PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH 11

Learning Activity Sheets

QUARTER 3- WEEKS 5 AND 6

Roles of Sports Activity Assessment in Managing Stress

Introduction:

Physical fitness is a condition that allows the body to effectively cope with
the demands of daily activities and to still have the energy to enjoy other leisure
activities. As an effect, the body feels active, healthy, and eventually, stress-free.
That is why engaging in different sports is very effective to improve our body.
Furthermore, it is also necessary to assess the body’s response to sports activity to
be able to change, modify, or intensify activities that affect the body’s stress levels.

At the end of this module, you are expected to:

 Describe the role of physical activity assessments in managing one’s stress.

True or False
Directions: Identify whether the given statements are true or false. Write your
answer on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Engaging in moderate to vigorous sports is highly discouraged because it

causes your body to get tired and feel stressed.
2. Sports participation triggers brain chemicals that make you feel happier and
more relaxed.
3. Engaging in vigorous sports is not advised to those who want to lose weight
since it makes the muscles thicker, thus increasing one’s weight.
4. Team sports provide a chance to unwind and engage in a satisfying challenge
that improves your fitness.
5. Sports and other forms of physical activity activates the mind thus, causing
difficulty in sleeping.

Have you ever participated in a sports training program? How did your body
respond to the demands of the training?

Sports in almost any form can act as a stress reliever. Being active can boost
your feel-good endorphins and distract you from daily worries. However, sports
participation alone— without assessing oneself— is not an assurance of realizing
physical fitness. It is necessary to assess one’s participation in sports through
observations, questionnaires, interviews, and physiological markers like heart rate,
and calorimetry.

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Sports and Stress

 Sport improves your mood

Whether you are playing sports, working out at a gym, or taking a brisk
walk, physical activity triggers brain chemicals that make you feel happier and
more relaxed. Team sports in particular, provide a chance to unwind and engage in
a satisfying challenge that improves your fitness. They also provide social benefits
by allowing you to connect with teammates and friends in a recreational setting.

 Sport improves your concentration

Regular physical activity helps keep your key mental skills sharp as you age.
This includes sharp thinking, learning, and using good judgment.

 Sport reduces stress and depression

When you are physically active, your mind is distracted from daily stresses.
This can help avoid getting bogged down by negative thoughts. Exercise reduces
the levels of stress hormones in your body.

 Sport improves sleep habits

Sport and other forms of physical activity improve the quality of sleep. It does
this by helping you fall asleep faster and deepening your sleep. Sleeping better can
improve your mental outlook the next day, as well as improve your mood. Just be
careful not to engage in sports too late in the day. Evening practices within a few
hours of bedtime may leave you too energized to sleep.

 Sport helps you maintain a healthy weight

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend sports
participation as a healthy way to maintain weight. Individual sports, such as
running, cycling, and weightlifting, are all particularly effective ways to burn
calories. Staying within a recommended weight range reduces the likelihood of
developing diabetes, high cholesterol, and hypertension.

 Sport boosts your self-confidence

The regular exercise that comes with playing sport can help boost your
confidence and improve your self-esteem. As your strength, skills, and stamina
increase through playing sports, your self-image will improve as well. Sport provide
you with a sense of mastery and control, which often leads to a feeling of pride and
self-confidence.

Activity 1.1

Direction: Complete the table by listing sports activities or other related physical
activities that you have participated to in last 12 months— and that you wish to
continue, and the unhealthy habits that you plan to discontinue.

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Sports and Other Related Activities You Habits You Want to Discontinue
Want to Continue

Follow-up questions:
 What are your reasons for continuing the sports and other related activities?
How did these affect your stress levels?
 What are your reasons for discontinuing the above listed habits? How did
these affect your stress levels?

Activity 1.2
Direction: Observe your behavior in sports participation in the last 12 months
then answer the questions that follow.
1. Have you practiced sports or physical exercise in clubs, gyms, schools,
parks, streets, or at home for the last 12 months?
2. Which sport or physical exercise did you practice with most frequency?
3. How many hours per day did you practice the activity?
4. How many days per week did you practice the activity?
5. How many months per year have you practiced the activity?
6. How did your participation in sports and other related activities affect your
stress levels, physically, mentally, and emotionally?

Activity 1.3. How intense are you?

Directions: Perform any sport or any sport-related activity of your choice for 10
minutes then complete the table below by supplying the needed information.

Describe the Playing for 3 mins Playing for 6 mins Playing for 10
activity based on mins
the following:
How are you
feeling
How is your
breathing
How is your sweat

How is your
talking ability

Reflection:
(answer in 3 to 5 sentences each)
 What are the indicators that your body is responding to the activity?
 After accomplishing, and reflecting on your answers, what will you do
differently the next time you participate in sports?

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*Note: Submit a video recording of your performance. You may use time lapse in
recording your video.

A. Enumeration.
a. Ways in which sports activity and participation are assessed:
1.
2.
3.
4.
b. Mental, emotional, and physical benefits of sports participation:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Essay.
In 3 to 5 sentences, explain the roles of sports activity assessment in managing
stress.

Rubrics for Needs Improvement Approaching Good Excellent

Essay Standards

1 2 3 4
Ideas and There is no clear or You put thought into What you are writing What you are writing
Content specific explanation this, but there is no about is clear. You about is clear and well
in answer to the real evidence of answered the question. expressed, including
question. learning. More Some support may be specific examples to
specific information lacking, or your demonstrate what you
is needed, or you sentences may be a bit learned. Well done!
need to follow the awkward. Overall, a
directions more decent job.
closely.
Use of No terms from the Only one term from Your answer included Your answer included
Terms lesson are used. the lesson is used in several terms from the all the terms from the
the answer. Try for a lesson, demonstrating lesson that applied to
few more, next time adequate the question asked. All
understanding of the terms are fully defined
material. and used in the proper
context.
Sentence Sentences are Some sentences are Sentences are complete Sentences are complete
Fluency incomplete or too complete and easy to and able to be and they connect to
long. It makes understand. Others understood. one another easily
reading them require some work. when they are read out
difficult. loud. Your writing
'flows.'
Conventions Few end marks or Mistakes using end Use of punctuation No punctuation or
capital letters. marks or capitals as marks and capitals, as structural mistakes.
Answers contain well as spelling well as spelling, is No spelling errors.
numerous spelling mistakes make the mostly correct. Few Your writing shows full
or structural errors. writing hard to read. errors exist in your awareness of the rules
answer. of English use.

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Britannica, E. (2021). Sports. Retrieved from Britannica:
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Norfolk: https://www.activenorfolk.org/news/2016/05/the-mental-benefits-
Active Norfolk. (2016, May 16). The Mental Benefits of Sport. Retrieved from Active
References
Assessment
1. observations
2. questionnaires
3. interviews
4. physiological
markers
1. improves your
mood
2. improves your
Pre-test
concentration
1. False 3. reduces stress
2. True and depression
3. False 4. improves sleep
4. True habits
5. False 5. helps maintain a
healthy weight
6. boosts your self-
confidence