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- Year 10
Hydration and fuelling your body for exercise
I can demonstrate how keeping hydrated and fuelling my body correctly can give me enough energy to participate successfully in training.
- Year 10
Hydration and fuelling your body for exercise
I can demonstrate how keeping hydrated and fuelling my body correctly can give me enough energy to participate successfully in training.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: applying maximum effort and the correct technique leads to success.
- Think: knowing when to increase hydration and adapt your fuelling enables us to gain the most success from training.
- Feel: training feels good and is effective when correct fuelling and hydration are in place to provide enough energy.
- Connect: listening to peers and providing feedback on fuelling habits allows an opportunity to learn from each other.
Keywords
Hydration - getting enough water into your body to keep it healthy and functioning properly
Fuelling - eating and drinking the right foods and liquids to give your body the energy it needs to perform well
Energy - the ability to perform activities and sustain effort
Common misconception
Underestimating the amount of water the body needs throughout the day (not just during exercise) to maintain hydration.
The general recommendation is 2 litres of water per day, however when training, more should be consumed.
To help you plan your year 10 physical education lesson on: Hydration and fuelling your body for exercise, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 10 physical education lesson on: Hydration and fuelling your body for exercise, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
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Explore more key stage 4 physical education lessons from the Health and wellbeing: commitment to a personalised training plan unit, dive into the full secondary physical education curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
additional materials, skipping ropes, pupils own water bottles, 4 - 8 benches, central timer
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
