Why physical education?
- Good leadership and followership
- Physical education has undergone many
changes of path in the Philippine schools.
There was a time when physical education
was considered as “education of physical”.
The activities then where termed as drill,
physical training, and calisthenics. All of
this would in all respect today as the
strengthening of the muscles.
- Physical education came from the latin
words “physica- physics and education-
education” meaning, the training of the
bodily organs and power with the view to
the promotion of hearts and vigor. And
this subject is generally taught at pre-school,
elementary, secondary, and tertiary levels
- The main idea of this subject is to help
students acquire skills and develop an
affection for the activities themselves. It
aims to help students develop physical
competence skills and good habits. It assists
in developing smarts, competent
intelligent individuals. It refers to
individual growth and development of the
total body movement. Safety when it
comes to physical activities.
Physical development
- Through cautiously selected physical
education activities. And individual who
participates energetically will develop and
maintain good health and a level of
physical fitness. The attainment of physical
skills can motivate an individual who
participate further physical activities; hence
his growth and development will be
improved.
Social development
- Involvement in PE activities provides
opportunities for the development of
enviable social traits for adjustment to
social life in general. Some traits are
- Friendliness
- Cooperativeness
- Respect for the rights of others
- Good sportsmanship
Emotional development
- The informal nature of PE activities offers
opportunities of self- expression and
emotional mastery. Like
- - self confidence
- Self-control
- Self-reliance
- Courage
Mental development
- Through participation activities. The
individual develops hos mental capacities as
he learns the mechanical principles of
underlying movements, as he obtains
knowledge and understanding of the rules
and strategies of the game and sports, and
as he discover ways to improve his
movement in gymnastics and dance
Physical education helps us develop the
following:
- To develop optimum physical fitness and the
health of the individual
- To produce individuals who can contribute
the economic well being
- To train good leaders with normal integrity
of the highest order and develop other
desirable traits necessary for effective group
participation or group living essentials to the
new society
- To develop creativity and innovativeness
inspired by an aboding faith in God and love
of country and fellowmen
- To install love and pride.
Function of physical education
- Biologic function- refers to the enhancement
of the individual’s growth and development
through body movement
- Integrative function- refers to the personality
integration achieved thru participation
properly selected in physical activities
- Social function- consist of transmitting
values and standards that are consistent with
the needs and ideals of the society.
Fitness
- Is the ability to perform one’s daily task
efficiently without undue fatigue but with
extra “reserve” in case of emergency
3 important aspects
- Being able to perform one’s daily task
without getting too tired before the end of
the day
- Enjoying leisure time in some form of
recreational activities
- Leisure- amount of time that is left after
your daily routine activities
- Recreation – refers to any activities that is
participated in during the leisure time
HRC
- Function of the body’s adaptation to
exercise, it could be developed and maintain
through the regular and proper exercise
program
Endurance
- Ability to exercise without tiring in a long
period of time
Strength
- The ability to exert force against resistance
Body composition
- Refers to the proportion of the lean body
mass to fat body mass
Flexibility
- The ability to move joint with ease through
the normal range of motion and muscles
- Flexion- bending of body segment
- Extension- strengthening of body segment
- Abduction – moving a limb away from the
body
- Adduction- moving limb toward the body
Cardio-vascular endurance
- The ability to exercise at an elevated heart
rate for a designated time while supplying,
adequate oxygen to the body
Somatotyping- or body typing, a system classifying
an individual according to the shape of their body
Ectomorph- as lean and small body build with
greater surface area to mass ratio, bone is relatively
small with slender limbs and low muscle mass
Mesomorph- has a relative predominance of
muscles. Bones are usually large and heavy with
massive limbs, thus contributing to a greater weight
compared to ecto body
Endomorph- predominance of soft roundness and
large digestive viscera. There is a greater percent of
body fat when compare to lean body mass
BMI
- Is a simple calculation using a persons
height and weight
- Kg/mx2 where kg is you weight in kg and
m2 is your height in meters squared, if
height is measured in centimeters, divide it
by 100 to convert to meter
BMI
- 18.5 under
- 18.5- 24.9 normal
- 25-29.9 over weight
- 30.0 obese
SRC
Agility- ability of individual to quickly shift of
change direction of the body from one point to
another
Power- simply define as the ability o release
maximum strength in a short period of time
Reaction time- the amount of time it takes to
maintain physical response once you see that you
needed to take action