Planning a training programme
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can plan a training programme using suitable training methods and progressive overload.
Key learning points
- Move: challenging ourselves to work at our maximum level, without compromising technique, will help prevent injury.
- Think: applying progressive overload throughout a training programme will provide challenge and decrease boredom.
- Feel: planning a specific training plan that meets your needs gives a feeling of control.
- Connect: communicating with others to share ideas helps nurture friendships and learning from each other.
Keywords
Fitness - the ability to meet the demands of the environment
Training programme - a structured approach to exercise designed to improve fitness and achieve specific goals
Progressive overload - gradually increasing the amount of stress on the body so fitness gains occur
Common misconception
Progressive overload only applies when weight training.
Gradually increasing frequency, intensity and time or altering the type of exercise through the manipulation of different training methods can develop all fitness components. Clear examples must be shared across activities other than weight training.
Teacher tip
Support with ideas for progressions for skill based activities to ensure they overload the body.
Equipment
one ball per pupil - mixture of footballs, basketballs/netballs, cones, stopwatches
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What is most important about our performance when we complete exercises that are designed to improve our fitness?
Q2.What must happen at the start of every training programme?
Q3.What would it mean if our fitness had plateaued?
Q4.What do we need when training programmes are really challenging?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What component of fitness can we develop by applying progressive overload?
Q2.What does applying progressive overload to training programmes prevent?
Q3.Why is it important in the planning phase to communicate and share our ideas?
Q4.What must not be sacrificed when challenging our body to work at its maximum to achieve our aims?
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To help you plan your 10 physical education lesson on: Planning a training programme, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom.
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