Body and rest
Ready when: A practice session with a purpose (b1) done.
What you are learning
Looking after the body around play: breaks and movement between sessions, sitting well, eating and sleeping on time. Players who rest and move play better and stay healthy.
Words on this card Session, Round
- Session
- One block of practice or play, with a start and an end time.
- Round
- A round is one part of a game; a match is the whole contest, which may be several rounds or games.
Set up
None; use the workonfitness.com link for movement.
Weather: any weather
Show it first for the one teaching
- Sit at the screen: feet flat, back against the chair, screen at eye level.
- Stand up, walk to a window and look at something far away.
- Agree when breaks happen: between every round or game.
Your part while they practise
Keep the routine.
Step by step
- A break with movement between sessions.
- A posture check when sitting back down.
- Food and sleep at the usual times, before games.
How much: 1 break between sessions 5 min a session 3 days a week
Say one thing Pick one line from "What you will see" for today and say only that.
The game: Break bingo
A card of break activities; tick one each break and complete a line.
Who plays: the child against their own best; the family can play too.
How to play, turn by turn
- Turns
- Draw a 3 by 3 grid with breaks: stand and stretch, walk round the house, a glass of water, look out of the window, a workonfitness.com movement, and so on
- At each break, do one and tick it
- A full line of 3 is a bingo
- Fair play
- The grown-up takes breaks from their own screen too.
- Points
- 1 point for each break taken on time; 3 points for each bingo line.
- Fouls
- No point for that break
- Skipping the break to keep playing
- A break spent on another screen
- Winning
- Beat your best in a week.
- 4 points for 1 star
- 8 points for 2 stars
- 12 points for 3 stars
Easier or harder
One break.
A fixed pattern of breaks.
What you will see, and what to say
- the child sits for hours
Stand and stretch
Up between every game. - the child skips meals
Food first
Eat, then play.
Self-check
The child takes the agreed breaks on 5 of 6 sessions.
Stop and get a coach when
Wrist, neck or eye strain; see a doctor.
Fitness for this
Warm up first: how to warm up, at workonfitness.com. For strength and stretching, its exercise library shows each exercise step by step, with an easier version.
This card trains physical preparation, recovery.
Intermediate is done when the child names one change that improved a result in 3 sessions in a row.
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