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Components of fitness

Fitness can be divided into 2 categories

Health related - Skills that help you stay physically healthy
Skill related- Skills that improve your performance in sporting activities. .

Over the next few weeks you will learn about a few of the different components through your challenges.

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Agility is part of Skill Related Fitness

Agility is the ability to change direction quickly, with control (eg without falling over).
Agility can also refer to mental quickness and alertness, eg being able to solve maths problems quickly.
Agility is important in every sport! For example dodging in teams games such as rugby and netball; Moving quickly around the court in sports such tennis, squash and volleyball; and controlling spins and movements dance and gymnastics.

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Can I Test my Agility?

Watch and copy the following agility exercises and record your results in the google sheet here:

This is the same fitness sheet from last week, so please remember to find the “Agility” tab at the bottom!

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Introduction Video

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Figure of 8

Keep low around the markers

Stay side on: slide/shuffle, don’t run forwards.

Knees bent, fast feet

Push off outside foot.

PLACE A MAT DOWN IF THE FLOOR IS HARD OR SLIPPERY!

Record the amount of complete figure of 8’s completed in 30 seconds

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2) Side to side

Keep low around the markers

Stay side on: slide/shuffle, don’t run forwards.

Knees bent, fast feet

Push off outside foot.

PLACE A MAT DOWN IF THE FLOOR IS HARD OR SLIPPERY!

Record the amount of complete laps done in 30 seconds

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3) Over and Under

Partner holding plank position / use a chair or

or loosely tie a skipping rope.

Quick jump over

Quickly change body position to crawl under.

PLACE A MAT DOWN IF THE FLOOR IS HARD OR SLIPPERY!

Record the amount of complete laps in 30 seconds

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4) Over and Under figure of 8.

Keep low around the markers

Knees bent, fast feet.

Push off outside foot.

Quickly change body position to crawl under.

PLACE A MAT DOWN IF THE FLOOR IS HARD OR SLIPPERY!

Record the amount of complete figure of 8’s completed in 30 seconds

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5) Square

Sprint to the first corner
Quickly change direction around the cone and sprint diagonally to the next corner
Quickly change direction and sprint to the 3rd corner
Finish off the square by sprinting diagonally back to the beginning

PLACE A MAT DOWN IF THE FLOOR IS HARD OR SLIPPERY!

Record how many times you complete the square in 30 seconds on the google sheet

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Record and Share

Record your scores on the fitness calculator . Don’t forget to click the “agility” tab at the bottom of the google sheet.

Add a comment at the end of your scores (See teacher’s example).

Try to stay fit and agile and perhaps in a few weeks measure again. Has your agility improved?

Remember to keep uploading those videos onto the padlet page too ! https://padlet.com/bps_primarype/gld7wkzol60f