WHAT IS FITNESS?

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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. Thats why its 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 neednt 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
  doesnt 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

• RESISTENZA
• FORZA
• MOBILITA ARTIC.
• VELOCITA

• ENDURANCE
• STRENGTH
• FLEXIBILITY
• SPEED
• 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
• flexibility?
• 4) What do you know about stretching?
• 5) Write down everything youve learned about
  strength
• 6) What doesnt speed work mean?

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FITNESS AND AEROBIC

• After explaining what fitness means, lets 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 ones body and
  abilities
• better control of respiratory rate
• You can easily perform this activity because it
  doesnt 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 1BASIC EXERCISE PROGRAM

• 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)