How to teach students the importance of building their Endurance Equipment and Software Project Danielle Magazzu

Endurance: Why is this Important?  Endurance makes your heart stronger  Your heart is the most important muscle in your body  Building your heart will increase oxygen flow.  There for enhancing your overall health!

Goal Building kids endurance by different varieties of activities. For students overall health to increase.

Stopwatch  To measure their time when running.  Increase distance and decrease time for students when running.  When in class we can go outside for a run and use the stopwatch measure our time it took to run a certain distance.  Overall we want the time to decrease.

Where to buy: STOPWATCH $12.99 – Target $8.90 – Amazon Stopwatch-Black/dp/B001QTLN28 Stopwatch-Black/dp/B001QTLN28

Pedometer  Measure the amount of steps taken  Students will wear them around when working out  Students will be able to see how many steps they take.  This will allow students to physically see improvement over time.

Where to buy: Pedometers $12.75 – Amazon Pedometer/dp/B0007NP5RS/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid= &sr=8-15&keywords=best+pedometer $7.34 – Target

Heart Rate Monitors  Gives students the ability to see their own heart rate  Pushes them to work harder  Be able to see the increase in heart rate  Watching out for danger zones

Where to Buy: HR Monitors  $35.00 – Amazon Fitness/b?ie=UTF8&node=  $ – Dicks Sporting Goods

Step Machine  Combination of endurance and strength training.  Each step or repetition causes your muscles to contract and then relax.  Causes muscles to adapt to the resistance  Will cause heart rate to increase

Where to buy: Step Machine  $60.00 – $3,000 – Amazon

Fitness gram Pacer Test  used to estimate a persons VO 2 max (maximum oxygen uptake)  The test involves running continuously between two points that are 20 meters apart from side to side.  These runs are synchronized pre-recorded CD  Increase endurance  Easily used in a gymnasium

Where to buy: Fitness Gram Pacer Test Equiptment: CD:  $ Human Kinetics meter-pacer-test-cd1?associate=5665&isbn= CD Player:  $ – Walmart System/

Conclusion  I believe that these all will benefit the students  Although some may be a little expensive we want our students to be healthy and active  These products can be used over and over  Students will enjoy using, while also improve themselves from these products