PE and Health Lesson Plans: Fitness Unit Plans
Woo Hooo! I'm sooooo excited to share our latest resource, Fitness Lesson Plans!
Just before Winter Break, I wrapped up this unit in our brand spanking new fitness center! Yes, can you believe it, our middle school has it's very own fitness center! Overall, I was very happy with this unit. And I'm beyond excited to share it with you! Here are the dets...
Unit Outline: Fitness Lesson Plans
I organized this unit a bit differently from most of my PE units. Usually, we're in the gymnasium the whole class period, moving around and learning. However, with this unit, we split up our time between the classroom and the fitness center. The first half of each class period was spent in the classroom discussing topics and concepts about physical health. And for the second half, we were in the fitness center working out.
The topics we discussed during the first part of each lesson:
Day 1: Introduction to Physical Health
Day 2: The Value of Fitness
Day 3: Components of Fitness & the FITT Principle
Day 4: Goal Writing
Day 5: Designing Workouts
Day 6: Creating a Personal Fitness Program
The workouts we did during the second half of the class:
Day 1: BOSU AMRAP (As Many Rounds As Possible)
Day 2: Plyometric Circuit
Day 3: Yoga Ball Rounds for Time
Day 4: Dumbbells Pyramid
Day 5: Kettlebell Ladder
Day 6: AFAP (As Fast As You Can)
Each workout introduced students to a different workout format and to various fitness equipment.
What's included in these no-prep unit plans:
Teaching guide with instruction videos, detailed directions, teaching PowerPoints, grading rubrics, and an answer key for each lesson
Quick print student packet with student worksheets and grading rubrics
Six workouts with instruction posters
Two visual vocab sorts - - Physical Health and the Components of Fitness
Exercise Posters - - 50+ visual and written descriptions of exercises
Physical Health discussion sheet
I'm really happy with how this unit turned out and so excited to finally be sharing this unit with other health and PE teachers! Plus, I'm SUPER happy that I won't have to prep this unit again, it's all ready to go for next year (yay for easy prep)!