Heart Education With Web Resource: Strategies, Lessons, Science, and Technology for Cardiovascular Fitness
Deve Swaim
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: 1450401848
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Capitalize on teens’ fascination with technology! Heart Education: Strategies, Lessons, Science, and Technology for Cardiovascular Fitness uses heart monitoring technology to help students learn concepts of cardiovascular fitness in a fun and innovative way. With the benefits of immediate and constant feedback, heart rate monitoring technology provides an engaging way for students to monitor their exercise sessions.
Heart Education is based on the author’s principles of Heart Zones Education, a comprehensive cardiovascular fitness program for physical education that examines wellness from the viewpoints of health, fitness, and athletic performance. Designed for students ages 11 to 18, Heart Education incorporates key aspects of the middle school and high school texts of Healthy Hearts in the Zone with the most current information on training and technology.
Heart Education’s 10-step program provides a series of modules with lesson plans, making it simple to present and easy to learn. The program gets students using heart monitors from the start, letting them experience the rush of seeing their heart rate display. Students will learn functions of heart monitoring, how to apply them based on individual heart rate data, and how to set realistic physical activity goals. Teachers and students can choose from over 20 health and fitness workouts and apply strategies for athletic performance training using heart zones.
Heart Education also tackles emotional fitness with structured plans to reduce stress, build positive connections with others, and contribute to a stable emotional outlook throughout the turbulent adolescent years. Also featured are lessons incorporating heart zones concepts into popular outdoor recreation activities such as adventure racing, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, geocaching, and orienteering.
This guidebook features
• a lesson plan finder for easy reference to each lesson and its accompanying student materials;
• a web resource containing all worksheets, station cards, training logs, and other forms for easy printing;
• additional resources including a hardware guide for heart rate monitors, troubleshooting tips, and a series of circuit training stations for reassessment; and
• recommended health assessments that support the strategies of the Heart Zone Training (HZT) system.
Although some forms of technology may be viewed as contributing to an overall decline in physical activity, heart rate monitoring technology can provide a way to empower students to reach their personal health and fitness goals. Heart Education: Strategies, Lessons, Science, and Technology for Cardiovascular Fitness can help you maximize students’ activity time with appealing, technology-based tools and scientifically sound strategies to positively affect their cardiovascular fitness.
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Cardio Strength Training (lesson plan) 134-135 cardiovascular disease (CVD) 86 cardiovascular monitor equipment 196t cardiovascular versus cardiorespiratory fitness 202 Carlson, R. 156 carotid artery 8 ceiling 45, 97 chair test 16 chest strap checking 4, 5, 198 description of 2f erratic heart rate displays and 29 choosing happiness explanation of 162-163 lesson plan 168-169 climber’s monitor 196t coaches, monitors used by 195 color-coding system for workouts 99-100 compassion
determine their own MHRs and then use those values to set their own unique heart zones. Heart zones are explained more fully in module 4. From these various assessments of exercise intensity, the simplest and most accurate method of assessment, particularly in a school-based program, is the time-in-zone method. Indeed, time in zone is the core of HZE. Some monitors have an audible or visual alarm that sounds or flashes when the user is exercising above or below the programmed zone. Be sure to
rate changes from week to week. Improved heart rate values indicate a positive adaptation to the exercise stress. OUTCOMES Students will monitor their individual adaptations to exercise stress in a quantifiable and meaningful way by doing the following: • Learning to make various heart rate assessments • Measuring changes in heart rate as a result of adaptations to their individual programs • Comparing their fitness improvements to the average improvement of the class MATERIALS •
exercise is any continuous exercise at a constant exercise intensity. The 10-Minute Distance Traveled Workout can be used as a pre- and post-assessment to determine each student’s fitness level. Have them use a fixed heart rate calculation of 80 percent of their MHR. OUTCOME Students will demonstrate changes in their fitness levels. MATERIALS • One heart rate monitor per student • Timing device • Accurately measured distance course (e.g., track) • 10-Minute Distance Traveled
the heart’s response to chemical and neural changes produced by an external stimulus. The cardiovascular control center for the body is located in the brain’s ventrolateral medulla. Here heart rate slows if activated by the cardio-inhibitory center in the medulla; it speeds up if activated by the cardio accelerator. From the ventrolateral medulla, the two channels of the autonomic nervous system originate: the sympathetic and parasympathetic components (figure B.3). The sympathetic components