High intensity exercises reduce CVD risk factors better than aerobic activities in adolescent youth (study)

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Some questions for you:

• Do you provide activities that are of high intensity or do we primarily focus on moderate levels of activity?
• How might you take advantage of this new study and create more high intensity activities?
• How will you deal with the fact that children do not have high cardiovascular fitness levels and then you're asking them to work extra hard? 
• Do you know how the body (especially youth) responds to movement and the bioenergetics involved in exercise?  
• Have you taken EXS 387, EXS 397 prior to student teaching?  
• Do you think it's important to have this knowledge and skill set in human movement to be a great and transformative educator?

This article examines the effects of brief, intense exercise in comparison with traditional endurance exercise on both novel and traditional markers of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in youth.


The effects of time and intensity of exercise on novel and established markers of CVD in adolescent youth - Buchan - 2011 - American Journal of Human Biology


DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.21166


Related articles

• Better a sprint than a marathon: Brief intense exercise better than endurance training for CVD (physorg.com)
• Short, intense exercise can also improve heart health: study (canada.com)
• A quick sprint beats a long run when it comes to your health (dailymail.co.uk)

PE the Naperville Way

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Fitspott will be collaborating with me and you to see how Fitspott might be used by physical educators. This will be great opportunity for you to get in on something new from the ground up. and will be just one of many real-life practical opportunities that you'll have. Please take advantage of it and really strive to be the best, most up-to-date teacher in your school, district, state, and country. No one will ever give you anything except maybe an opportunity, what you do with it is up to you.