Welcome to Physical Education! Our main purpose/goal will be to keep our bodies and minds as healthy as possible during this time while also maintaining social distancing.

Weekly plan: 11/9-11/13

Objective: Practice social distancing activities as it pertains to PE

1. Fitness testing-If you haven't turned yours in yet.

   1. Watch the video that's been sent on google classroom

   2. Set up the tests

   3. Record your results on your copy of the google doc

   4. Upload your results to Google Classroom to the assignment labeled "Fitness Testing Results"

2. PE logs

   1. You need to record your activity for 4 days each week

   2. You theme for week 4 is Cardiovascular endurance.

      1. Each day of exercise this week needs to relate to this component of fitness

   3. Upload it to "Week 4 11/9-11/13"

Hope to see you all soon!

Physical Activity and Exercise is important to strengthen the immune system and keep you healthy anytime, especially during COVID

• The benefits of physical activity and exercise have been demonstrated across the lifespan. We are meant to MOVE and many of our body’s systems work better when we are consistently physically active.

• Physical activity and exercise can be effective treatment strategies for symptoms of both depression and anxiety.

• Each day is a new opportunity to engage in physical activity and exercise that can bring short and long-term benefits for mood, sleep, and physical health.

• For managing symptoms of depression, some research suggests that elevated levels of aerobic activity (exercise that significantly raises our heart rates) may be associated with greater reductions in depressive symptoms.

• For children and adolescents, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and exercise during the day are associated with elevations in self-esteem, improved concentration, reductions in depressive symptoms, and improvements in sleep.

• Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (such as speed-walking or jogging) has been shown to help reduce the use of alcohol and other substances. Additionally, participation in regular physical activity is shown to boost the immune system.

• We recommend finding physical activities that you enjoy and to share your experience with others. At the same time, there is also evidence to suggest that exercise can be helpful to mood even if the act of doing the exercise is not as enjoyable.

• Although many things feel beyond our control right now, we do have the ability to be creative and to build physical activity and exercise into each of our days.

We may even look back on this difficult time

as the turning point when we

learned new ways to build

our emotional resilience and

our physical health.

• Exercise has a major effect on the immune system. Multiple studies have now linked moderate exercise with:

1. Decreased rates of influenza

2. Decreased rates of Pneumonia

3. Decrease in Diabetes

4. Decrease in Heart disease

• Staying active supports your immune system in a variety of ways, including reducing inflammation, increasing the presence of innate immune cells, and positively affecting your gut microbiome, all of which support your body’s defence mechanisms. ‍

• Regular exercise has also been shown to improve your ability to regulate your immune system, which may be essential for avoiding the severe symptoms of COVID-19 caused by immune system over-reactions.

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• While the best way to protect yourself against coronavirus infection is to follow guidelines:

  • • regularly washing your hands

    • avoiding physical contact with others through social distancing

    • exercise

• Exercise doesn’t need to be long, intense, or unpleasant to be effective. Moderate activities such as walking or jogging lasting less than an hour can provide a range of immune benefits.