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If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Train It

Two athletes train the same hours a week. Why does only one improve? The two families of fitness with all eleven components named; the principles of training, with what a warm up and a cool down each do and why the DfE names both; and measurement done properly, because a fitness test is only worth running if it is valid, reliable and specific to the sport. A table gives a standard test for each component: Cooper run, sit-and-reach, Illinois agility, vertical jump, 30-metre sprint, ruler drop. A drawn figure sets the training zones as percentages of a stated maximum heart rate, so changing the maximum moves every boundary with it. Eleven terms to define, a worked heart-rate calculation, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

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One landscape A4 page on one part of the GCSE Physical Education course, anchored to the DfE’s own subject content (DFE-00697-2014) and Ofqual’s subject level conditions (Ofqual/21/6724) rather than a board’s paraphrase, so it holds whichever specification a department follows. It carries the two families of fitness, the principles of training, warm up and cool down, how fitness is measured and what makes a test worth running, and the DfE’s own data sequence — then the vocabulary, a worked heart-rate calculation, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

The components of fitness and the principles of training are standard sport-science vocabulary, not a DfE list, and the sheet states that outright rather than presenting one board’s set as the only correct one. Nothing is reproduced from a past paper, a textbook or a specification.

Sold by subject: all four Physical Education sheets for one price. A knowledge organiser stores a unit and is revised from afterwards; this is meant to be on the table while the lesson is happening.

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The DfE GCSE physical education subject content (DFE-00697-2014) and Ofqual’s subject level conditions (Ofqual/21/6724), quoted; no board’s specification, mark scheme or past paper. Every quotation on the sheet is checked word for word against the document it cites
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PE teachers. On the desk during the lesson, not a student revision guide
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One landscape A4 sheet · 8 sections

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01 Fitness is two families, not one list
02 Training has principles, and they have names
03 Measure it, then actually read it
04 One test for each component — standard tests, not a DfE list
05 Read a heart-rate training zone from the data
06 Glossary
07 Use this mat
08 Common misconceptions
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