Creative Fitness Activities

Fitness activities should be enjoyable in physical education. Use the examples below to help you incorporate creative and fun fitness activities into your physical education program.

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Incorporating Fitness into Lessons

Incorporating fitness concepts into lessons is a great alternative to the traditional lecture format and it helps students experience the connections. See our examples and come up with your own (Click Here to Download PDF).

incorporating fitness concepts into units

Fitness does not have to be taught on Fitness Days, it can also be incorporated into other units. See our examples for Volleyball (many of these came from Chad Triolet's 2014 AAHPERD Conference) and/or come up with your own (Click Here to Download PDF). Here are more examples: Example 1, Example 2, and Example 3.

Interval Running Games

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PEDOMETER and Heart Rate ACTIVITIES

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Fitness Scavenger Hunt

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Additional Activities

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Adventure Racing - Overview

Adventure racing is an exciting sport, unlike any other. It might be defined as a team obstacle course race. While previously seen as extreme, adventure races have changed over the years. What used to take expensive equipment like kayaks and bicycles, as well as a whole lot of training time, has morphed into super fun runs that require less specialized training where you use your fitness and wits to complete a variety of obstacles. It is an opportunity for activity that is accessible to both students and adults.

Below are free SPARTAN Races themed adventure races for physical education created by 2019 National High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year Dan DeJager in collaboration with SPARK and SPARTAN Races (as part of our Coalition for Quality Physical Education). It is a lesson format where students work on grit, perseverance, cooperation, and many other social skills. Many students find it a more enjoyable alternative to the traditional mile run, even though they cover the same distance and more! These races are great fitness activities, allow the teacher to conduct informal assessments, and can be designed for a number of purposes: practice psychomotor skills, practice problem solving, and/or incorporating cross-disciplinary content. More information and examples can be found in the book Adventure Racing Activities for Fun and Fitness and this article Adventure Racing CORE: A Non-Traditional Approach to the Physical Education Lesson.

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