Heart Rate & Resistance Training Re-imagined For Physical Education & Sports
During strength training in sports and in physical education class, how can one measure the progress of our most vital muscle?
Urgent: How to Individualize PE & Sports
In physical education, 50% of their grade is often effort. How can effort be evaluated without heart rate technology?
The SOS Challenge For Physical Education: Seeking Out Solutions, Strengthening Our Skills, & Sharing Our Success
I believe our profession needs an awakening to the future. It is my belief that we must be inspired to rethink how we deliver physical education to our students in the automated world we live in. How do we, as physical educators, capture the interest, and the imagination of our students today?
Branch 2: Strength Branch
It’s time to add that all-important exercise stimulus: resistance training. Following many of the same principles that weight lifters use, athletes stimulate muscle power by applying appropriate resistance stimuli to the specific activity they are training for. That is, it is known that if you “overload” the specific muscle by repeatedly asking it to work…
Health in a Heartbeat – Male and Female Muscular Strength
The Differences in Muscular Strength Between Men And Women You probably think that men are stronger than women. In fact, it depends on how you measure muscular strength. If you measure absolute strength, that is the total amount that an average man compared with an average woman can lift, then it is true. In…
Health in a Heartbeat – Strength Training: Myths and Facts
There are only three types of strength exercises: Isokinetic strength training: slow-moving exercises through a full range of motion against a constant force or resistance. Isotonic strength training: moving weight against resistance as in weight lifting. Isometric strength training: applying force against an immovable object, such as a wall. Because of its close association with…
Be a Better Runner in 2017 – 7 Rules of Strength Training for Runners
**This post is one of several in an excerpt series from the book, Be a Better Runner by Sally Edwards & Carl Foster** Lifting weights is good for everyone of every age. But for maximum benefit, you must go into the gym the same way you do when you train for a race: with…