gym and lifting weights, or hopping on a treadmill and running. Although that is the most conventional
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The first goal of fitness education is to get the students to experience what vigorous activity feels like. (Hinson, 1995) The idea behind this is to teach the kids how it feels when they push their bodies to the limit, and engage in maximal exercise. By showing them how this feels, they can then understand what their bodies are capable of and where they need to be. The second goal is creating self-responsibility. (Hinson, 1995) Self-responsibility is simple in its relation to fitness, because it is the responsibility of the person, and that person alone to be active. Children need to learn that being active and engaging in regular exercise is their responsibility, and it is a choice. The crucial step in becoming someone who is habitually active is the realization that one’s level of fitness is based on what they put into becoming fit. Finally the third goal to incorporate when implementing or creating a fitness education plan is giving children an idea of what a healthy lifestyle is about. It is important to let the students know that a lifestyle is a matter of making decisions that have a positive influence on their lives. (Hinson, 1995) In terms of fitness, it becomes about making decisions about whether or not to engage in physical activity, or to sit on the couch and play video …show more content…
By the time the students get into high school, especially in grades eleven and twelve have developed a sense of their own level of fitness and self-responsibility regarding their level of physical activity. The only downside to this is that some children, if they haven’t had a good experience with physical activity or even physical education class, they have a negative connotation towards exercise. This is clearly seen in the drastic increase in obesity rates. According to the CDC, “no state had a prevalence of obesity less than 20%.” (CDC, "Overweight and Obesity", 2014) These students are about to become adults and it is important to stress the benefits that being healthy and fit has. Through fitness education you can stress that as a fit adult you are able to much more, and have far less limitations than someone who is overweight or
The first goal of fitness education is to get the students to experience what vigorous activity feels like. (Hinson, 1995) The idea behind this is to teach the kids how it feels when they push their bodies to the limit, and engage in maximal exercise. By showing them how this feels, they can then understand what their bodies are capable of and where they need to be. The second goal is creating self-responsibility. (Hinson, 1995) Self-responsibility is simple in its relation to fitness, because it is the responsibility of the person, and that person alone to be active. Children need to learn that being active and engaging in regular exercise is their responsibility, and it is a choice. The crucial step in becoming someone who is habitually active is the realization that one’s level of fitness is based on what they put into becoming fit. Finally the third goal to incorporate when implementing or creating a fitness education plan is giving children an idea of what a healthy lifestyle is about. It is important to let the students know that a lifestyle is a matter of making decisions that have a positive influence on their lives. (Hinson, 1995) In terms of fitness, it becomes about making decisions about whether or not to engage in physical activity, or to sit on the couch and play video …show more content…
By the time the students get into high school, especially in grades eleven and twelve have developed a sense of their own level of fitness and self-responsibility regarding their level of physical activity. The only downside to this is that some children, if they haven’t had a good experience with physical activity or even physical education class, they have a negative connotation towards exercise. This is clearly seen in the drastic increase in obesity rates. According to the CDC, “no state had a prevalence of obesity less than 20%.” (CDC, "Overweight and Obesity", 2014) These students are about to become adults and it is important to stress the benefits that being healthy and fit has. Through fitness education you can stress that as a fit adult you are able to much more, and have far less limitations than someone who is overweight or