Some Basic Physical Education Fitness Exercises Explained

To keep fit and healthy one needs exercises, exercises that are health oriented. You need to tailor those physical exercises depending on your needs, for instance if you want to slim off, become skinny or push back a potbelly you need to do exercises that will solve those problems that is where this primary or basic physical exercises comes in.

The contents of the elementary or basic school physical education programme is as follows

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1. Rhythmic ActivitiesThese are the activities which the people performs according to certain regular rhythms or beats. They are often accompanied by musical instruments. Examples of such activities include ryhthmic walking, running, hopping patterns, local and foreign dance patterns.

2. Gymnastics These are self-testing activities in which the individual uses the body in various ways in the performance of a skill or skills. This involves proper management. Gymnastic activities are subdivided into floor exercises and apparatus exercises.

3. Floor Exercises They're those activities performed on the floor without any standing apparatus such as forward roll, backward roll, carwheel. They are commonly known as stunts and tumbling events.

4. Games and Athletic skills This section occupies a wider area in the syllabus. It contains the game skills and the athletic skills. The games skills include games like table tennis, lawn tennis, badminton, volleyball, football etc. The athletics include the track and field events. The track are the sprint races such as 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, hurdling, relays middle distances such as 800m, long distance such as 1500m, 3000m.

5. Physical fitness and conditioning exercises Every actiuity in the physical education programme is supposed to improve the physical fitness of the students. This section however provides separate activities for the development of physical fitness attributes in an individual, such as speed, strength, endurance, flexibility, stamina, agility and so on. This is necessary because physical fitness is the basis for all successful human movement activities. The activities included should not be too strenous or too demanding considering the age and abilities of the student (if it's in a school environment). The examples of fitness activities are press up, sit up, cross country races, circuit training, bench stepping, pull ups etc.

Although the concept of this article focuses on teaching both students and teachers about keeping fit, which is the only way of ensuring learning and teaching goes on smoothly. It's also for non-teachers and students as this article could be applied to your physical fitness schedule.

Really their is no substitute to this basic physical fitness drills even sports super stars like Usain Bolts, America's Tyson gay right to music superstars like Chris Brown, Kim, Beyounce started from the basics to build up those attractive hot and solid bodies. There is no shortcut to success so start now from the basics and walk your way up.